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As one of the leading science parks in the UK, Southampton
Science Park continues to invest in cutting edge technology in order to stay
ahead of the game. That is why we have now teamed with Vostron, a
fast-rising star of the telecommunications sector and a tenant at the
Science Park. Together, we will be providing sophisticated broadband and
telephony services, at competitive prices, to companies on site.
Kenneth Dibben House, the Science Park's latest building
is the first to benefit from the full range of voice and data services, but
all services are being progressively rolled out to the rest of the Science
Park.
We're creating our own diversely-routed duct network
throughout the site to provide extremely reliable internet access. Because
any fault leads automatically to re-routing through an alternative intact
cable, this network gives much greater assurance of continuity of service.
These routes back directly into a national diversely-routed network,
ensuring that all traffic has spare routes to London Docklands and thus the
internet.
Within Kenneth Dibben House, which is designed on a unit
plan of 500ft2, all units have their own Cat 6 cabling network, which is
likely to allow bandwidth of 10 Gbps in the future. This network links back
to a local patch panel under the control of an individual tenant giving
greater protection against interference and interruption. There are also
ample voice/data sockets located throughout each unit. "In IP telephony,
messages are sent using Internet Protocol - a language for handling
messages. Some IP telephony systems travel over the internet but aren't
suitable for business use. For calls made on the science park campus,
services do not route over the public internet and are thus much more
reliable - this architecture enables us to guarantee a high level of
security as well as better functionality and flexibility."
A wide variety of bandwidth options is provided allowing
companies to buy the level of service they need. Bandwidth can be provided
in synchronous multiples of 0.5 Mbps uncontended or with a contention ratio
of 5:1, ie potentially shared between 5 users. In our multi-occupancy
buildings we also offer an ADSL option.
Our new IP (Internet Protocol) telephony system is now
operating in Kenneth Dibben House but can also be provided to tenants in all
other Science Park buildings. The basic offer includes call hold, call park,
call transfer, call pick-up and music on hold but this offer can be extended
to include other services, on a pick and mix basis, such as hunt groups,
voicemail, call logging, call recording, conference calling and public
number control. A variety of handsets is offered with different levels of
functionality, and calls can be routed over the Internet to home offices or
external office locations. As with broadband provision, our aim is to
provide a competitive telephony service designed to meet the needs of
tenants. Emergency 999 calls are supported by the system, and the Private
Branch Exchange is located on site to ensure the highest quality service is
provided to all users.
Our aspirations do not stop with broadband and IP
telephony. We plan to open a data centre where companies can store and
manipulate very large volumes of data or protect business-critical data at
an exceptionally high level of security. This location will be kept secure
from fire, burglary, malicious damage, loss of power, loss of connectivity
to the internet. It will also benefit from our emergency power supply,
double-routed public power supply and redundant routing to the outside
world. We also plan to offer an integrated fixed line/mobile service from
the same handset.
Tenants of Southampton Science Park can be assured that in
future the services on offer will incorporate the best of available
technologies at affordable prices. |
