Healthcare & Life Sciences
Engagement
Results
0
Clinical incidents
Across 140 change windows
100%
Links certified
Fluke tested and documented
4
Buildings modernised
While fully operational
16 yr
Legacy core retired
Replaced with a 25-year warranted system
The challenge
The trust's core network was running on switches sixteen years old, in comms rooms where nobody could say with confidence which cable served which ward. Clinical systems could not tolerate unplanned downtime, and there was no natural maintenance window in a hospital that never closes. Medical devices sat on the same flat network as general IT.
The approach
Mapped every live link physically before touching anything, producing the first accurate port map the trust had held in a decade.
Agreed 90-minute change windows ward by ward with clinical leads, each rehearsed against a rollback plan with a hard abort time.
Installed a parallel Cat6A and fibre infrastructure alongside the live estate, then migrated services link by link rather than cutting over wholesale.
Segmented unpatched medical devices onto isolated VLANs with controlled routing, without disturbing clinical workflow.
Handed over Fluke certification for every link, as-built drawings and a labelled patching schedule matched to the CMDB.
The comms room hand-over pack was better documented than anything our previous integrator produced in six years. Every port labelled, every link certified, drawings that matched reality.
Services used
Infrastructure
Design, installation and certification of structured cabling, comms rooms and campus networks — delivered to standard, on a plan.
Infrastructure
Firewall, SD-WAN, zero-trust and endpoint security design and operation, mapped to the framework your auditors actually use.
More work
Replacing end-of-life point-of-sale and branch networking across 940 stores in fourteen months, without closing a single store for a day.
940
Sites completed
A workload-by-workload disposition assessment that stopped two of three planned migrations and cut projected three-year run cost by 31%.
31%
Three-year cost reduction
Client identity is withheld under the confidentiality terms of the engagement. Figures are as reported at programme close and can be substantiated under NDA on request.
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