Mass media Industry- Cisco POE switches structured cabling Project case study

About the company

The American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in Burbank, California was originally founded on October 16, 1923. The company established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and theme parks. Since the 1980s, this company has created and acquired corporate divisions to market more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. This large-scale American company operates four primary business units, which it calls "business segments": Studio Entertainment, Media Networks, Direct-to-Consumer & International, and Parks, Experiences & Products. The mission of this large-scale media company is to entertain, inform and inspire people around the globe through the power of unparalleled storytelling, reflecting the iconic brands, creative minds and innovative technologies that make ours the world’s premier entertainment company

CHALLENGES

Every company has its own security measures, this helps filtering out unwanted transactions. However, upon positioning of the Pm2net field services team, the security held them for too long. Although it didn’t cost them to delay or extend the hours, a little note to the security that partners are engaged to work for their company might help to start the work immediately.

The Pm2net engineers were skilled enough to follow instructions and think logically of a situation. In this situation, they were tasked to move cables from old switches to new ones, and when they tested the installations; some cables were not working. The limited information relayed to them caused errors. This may be one of the biggest challenges brought forth in this project. According to the Field Services team, they were only following the lead and leveraging on the details imparted by the team. This is an important reminder that projects are problem-solving matters, and requires thinking logically and being an innate problem-solver. Also, it was a blocker that they were not that familiar with the environment, yet. There were learning curves, which our engineers were able to cope with. It is a good thing that Pm2net engineers were practicing the conservative approach, where they scheme out continuity plans, preventing recurring errors. Given the bumps and rough edges, the Pm2net field services team was able to finish the project on time with high-quality service.

Assessment and solution

This project covers multiple phases for 2 location, which are as follows:

• Migrating switches

• Cabling, plugging, unplugging, Un-racking

• Removal of old equipment

This was not a one-man job, and so Pm2net sent over 5 resources to complete this project. Mentioned above are the challenges that were faced by the Pm2net engineers. These rough edges were used as a training ground to provide solutions to such situations. It is always mentioned that the Pm2net engineers are skilled enough to provide a workaround for every failing situation. To quickly highlight, the engineers managed to scheme out a troubleshooting procedure for those cables that are not working as per testing; the task was to re-install from old switches to new ones. Having to plan out solutions ahead of time helped the engineers to accomplish the project just on time, considering the challenges that they might have encountered along the way. Given that familiarity to the work environment might help, the Pm2net engineers were able to learn how the production of the environment works.

advantages

IP devices are becoming Ubiquitous, and the Internet of Things is upon us, predictions are for billions of devices connected over the Internet of Everything. So, what does this mean in terms of connectivity? Will everything be wireless? Not for several reasons, including upstream and downstream high-speed connectivity with data centers and storage, and reliability issues in harsh environments. However, many devices such as sensors will be wireless, and they’ll need to be back-hauled back to the data center or control areas.

It makes it easier to consolidate networks and converge office and business networks with plant-wide networking, providing a lower cost, a more secure single-managed network providing collaboration and communications functionality to the plant floor, and real-time information back to the business systems so they can act on it.