Nationwide improves business agility with future-proofed cabling infrastructure

Customer challenge
To operate a successful modern building society and offer its members competitive financial services, Nationwide must be able to respond to change. With a cabling backbone that was nearly 15 years old at its main administrative offices, Nationwide needed to migrate to a future-proofed infrastructure that would enable it to take advantage of new applications to help improve cost control and the customer experience.

Computacenter solution
To minimise the risk of deploying more than 1,000 kilometres of cabling to offices housing 6,000 staff, Nationwide turned to Computacenter Services. By creating a temporary overlay network, the joint project team was able to replace the legacy category four infrastructure with a faster and more resilient category six solution, without causing disruption to staff or customer services. The project team also deployed a SMARTPatch intelligent patching solution to improve cable management and simplify moves and changes.

Results
Desktop connectivity has increased from 20 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps, which will enable Nationwide to adopt new technologies that boost competitive advantage. The new cabling infrastructure and SMARTPatch solution have also helped to improve efficiency, business agility and cost control, and enabled the adoption of VOIP, which Nationwide is deploying for all employees based at its administrative offices and call centres.

 

 

 

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