Digital and physical infrastructure

We design and set up smart classrooms, computer labs, language labs and specialised labs as working teaching spaces: display and capture equipment, lab networks, managed endpoints, and the training that gets them used. Campus-wide network and Wi-Fi planning sits with our CIO-as-a-service team; this service builds and runs what the plan calls for.

A single, enclosed rack engineered as a small data centre: compute and storage nodes, network switching, a UPS sized to your load, in-rack or close-coupled cooling, fire detection and suppression, access control and environmental sensors, all monitored remotely. It runs the services that need to be local, such as exam-centre servers, lab systems, campus identity caches and building systems, and replicates backups to the sovereign cloud. It is not a Tier-rated facility and does not replace off-site disaster recovery. A reference specification, power range and lead time are given after the site survey, not as published figures on this page.

Most on-campus failures are electrical or thermal, not digital. We specify the dedicated circuits, earthing, UPS runtime and generator changeover the equipment needs, and the cooling that matches its heat load. Where your building cannot support it safely, we tell you and propose an alternative.

Labs that also serve as examination centres need more than computers: locked-down endpoints, isolated networks, seating plans, CCTV coverage where required, and power that lasts the exam. We design labs to meet the requirements of our examinations service and of the external bodies whose exams you host.

The rack and the cloud work as one system. We connect them over encrypted links, keep identity and directory services in step, and decide service by service where each workload lives, so a link outage degrades the campus gracefully instead of stopping it.

We operate what we install, with remote monitoring, patching, hardware replacement and periodic preventive maintenance. Physical tasks on site are carried out by trained institution staff or a local field engineer, and the division of responsibility is written down before go-live.