Technical Bulletin
™
The Challenge
Given their rapid expansion, Actelion had to increase their data centre capacity very
quickly to service the business needs and be future ready. The data centre in the
companyʼs headquarters in Allschwill couldnʼt offer requisite power and space, so the
company decided to outsource the data centre to the IWB Telehouse in Basel. IWB
was a “green field” data centre. In order to keep pace with growth and minimise
disruption to the companyʼs IT services, the change from Allschwil to Basel had to be
made within a two week time frame.
Why
PANDUIT
?
The pre-terminated
QUICKNET
™ copper and fibre cabling solutions from
PANDUIT
attracted Actelionʼs attention because they facilitated quick deployment. Further
products such as the
NET-ACCESS
™ cabinets offered access for easy moves, adds
and changes (MACs).
The new data centre also had to meet Actelionʼs stringent demands to be future
ready and have high uptime and reliability. The initial installation was Phase 1 of a
planned, long term project of staggered upgrades; the schedule for which would be
dictated by the growing businessʼ needs. The
PANDUIT
solution could fulfill these
needs and offer the flexibility for future growth that Actelion needed. Having
recognised this, Actelion invited
PANDUIT
to work on the installation.
The
PANDUIT
Solution
This solution specifically met the needs of fast installation through the use of the
QUICKNET
™ range: pre-terminated copper and fibre cabling solutions which included
cassettes and pre-terminated cable trunks. Cassettes are pre-terminated in a
controlled factory environment meaning that consistent network performance is
provided while reducing installation time and on-site waste as compared to field-
terminated installations.
Actelion also wanted easy access to cabling in order to cope with future data centre
growth as well as routine data centre and cabling maintenance. To meet this need
PANDUIT
consultants incorporated an overhead cable management system plus the
NET
-A
CCESS
™ cabinet into the solution. The cabinetʼs dual hinged doors give superior
accessibility to the cable pathway. The modular design incorporates flexibility for
future network expansions resulting in greater network uptime, plus easier moves,
adds and changes for the lowest total cost of ownership.