The Client
Set in over 230 hectares of parkland, Norwich Research Park (NRP) is a thriving community of over 40 businesses, 3,000 scientists, researchers and clinicians. Many of them are talented graduates from the University of East Anglia (also situated in the park) with degrees and PhDs in computing, mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine and geotechnical sciences.
Norwich Research Park is one of the largest single-site concentrations of research in food, genomics, and health in Europe. The park has a unique mix of four world-leading research institutes, a university and a teaching hospital on the same site, as well as several high growth businesses.
The Challenge
Modern Networks (formerly Bridge Fibre) won the tender process for the contract to become Norwich Research Park’s wholesale IT infrastructure provider.
The Solution
As part of this role, consultancy was undertaken in the early stages that included reviewing and modifying the proposed duct infrastructure for the masterplan as well as and cabling specification. We were involved in all aspects of the design and fit out of the new Centrum building. We also helped to design the campus wireless wide area network (WAN) which enables secure, private and guest access across the park. As NRP expands with new buildings we are involved in ensuring that each building is properly connected into the duct and services infrastructure to ensure maximum reuse and minimal replication of work that has already been done. NRP’s financial model (developed by Bridge Fibre) is used for the reporting of all services and tracking of capital investments.
Advantages of WAN include:
- Increase efficiency.
- Easy of communication.
- Large network cover.
- Share information over the large area.
- Message can be sent very quickly to anyone else on the network.
- It supports the global market and global business.
- Centralized IT infrastructure.
- Boost your privacy.
