Industries

Education Network Requirements

For schools, ease of use is a major concern. Typically there is not a team of ICT staff onsite and the school has to support an increasing workload of ICT requirements. Simplicity in delivery, support and security are of major importance.

Universities and campuses often want internal and external Wi-Fi coverage: students want the freedom to study in outside settings and study pods are increasingly common in the University Campus setting.

Enterprise Requirements

Enterprise networking customers need a network to support their business. Key requirements are flexibility, resilience, cost effectiveness and manageability. Wi-Fi is a big component of the enterprise network with reliable wireless is now critically important – coupled with identify services and BYOD / Guest access to allow for staff to bring their own devices and work from different office locations.

Mining and Mining Camps: Network Overview

Mines need wide area communications, which include mesh and over wireless technologies. The industrial and processing complexes have a lot of switching requirements, often connecting to process control equipment and require low latency connections.

Mining camp networks are based around delivering services to the mine workers – this is typically television and video services, internet and voice telephony. The key component in a mine camp is “Netflix-Grade” Wi-Fi.

Retail and Store Requirements

Store and shopping centre operations fall into a number of camps. EFTPOS and bar code scanners for retailing and stock control and the most common staff centric networking requirements.

The back end network has to support security, cameras, data storage and of course the shopper experience.

In addition, retail has some regulatory requirements. Ensuring financial transactions and data are secure is one aspect, but the most basic requirements are ensuring security and cleanliness of the facility.

Healthcare and clinical demands the highest in network delivery.

High network up time is a given, but network security, segregation of traffic and appropriate QoS treatment of differing levels of network traffic are all important.

Hospital networks need to support many services and equipment types, be well documented, well managed and maintained. A good outcome for clinical networks is minimum intervention – the network should be stable, centrally controlled and offer full 802.1X services to control which clients and users can connect.

Hospitality and Hotels have some diverse network requirements.

Whether a convention centre, hotel, entertainment centre or theatre, there is one central requirement: ensure guest satisfaction.

Behind the scenes hospitality and hotels have to support operations. Systems can be diverse from checking in guests, issuing tickets to a show, through to top end AV systems in a convention centre. A multi function network to support front and back of house operations is required.

Stadiums and venues require specific network designs.

Wi-Fi is predominant and typically the stadiums and venues alike require a high density Wi-Fi design to support large numbers of guests.

Stadiums and Venues have front and back of house requirement. Front of house is all about the guest experience – this typically includes Wi-Fi, but could also mean wayfinding and in-seat ordering via applications.

Back of house means everything it takes to run the site – from EFTPOS, staff communication, security and Audio Visual.

Modern Warehouses need Networking

Warehouses need good Wi-Fi. Increasingly warehouses must have the best quality in Wi-Fi – there’s a range of devices that are in use from Wi-Fi phones, stock pick applications, bar code scanners and location tracking technologies.

Networks in warehouses have to be robust. Industrial switching and wireless ensure that warehouses can offer the highest uptimes, with equipment specially designed for the environment to offer longevity and reliability.