CASE study KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty Limited 2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261 PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259 Phone: 02 4389 5000 Fax: 02 4388 4499 Help Desk: 1800 801 298 Email: kronehlp@krone.com.au Web: www.krone.com.au Jo No 5514 06/09 Skilled Communications leads by example Australia's largest workforce resources company, Skilled Engineering, has installed a KRONE structured cabling system in its new premises, as a customer reference site for its Communications Division. Born of the deregulation of the Australian telecommunications industry and the roll-out of cable television networks, Skilled Communications installs, maintains and tests a wide range of products for the telecommunications and power distribution industries. When Skilled acquired and began refurbishing a building in Melbourne for the company's new headquarters, it was natural that it chose to design and install the cabling using its own resources. The Communications Division designed a cabling infrastructure for the two-storey building for 600 outlets to be used for voice and data applications by all head office staff, from the board of directors through to accounts and administration staff. Daryl Mangles, Skilled Communications' national business manager for installation and service, explained "The building was being rebuilt internally, giving us the perfect opportunity to install the 'ideal' cabling infrastructure as an example to our customers. "We had recently installed KRONE's HIGHBAND for Ansett Australia, so were aware of the product's benefits, compared to competitor products. We also wanted the flexibility lent by its 'Patch by Exception' capabilities, which weren't replicated anywhere else. "Skilled has a philosophy of expanding the skills of its own people to facilitate corporate growth, so the movement of personnel through various departments occurs fairly regularly. That's why we needed a flexible solution that would be easy for the network administrator to manage without turning it into a huge mess of cables." Patch by Exception allows network managers, with minimum knowledge of cabling systems, to create temporary 'patches' in the network's configuration. Instead of calling out a certified technician to re- configure the cabling every time an employee moves desks in an office, a temporary patch cable instantly re-routes the traffic from the old to the new outlet until a technician can make the change permanent. "Costs can be reduced significantly due to the economy of using jumper cable instead of patch cords and the patch frame remains a lot tidier because less cable is required to make the jumpered leads cross connect. When patching is required, it can be carried out reliably using latched patch plugs without any interruption to live circuits," said Mr Mangles. "This saves on maintenance costs and there is a noticeable difference in the speed of the changes.” Approximately 80 per cent of the installation work done by Skilled Communications involves KRONE products and, as such, it was the obvious choice in the company's own premises. "Because the product is so easy to install, the project was completed in less than four months, even though we had to work around other contractors, such as painters and plasterers. "We have installed more outlets than we can currently use, so that with future growth the system will still be able to take care of all our needs" concludes Mr Mangles. . kronehlp@krone .com. au Web: www.krone .com. au Jo No 5514 06/09 Skilled Communications leads by example Australia's largest workforce resources company, Skilled. its Communications Division. Born of the deregulation of the Australian telecommunications industry and the roll-out of cable television networks, Skilled