We appreciate the key leverage points in construction: real-time communications, collaboration and resource-sharing across widely dispersed and often temporary sites, as well as dramatic reductions in exposure to site theft.

Team collaboration: Out of site isn’t out of mind

Can teams and processes work across multiple sites? Yes, we make that possible  by bringing fast, affordable bandwidth to every site and integrating site workers seamlessly into the big picture. IPVPN and Ethernet VPN, with broadband access and Class of Service (CoS) prioritisation, can make every site you own part of the corporate network, giving your people on site access to company information and services. You can also add applications like IP Voice, which provides all the voice connections you need on site, without requiring separate voice circuits.

Resource sharing: Bringing businesses together

Is it possible to have separate businesses sharing expensive resources? Yes. Our solutions fit perfectly with the emerging trend for construction businesses to join forces and deliver projects together. Now, multiple, company-specific, secure networks can be operated simultaneously over a single, shared, physical network, bringing significant savings.

Our Site-to-Site Connectivity brings it all together, with solutions that facilitate information sharing and collaboration. Multiple, secure virtual networks can run over a single physical infrastructure. IP-based products, like IP Voice, can bring further efficiencies and cost reductions by making all inter-group calls free.

Security: Making asset management affordable

Can we make asset tracking easier and cheaper? Yes, by, allowing sophisticated IP-based security applications to run over the same converged network that handles your data and voice traffic.

RFID tags monitor movements of key assets, enabling accurate tracking and audits, while IP CCTV cameras keep a watchful eye across all your sites, 24/7. The result is greater asset control, lower insurance costs, higher productivity and less downtime.

Within our LAN Solutions offering, we can design onsite networks that include technologies like microcell mobile base stations, RFID systems, intelligent voice routing, Class of Service (CoS) prioritisation and IP CCTV. By running these applications over existing IPVPN and Ethernet VPN networks, you do away with the need for building separate security networks.

Security: Keeping valuable assets off site

Can you cut site losses by half? Very possibly, if you start by minimising the value of your construction site inventory. Our solutions can pipe low cost, high bandwidth connections into your sites, enabling you to deploy ‘thin clients’ or low-spec PCs which are unattractive to thieves. You don’t lose your vital operational data either, because it’s stored off site.

Site-to-Site Connectivity services offer affordable temporary connections to construction sites. These connections will have the performance characteristics you need to run multiple applications like Citrix and IP Voice, so your site offices will have all the high technology capabilities of a permanent office, but all the data and intelligence will be stored at your head office.