CASE STUDY
Thames Valley University needed to keep connected
to its New Media. Radio and Music Technology facilities at the world famous Ealing Studios in West London - but it had to have a fast, reliable, high band
width, cost-effective solution. Trimble-FSO, laserbased FSO links were employed to meet this need.
High Bandwidth
As part of its on going site-support, the Information
Services Department within Thames Valley University (TVU), one of the UK’s largest education providers, required a 1000Mbps link for its facilities at
Ealing Studios.
About Thames Valley University
From 1 January 2004 Thames Valley University
merged with Reading College. With 45,000 students,
TVU is now one of the largest Further Education and
Higher Education providers in the Europe. Committed
to providing high quality, up-to-date and relevant
vocational education, the University is the largest
single source of skilled and qualified people for employers in the Thames Valley and West London. The
University offers a wide range of courses at further
education, undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels. TVU specialises in providing services for
employers, including tailor-made short courses, company training schemes and the facility to accredit incompany training programmes.
www.tvu.ac.uk
About AzteQ Solutions
AzteQ Solutions specialises in the provision and project management of highly competent IT resource, for
the installation of IT hardware such as EPoS and EFTPoS terminals with associated ancillaries, as well as
PC’s, printers, servers and software. Furthermore,
Multi Media Transmission
sion, at 1000 Mbps, is achieved utilising two laser
heads, located at each site, which have a clear line of
sight between them. Typical Trimble-FSO applications also include replacement of leased lines, alternatives to fibre, interconnection in campus or industrial environments, temporary installations, VoIP
applications and disaster recovery.
A high bandwidth data transmission link was required for servicing the University’s facilities at the
Studios. Uniquely the department needs cover data
networking as well as the transmission of media
files, JPEGS, MPEGS, video and multi-media. In looking for an effective solution, TVU employed the services of AzteQ Solutions. AzteQ recommended and After the successful installation, Chris Lovegrove, the
installed a Trimble-FSO link between one of the main Technical Services Manager for the Information
university buildings and at the Studios, located ap- Services Department, stated that he was
proximately 350m away. Each Trimble-FSO link used
for this data connectivity, provides reliable and seVery pleased with the systems percure laser-based free space optical transmission, and
depending on the link installed can be effective up to formance”
distances of 6km.Full duplex wire speed transmis-
“
Azteq is expert in the supply and installation of electrical and network cabling solutions, including Trimble
-FSO installs. Installations are normally provided as
part of a rollout project or as part of an on-going site
support service.
About Trimble-FSO
Trimble-FSO was
founded in 1999
and is a developer
and manufacturer
of laser-based, free
-space
optical
(FSO) communications equipment. Since its inception
in Trimble in 2014 the company has become a truly
international enterprise with worldwide sales and
marketing activities, advanced research and development and high production capacity.
Trimble-FSO offers broadband, point to point connectivity enabling wireless networking over and above
your current infrastructure. The Trimble-FSO technology gives you high security, scalability and superior
price to performance value and has been successfully
deployed for a wide range of applications across
sectors diverse as SP’s, ISP’s, Health, Education, Finance, Retail, and Industry.
Though best known for GPS technology, Trimble
integrates a wide range of positioning technologies
including GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies
with application software, wireless communications,
and services to provide complete commercial solutions. Its integrated solutions allow customers to
collect, manage and analyze complex information
faster and easier, making them more productive,
efficient and profitable.
Contact Trimble-FSO
[email protected]
www.trimble-fso.com