The Problem:
The successful and rapidly expanding company had committed to a move to more spacious offices in a nearby location, and in addition to moving human resources and office furniture, provision for computer connectivity had to be made.

The company had a large legacy document-retrieval system with records of some 54,000 contractors and consultants, which required conversion over a predicted 6-9 month period to a more modern Windows-based Year-2000-compliant system. With several subsidiary offices in the UK connected by leased-line ISDN services, the obvious choice was to leave the old system in-situ, install the new system in the new building to run in parallel and allow transfer of the full database and other hardware - but how could the building-to-building connectivity be provided?

Given the requirement to bridge the systems using a common 10Mbps Ethernet backbone, the traditional choices of using converters to a 2Mbps leased-line 'Megastream' service would have been expensive, requiring a minimum 1 year contract and could have upset system performance due to reduced data throughput; the alternative of a custom fixed-cabling solution was not feasible due to lack of access caused by site layout and land ownership issues.

The Solution:
For Myriad, a CableFree Solution proved the perfect choice, providing a highly-reliable line-of-sight connection with no interference, licensing or bandwidth limitations with a single day to install, offering conventional RJ45 cable connection to the Ethernet hubs. An extensible leasing package was offered, proving significantly more cost-effective than traditional options, some of which would have also provided inferior performance .

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"Simply fit it and forget it" - Simon Roberts, IT manager, Myriad Computer Services