Education
Engagement
Results
1,900
Access points
Across 34 buildings
8 wks
Delivery window
Single summer vacation
6×
Lecture hall capacity
Against the previous design
100%
Spaces validated
At modelled occupancy
The challenge
The existing wireless had been specified on coverage rather than capacity, so it worked perfectly in an empty building and collapsed in a full lecture theatre. The entire replacement had to happen between the end of resits and the start of term — a hard eight-week window across 34 buildings, several of them listed.
The approach
Surveyed with capacity modelling based on timetabled occupancy rather than floor area, which changed AP counts substantially in teaching spaces.
Agreed heritage-compliant mounting and containment with the estates team for six listed buildings before ordering anything.
Ran four parallel installation teams on a building-per-week cadence, with validation surveys completed before each team moved on.
Migrated authentication to certificate-based 802.1X with eduroam federation, tested with a 400-student pilot cohort in week three.
Completed post-deployment validation surveys in every teaching space at modelled occupancy before term started.
Services used
Infrastructure
Design, installation and certification of structured cabling, comms rooms and campus networks — delivered to standard, on a plan.
Operations
Multi-site hardware and software rollout programmes run to a fixed schedule with per-site sign-off and consolidated reporting.
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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