Improving access to cabling resources
With every critical IT system at Heathrow Airport relying on the organisation's cabling infrastructure, it must have a reliable and flexible environment. As the UK's busiest airport, cabling teams at Heathrow face a unique set of challenges. To improve access to cabling resources, the consortium resonsible for Heathrow's IT systems needed a new cabling specialist.

The team consistently goes above and beyond to deliver what we need so we can have complete confidence in the cabling infrastructure.
Andrew Eley, Senior Solution Designer, Atkins, Heathrow Airport
OBJECTIVES
- Growth/business change
- Risk avoidance
- Continuous improvement/innovation
Computacenter work on more than 300 projects at Heathrow
We have provided cabling solutions at Heathrow Airport since October 2012 and provide a 35-strong onsite team, which has worked on more than 300 projects, and installed more than 110 kilometres of cabling. These projects have included decommissioning the Olympic infrastructure, equipping the Heathrow Snow Base command and control centre and installing 400 wireless access points.
Outcome
- Borderless network