At new office Discovery Communications the unified system of communications is implemented

The TerraLink company completed the project of creation of the unified communications system for the Moscow office of Discovery Communications company.

Bases and requirements

Due to the opening of the Moscow office the Discovery Communications company needed work on infrastructure equipment, including - the organizations of a video conferencing, to deployment of network of the distributed telecasting and installation of a control system of access (ACS).

As the leader of information market, Discovery imposes high requirements to equipment by the audiovisual equipment of the offices that is the basic moment for further design and functional arrangement of premises.

The new office should conform to the international Discovery corporate standards. For implementation of a complex of works the TerraLink company is invited.

Implementation

After the analysis of infrastructure, topology of the office space, analysis of the available project, specialists TerraLink performed correction of technical specifications and offered the adapted option which is most answering to the customer's tasks.

Results

As a result of the implemented project the Discovery Communications company received a modern, highly effective communication network in the order. As a basis of the project the general purpose equipment from the best global manufacturers – Crestron and Tandberg was selected that will allow not only to scale further a system, but also to recustomize components under necessary services with the minimum investments and dead time. The solution allows to unroll the centralized, perfectly managed corporate services with ease and to upgrade all subsystems in process of increase in loading and topology change with the minimum costs for their deployment.

Specialists of TerraLink not only performed installation of a system, but also turned on office in corporate network, having organized an effective communication channel with the central office in London and other platforms of corporation. Now users of the Moscow office have full access to a broad spectrum of additional business services.

Opinion

"We hope that thanks to the system installed by us, communications and the majority of business processes of staff of Discovery Communications will become more effective and convenient, at the same time decision making speed will increase, dead time of key staff will decrease, travelers and overheads will be reduced. Also economic effect of implementation of the project is obvious. So, for example, the highly effective video conferencing will allow to cut down cardinally expenses on business trips of employees, will save expensive time of leadership team, will promote the organization of a continuous duty of work, and, eventually, will increase efficiency", - Mikhail Danilov, the head of the infrastructure direction of TerraLink company shares the opinion.