Networking Solutions
Wifi infrastructure, Network Analysis and Security

The European Tour

Following the supply of the WiFi network using Xirrus equipment for The Ryder Cup at Gleneagles our engineers support the major golf tournaments on the tour using this kit.

– BMW Championship (Wentworth)

– Irish Open

– Scottish Open

– British Masters and Dubai (DP World Championship).

We are in the 2nd year of a long term agreement contract as official suppliers of the WiFi for the British Masters tournament.
This year AJP Solutions will be official suppliers to the 2016 British Masters Supported by Sky Sports at The Grove Golf Club, Hertfordshire.

The British Masters is a professional golf tournament. It was founded in 1946 as the Dunlop Masters and was held every year up to 2008, except for 1984. Dunlop's sponsorship ended in 1982, and the name sponsor changed frequently thereafter, with the word "British" usually also in the tournament's official name.

Hay Plc

Supplied network analysis equipment, based upon specific requirements.

Due to the nature of this project we cannot go into full details here. If you would like to know more please contact us for information of how we helped.

Global recruitment services firm.

Emirates Stadium

Supplied network analysis equipment, based upon specific requirements.

Due to the nature of this project we cannot go into full details here. If you would like to know more please contact us for information of how we helped.

The Emirates Stadium is a football stadium in Holloway, London, England, and the home of Arsenal Football Club. With a capacity of 60,260, the Emirates is the third-largest football stadium in England after Wembley and Old Trafford.

Jewish Free School

School profile

JFS was founded in 1732 and is one of the oldest Jewish institutions in the world. The school relocated to a PFI purpose built 23 acre site in Kenton in 2002 and has the capacity to facilitate over 2000 students. It is the largest Jewish School in Europe. JFS is consistently one of the top totally non-selective Comprehensive Schools in the country at ‘A’ Level. They have received the ‘NACE’ Challenge Award for Gifted and Talented provision, as well as awards for Investors in People and Investors in Careers.

The Vision

The school being forward thinking and dynamic in its vision identified the need to facilitate not only a robust, but intelligent WiFi solution. The brief was to allow for multiple devices either being curriculum based or personnel (BYOD) to be able to connect either to the schools internal services or directly out to the internet as a guest connection. It was essential that not only the school had full estate coverage, but also the chosen solution had the capacity to facilitate as many usable connections as existing technology allows for.    

Technical situation

The schools infrastructure was updated in 2012. At the core is a 10GB backbone linking all the internal services in a VM environment with NAS. All switches are connected by fibre with fully managed gigabyte connections out to the end users. Multiple VLANs control the internal traffic and a 100MB lease line out to the internet. Bottle necks were identified and overcome prior to the solution implementation.

Solution

After a great deal of research based on functionality, manageability and cost of ownership. The SLT & ICT Team chose the vender Xirrus to carry out a phased implementation. Xirrus carried out a survey of the site and then talked our team through the survey utilising Heat Maps. This allowed us to segment our estate based on identified priorities and a phased project plan was established. The project was scheduled over a two year period with the majority of work being carried out in school holidays. The supplier AJP Solutions Ltd project managed all the elements of the implementation including infrastructure cabling, power requirements, supplier coordination, and installation and licensing of the 95 arrays. Training of staff was carried out on an agreed ad hoc basis over the two year project.

Benefits

The Schools ICT team are constantly monitoring by utilising the Xirrus Management System- Enterprise Console; this has been found to be a comprehensive and rich tool enabling the department to quickly identify problems across the solution. The simplicity of the dashboard allows for our operators to immediately respond to alerts within the environment. AJP Solutions have been a major part of the schools vision, and must be seen as a benefit of the solution. The costing of the project was agreed at the start, and not changed throughout. This was imperative as the budget could not be escalated; this was agreed not only with AJP Solutions but backed by the manufacture Xirrus. The internal knowledge, guidance, advice and partnering with AJP have enabled the success of the project. 

Reference:

Simon Blayney Tel: 07984 676585
ICT Manager for JFS School 2014-2015