Building Business for Customers

At EXS we are justly proud of our achievements and continue to have an extensive exposure to a diverse range of networking projects, installing many types of systems for Schools, Colleges, Universities, NHS Trusts, Manufacturing and Commercial establishments

Here is just a sample selection of contracts awarded to EXS, either through competitive tender, or from existing business relationships:

Cambridge Regional College (Single Site Project);

Awarded to EXS by Marriot Construction via tender process. The 'single site' project sees the Kings Hedges campus undergo significant expansion and refurbishment including two new buildings and major refurbishment to the Reception and Sports Hall facilities. Construction work on the campus will start in April 2008 and is due for completion in April 2009. EXS will provide campus fibre backbones to new outlying buildings and a total expansion of Category 5e network service outlets in excess of 1700 points. The preferred cabling system vendor will be "Nexans UK ". EXS will also provide new Core switch hardware and design and install a campus wide wireless LAN, using HP Procurve networking equipment and management software.

Newnham College Cambridge;

Design and Installation of new campus wide fibre optic backbone infrastructure with new gigabit compliant links to no less than fourteen buildings. Alongside this work EXS engineers had to incorporate significant rationalisation and relocation of existing server / comms rooms as part of the new design. EXS have further been contracted to design, supply and install new HP Procurve switch technologies which are to be phased in during early 2008. These will replace legacy technology and provide the necessary bandwidth for the college's future requirements.

Corpus Christi Cambridge, New Library;

Appointed through successful M&E contractor to provide new Category 5e structured cabling system consisting in excess of 200 service outlets to new library building, together with associated telecoms and fibre optic links back to main college network.

Peterborough Regional College;

Appointed through formal tender process to provide new IT Network cabling at the college campus on an ongoing basis for 12 months possibly 2 years. The college have an ongoing requirement for cabling services from regular moves, changes and refurbishments; and have chosen EXS as a preferred supplier to support the facilities department in providing these services within budget and on time.

Barnardos, NW10 London;

Appointed through successful M&E contractor to provide new Category 5e cabling infrastructure for this new family centre in North London.

MBM Group, Boston Lincolnshire;

EXS were chosen to provide high speed non-line of site Motorola PTP600 wireless solution for their two sites near Boston, Lincs. This was to replace an older antiquated system which was proving to be unreliable. The new Motorola system met all expectations and now provides their business with a reliable and robust communications link with far greater throughput than before between these locations.

The Johnson Publishing Group;

Appointed through existing business relationship to upgrade existing infrastructure with additional Category 5e cabling and new communications cabinets, at circa 20 sites within the eastern region, in preparation for Voice over IP integration.

Cambridge Regional College;

Awarded via successful M&E contractor, to provide extended IT Infrastructure for new SMARTLIFE construction project on the campus, using "Nexans " Structured Cabling System. Smartlife is an innovative pilot project led by Cambridgeshire county council to address the challenge of housing delivery through affordability and sustainability and skills/capacity shortages in growth areas. The project was completed in March 2006.

Grantham College;

Completed contract to provide extended IT Infrastructure for new Visual Arts building, using "Nexans" Structured Cabling system consisting of Category 5e service outlets, Multimode fibre backbones and telecoms extension for voice services. The college also employed new Gigabit switching technology throughout the campus using HP5300 and HP4100 series core switches. EXS provided the hardware together with Design and Installation services. The project was completed on time and within the budget. .

Bourne Grammar School, Lincolnshire;

Design and Installation of new campus wide wireless network using 'Proxim' equipment... Incorporating new school building extension for which EXS were contracted to install Category 5e Structured Cabling System, Gigabit Fibre Backbone and Voice services. HP Procurve networking switches were supplied and commissioned by EXS to provide the necessary bandwidth requirements.

Queen Margaret’s School, York;

Awarded contract to install complete campus wide wireless network infrastructure for student internet access and e-mail facilities.

Clarkson Hill Group, Wisbech;

Designed and implementation of new virtual private network between head office in Wisbech and remote branches in Plymouth, Birmingham, Coalville and Newport Gwent using Intylink VPN managed services.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust;

Major upgrade to Category 5e of the Pilgrim Hospital network infrastructure to all areas of the site including new Fibre Optic backbones to allow NHS staff site wide e-mail services. A major project including relocation of computer room equipment and working in sensitive areas of the hospital. The tender was completed on time and within budget.