IT Support for the South Road Trade Corridor

The light industrial units, trade suppliers and converted warehouses along South Road and Daws Road present problems an office tower simply never generates. One address routinely holds a warehouse floor, a trade counter at the front and an office above, and the wireless requirements of a racked storage area bear no resemblance to those of a desk. Cabling runs are longer, the environment is harder on equipment, and the device mix is wider.

So the network gets designed for the whole site rather than for the desks nearest the router, and the engineer doing it is as comfortable on a warehouse floor as in a meeting room.

The corridor also carries a dense cluster of e-commerce, logistics and distribution businesses, where an outage does not mean inconvenience, it means stock not moving and orders not shipping. Connectivity and server faults are treated accordingly, and redundancy is built in at the points where a single failure would stop dispatch.