The PwC company starts an espluatation of complex IT infrastructure

The Asteros company completed the project on hardware of new office Russian PwC in business center "Belaya Square".

Implementation

On 14 floors of the high rise building intellectual network infrastructure and the system of multimedia which allow to provide the continuity of information services is created, to provide modern instruments of work and interaction both in firm, and with clients and partners.

Background

"Dynamics of business of PwC dictates new quality requirements and reliability of the services and technologies provided by IT department. Moving to new business center gave us the chance to create the best conditions for productive work of employees; overcome technological limits which were inherent in infrastructure of old office; expand a range of the solutions available to employees and clients of firm. Together with Asteros we managed to overcome successfully all difficulties which usually face at accomplishment of IT projects of such scale. As a result IT infrastructure of new office was started just in time and within the approved budget. Today it is possible to tell with confidence that infrastructure of office and IT services functioning on its base work reliably and that is not less important, are demanded by employees and clients of our firm", – Dmitry Inshakov, the Chief information officer of PwC in Russia comments.

Details

Within the project specialists of Asteros created the intellectual structured cabling system (SCS) based on the solution SYSTIMAX iPatch.

It includes a local computer network, means of communication and telecommunications. For creation of network infrastructure more than 500 km of a cable were used. SCS are covered by 14 floors of the building, supports 6400 ports and is expected support up to 3000 employees. Network infrastructure of new office PwC has potential of intellectual monitoring that allows to control work of components of network in real time, to provide reliable protection against unauthorized access and to administer network with attraction of the minimum number of IT specialists.

Media

Experts of Asteros also designed the corporate complex of the multimedia systems which integrated meeting rooms of office, a training classes and conference rooms. It allows PwC to broadcast the presentations and different multimedia content more than in 30 meeting rooms, to show programs internal television of a HD format on several tens LCD screens.

Feedback

"Hi-tech network infrastructure of new Moscow office fully corresponds to scales and perspectives of business development of PwC. The company will be able flexibly and quickly to change arrangement of jobs of employees, is dynamic to organize new departments depending on requirements of business. A full-function end-to-end multimedia system will provide comfortable, operational and reliable communications in corporation", – Olga Tyrnovskaya, the director of the department of commercial clients of Asteros company noted.