Speed improved
100mbps to 10Gbps
Staff and student devices covered
~ 3500
Installed and go-live
1 week
Solutions
Insights
- A hundredfold speed leap, from a 100 Mbps LAN to 10GbE across the campus
- Wi-Fi 7 and 6GHz-ready hardware, ready for what comes next
- A custom student portal for support requests, live status and maintenance notices
Before and after
The current picture, and where it goes
The brief was simple to say and harder to deliver. One fast, reliable network across an entire campus, academic and residential, with no dead spots and no patchwork.
Before:
A 100 Mbps LAN that had reached its limit, on a campus network grown building by building with no single standard behind it. Coverage that changed as students moved between rooms, halls and residences.
After:
A standardised, campus-wide network on WiFi 7, with 10GbE across the LAN and access points, gigabit Internet and consistent coverage in every room, installed in a single week and managed end to end by cimply.
The Invisible Win
The upgrade students notice least is the one that works best.
A network done right disappears. Students move between a lecture hall, a study space and their room without a thought, because the Wi-Fi behaves the same everywhere. The real win is everything the college stopped having to think about.
- Consistent coverage indoors and out, from lecture halls to residences
- A custom portal that turns support from a mystery into a status page
- Centralised monitoring, so issues are seen by cimply before they spread
“You and your team handled the rollout with a such professionalism. There was no doubt that it was thoughtfully planned, but it was also impressively well executed. You made it all so seamless, especially in liaising with our other stakeholders such as our CCTV people and the outgoing service provider. Looking forward to working with your team on future projects.”
Director, Operations and Facilities
St Thomas More College
The latest wireless standard, deployed to last.
cimply designed, deployed and now manages the college’s network from the ground up. In the newest building, UniFi E7 access points sit outside each room, connected over 10GbE on Cat6a cabling. Inside existing rooms, UniFi 7 Pro Wall access points deliver consistent in-room coverage, all carried on a UniFi Pro XG switching backbone.
cimply also delivers and maintains the campus-wide gigabit internet and monitors the whole environment around the clock. The entire campus was designed, installed and live within a week, and now carries around over 3500 student and staff devices on a single standardised network, built on Wi-Fi 7 and ready for the years of students still to come.
100x
speed increase
~ 3500
student and staff devices now covered
1 week
to go-live
A leap forward, and a foundation to build on.
For St Thomas More College, this is more than faster Wi-Fi. It is a modern foundation, reliable connectivity and student-facing tools, that supports academic success now and scales with the campus for years to come.
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