Data Services Manager
NHS Grampian
Customer Stories
Significant public sector organizations are already working towards their Transformational Government objectives with the help of network solutions supplied by 3Com.
Preston City Council used 3Com network solutions to meet the UK central government’s mandate to make all municipal services accessible via the Internet by January 2006. Like all municipal services providers, Preston City Council needed a faster, more secure, and more scalable network than its previous infrastructure. Thanks to 3Com’s efficient, cost-effective networking solutions, Preston is rapidly becoming an e-government centre rivalling any major UK municipality:
“We wanted a dependable network infrastructure that could grow easily with us as we continue to expand…."Our 3Com Switch 8800-based network has proved to be a brilliant solution. It's given us a foundation to grow without restraint and will serve us well beyond the five year mark specified by our original procurement brief.".
Allan Orient
ICT Infrastructure Manager
Preston City Council
Graveney School in Tooting, South London, is heavily dependent on connected IT for class work and registration but its wireless network was proving unreliable. The school needed a way to manage the network to it could become a failsafe foundation for its considerable IT infrastructure.
"We can’t predict what hardware and applications we’ll be using in five years’ time, and the network has to be able to deal with whatever we throw at it. We’re satisfied the 3Com product will be able to do that."
Keith Axford
Information Technology Systems Development Manager
Graveney School
NHS Grampian delivers a full range of medical treatment to 500,000 residents in the Grampian area in northern Scotland. Early in 2005, the organisation thoroughly evaluated solutions from Cisco, Enterasys, Nortel, and 3Com for their throughput, scalability, and interoperability with the organisation's existing networking devices. After its due diligence, it selected 3Com systems:
"Standards-based 3Com systems offered high reliability, scalability, functionality, and value. Moreover, we received strong support from 3Com, which helped to design and deploy our new network."
Bob Irvine
Data Services Manager
NHS Grampian
West Midlands Police is the UK’s second largest police force, employing over 11,000 people divided into 21 operational command units (OCUs), each headed by a chief superintendent. WMP has faced the need to regularly enhance its network infrastructure to deliver high performance, high capacity, and high reliability—all against the backdrop of keeping costs down. In order to meet this challenge WMP has worked closely with 3Com Customer Services, most recently to link some of its main sites, one of which houses WMP’s main data server, onto a "virtual computer".
Western Isles Council (Scotland). Western Isles is a chain of islands off the west coast of Scotland. Although many of the 800 Western Isles Council workers and 26,000 residents are located on the largest Isle of Lewis, many others are scattered on remote islands as far as 200 kilometers away. Travel to the Council headquarters office can take a full day and cost more than $500/£265, so the Council looked to a converged network solution to dramatically reduce travel expenditures, increase worker productivity and improve satisfaction with government services.
Angus MacArthur, Western Isles Council Head of IT, was very happy with his 3Com network, but in 2005, he realized he needed not only the reliability that it delivered but also a more scalable, future-proof infrastructure. The Council was planning to roll out video-conferencing services, looking to cut operations costs with Voice over IP (VoIP) and seeking an infrastructure capable of supporting bandwidth-intensive document management and transactional applications for workers and residents.
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