We secure & run complex digital infrastructure

With 51,000 people in the stadium, the demand on the network is such that it’s critical our infrastructure works when we need it to work and it has to be reliable, redundant and available.

It’s the fact that on a sunny day, you can choose to sit outside and work outside. It has revolutionised the campus. It has made every outdoor area of the campus a viable classroom. You can walk from one side of the campus to the other and not drop a Microsoft Teams call. It’s just completely changed the student experience for the better.

600 seats typically means 600 laptops, 600 smart watches and 600 phones; anything up to 1,800 devices connecting to that same segment of the wireless network at any one time. Within a few days of deploying the PoC, it was clear that the network was performing much better than I had expected. It was obvious we had found our solution, and we decided to migrate the rest of the campus as soon as we could.

The ICT network is a critical component to the vessel’s operation. Performance and reliability are key requirements for us. You simply can’t afford to have issues when hundreds of miles offshore. Ease of management is also critical for us. We do not have dedicated network engineers on the crew. Thus, monitoring must be on point and maintenance straightforward.

There’s nothing more frustrating for students than when Wi-Fi drops. Here, it just works. It’s like switching on the lights. We know that students will probably spend more time at their desks here rather than on campus this year, but capacity isn’t an issue for us.