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Metalube is a UK-based manufacturer and exporter of specialist industrial lubricants, with offices in Manchester, Dubai, Mumbai, São Paulo and Shanghai. Due to continued growth, the company recently purchased additional warehousing space in Irlam, Manchester, several hundred metres from its existing premises.
Metalube is a UK-based manufacturer and exporter of specialist industrial lubricants, with offices in Manchester, Dubai, Mumbai, São Paulo and Shanghai. Due to continued growth, the company recently purchased additional warehousing space in Irlam, Manchester, several hundred metres from its existing premises.
It was important to Metalube that systems in the new premises were able to communicate effectively with their existing infrastructure; this necessitated connecting serves at the two sites.
We initially explored a point-to-point wireless connection between the two sites but ruled out this approach due to geographic and infrastructure constraints.
On balance, we also felt that utilising a wired approach would provide a more permanent solution (e.g. wireless connections over such a long distance might suffer from future construction on the site) as well as providing significant advantages in terms of the speed of data transmission when necessary.
We outlined the approach to the Metalube team and, with their agreement, provided an armoured fibre optic cable solution joining the two points directly. Armoured fibre optics consists of a cable surrounded by a steel or aluminium jacket which is then covered with a polyethylene jacket to protect it from moisture and abrasion.
Our solution is a long term, future-proofed and immediately efficient one – and one which could be delivered over a long distance without risk of significant loss of data transfer speed. The fibre optic approach means that Metalube now benefit from transfer speeds of approximately 1gbps.
Metalube also benefit from our managed service provision, meaning that we are able to directly monitor the uptime and data transfer quality of the cable itself as well as user machines and peripherals within the wider organisation and provide pro-active support where necessary.
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