Testimonials
Case study N°1 :
Client « The Essex Chronicle Series ltd » and installer « Links Network Communications LTD »
Client « Electronic Arts » and installer « Dynax Systems Ltd »
Company Prole
Electronic Arts (EA) is the world’s leading independent
developer and publisher of interactive entertainment
software for personal computers and advanced
entertainment systems such as the PlayStation®2
Computer Entertainment System, the PlayStation®,
Xbox™ video game console from Microsoft, the
Nintendo GameCube™ and the Game Boy® Advance.
Since its inception, EA has garnered more than 700
awards for outstanding software in the U.S. and Europe.
EA markets its products worldwide under four brand
logos and has over 33 product franchises that have
reached more than a million unit sales worldwide.
Customer’s Business Issues
Install tidy, innovative Cat 5E cabling in a new server
farm complex.
Customer’s Business Objectives
A need to minimize downtime by making patch lead
identication and tracing simple and quick. A tidy and
well organized cabinet makes cable tracing and fault
nding much swifter and therefore reduces downtime.
Dynax Solution
We suggested EA may like to consider using PatchSee
Intelligent Patch cables for their patching needs.
Patchsee RJ45 patch cord cables use an optical bre
inside the main cable down which a light is shone to
allow the quick end to end identication of cables in a
cabinet. The advantages of PatchSee fall into three key
categories :
1. Reliability without additional investment
2. Fast, efcient trouble-shooting
3. Customers need the best and most powerful
connections
Customer Benets
As well as the obvious benets of quick and accurate
tracing of cables, the PatchSee cables offered a quality
that was difcult to match at the price using any other
cable. This, together with the elimination of incorrect
unplugging of patch leads, provides a much more stable
and secure environment, reducing down time, and therefore
ultimately reducing costs to the business.
Why Dynax and Patchsee
The Network Manager Daren Watson of EA says, “We
believe that through Dynax we have gained a more
manageable installation. The ability to nd specic
cables quickly gives a reduction in the time taken to do
moves and changes, and also reduces the time taken to
trace fault conditions. Although the PatchSee cables cost
slightly more that the standard conventional cables the
saving comes from being able to trace a specic cable
in less than a minute whereas the conventional cable, in
a busy cabinet, could take ten minutes, or more ! This
consistent saving in support costs makes the PatchSee
cables a cost-effective product. These two benets help
to reduce the cost of maintaining the wiring infrastructure.
The use of PatchSee cables in the new building
has been seen as a success and the company is about to
make PatchSee cables the company standard. All new
installations and upgrades to existing wiring systems will
be carried out using PatchSee cables.”
Partnerships
PatchSee
Dynax Systems Limited 4 Cartel Business Centre Stroudley Road,Basingstoke Hampshire,RG24 8FW United Kingdom