Case Studies
Below are some examples of the work undertaken for PROCOM customers.

THE BRIEF:

Main computer room adjacent to main
site building! Computer services needed in all buildings approx. 800 metres away on the opposite bank of the lake.

Options from competitors included providing a new duct around the lake with cable installed into that, at an estimated cost of £60K; or alternatively fitting a radio link with limited speed at approx.£18K.

Procom’s solution was to install a fibre link across (or rather under) the lake for a cost £6,500. This included employing the services of a diving team to ensure the cable remained on the lake floor and was not damaged.

Procom’s MD Tim Huckle has since got his PADI open water diving certificate and would welcome any similar jobs!

THE BRIEF:

Cougar Industries first used Procom to
organise their communications between
their head office in Berkhamstead and
multiple smaller sites across the country.

Data was shared through dial up option
links, and site numbering schemes were
organised so that calls to other sites
were set up as extension numbers.

Following the events of 2001 Cougar
had to sell off some of their remote sites.
We handled this by arranging for calls to
the old numbers to be redirected into
the main site and the main system was
programmed to show those calls when
they came into the building.

Thus they knew who their Manchester
site clients were for instance before they
even started to talk. For the client it
was simply business as usual. Procom’s
flexible installation not only fulfilled
Cougar’s original requirements, but also
significant and unexpected changes to
the business.

The impacts of 2001 are now a just a
memory for Cougar and they are back
on the up. During the last year we have
re-organised their Internet access and
brought their internet domain names
right up to date.

We have also set up low cost secure
links via the Internet so that from a data
point of view the sites are one. Next we
shall do the same with the telephone.