Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK

To accommodate it's London-based staff, CR UK moved it's HQ to new premises within the International Quarter in Stratford. The state-of-the-art building offers a better working environment for employees and access to leisure and retail facilities nearby. Over 315km of Datwyler Cat6A cable was specified, and installed over 3 floors of their building.

Cancer Research UK’s sole purpose is to beat cancer. It’s entirely funded by public donations, which are used to raise awareness and develop new medicines & treatments to combat the disease. The charity has a growing team of staff, including doctors, nurses, scientists and fund raisers all determined to eradicate Cancer.

To accommodate it’s London-based staff, CR UK moved it’s HQ to new premises within the International Quarter in Stratford. The state-of-the-art building offers a better working environment for employees and access to leisure and retail facilities nearby.

ExcelRedstone won the IT infrastructure portion of the project with a Datwyler cabling system from iDAC Solutions (the exclusive source of Datwyler cabling products in the UK&I).

CAT6a FFTP was installed on matting under a raised floor to supply GOP boxes on a 1.8m grid system. CAT6a was also installed in over-head basket to supply Wireless AP’s in the ceiling space. Flat-angled copper patch panels were used in each comms. room. The installation took place over floors 3, 4 and 5 of the new building and communications rooms were linked using OM4 TB fibre.


iDACS Technical Director, Paul Hunter, carried out onsite training and toolbox talks for engineers to ensure they were familiar with the Datwyler system at that the infrastructure was installed according to standards. Paul also attended site several times to liaise with the installer and main contractor; and towards the end of the project attended site with Cancer Research staff to help resolve questions relating to the patching in of users.
The project was a great success and received a fully 25 year Datwyler system warranty.

iDACS supplied;
* Over 315km of Cat6A Cca copper cable
* Nearly 16,000 Cat6A RJ45 modules
* Approx. 2000 Cat6A harness Links (42km)
* Over 8500 shielded patch leads
* 460+ shielded patch panels

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iDACS supplied and warrantied the Datwyler Cabling Solution
iDACS supplied and warrantied the Datwyler Cabling Solution

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