Schools on the inernet: This is how it works with WLAN
March 15, 2023
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Digitalization at schools is more important than ever. As a medium-sized city in Lower Saxony, the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg planned a complete WLAN supply for the 19 general education schools in municipal sponsorship in a multi-stage implementation from the summer of 2021 as part of the "DigitalPakt Schule" (BMBF) - this affected the entire school buildings as well as the respective adjacent school grounds such as schoolyards or cafeterias.
Systempartner IT-Vertriebs GmbH & Co.KG from Lüneburg won four of the total of seven procurement projects (so-called lots) in the public invitation to tender for hardware components. For the "data cabinets including accessories" lot, the experienced IT service provider cooperated with EFB-Elektronik GmbH from Bielefeld. As a leading manufacturer and system provider for network technology and industrial system solutions, EFB-Elektronik was able to meet the special requirements of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg with regard to the 690 data cabinets required and their equipment within the specified timeframe. System partners and EFB-Elektronik thus jointly made a significant contribution to the successful progress of the overall project.
Wanted: Cabinet systems for special requirements
In order to enable the students to learn and work better, it was the goal of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg to install a small data cabinet in all classrooms and function rooms instead of the previously existing data socket - to accommodate a data socket, a fanless mini-switch as well as local copper cabling for corresponding WLAN access points, digital boards and other network terminal devices.
In order to be able to implement this project in the best possible way, the Hanseatic city divided the procurement award into seven individual lots as part of its invitation to tender. In Lot 1, it invited tenders for a total of 690 data cabinets (19'' wall-mounted enclosures) including accessories. These had to be distributed on call to the 19 school locations in a maximum of 19 partial deliveries at a time defined by the Hanseatic City.
"Due to the school-specific spatial and security-related aspects, the data cabinets had to meet certain criteria that deviated from the standard in terms of design and locking mechanism," says Steffen Rüter, IT systems merchant at Systempartner. When looking for a suitable supplier, his team decided on the offer from EFB-Elektronik.
| "The Bielefeld-based company came out on top among all the competitors in both economic and technical terms" Steffen Rüter |
Flexible implementation of special solutions
In addition to the usual requirements for a high-quality wall-mounted enclosure with accessories - such as socket strips, cable entry with brush strips or shunting brackets - EFB-Elektronik was also able to meet the special specifications of the Hanseatic city. These included vertical installation with six height units (HE) or the use of a replaceable locking cylinder. "In this way, the cabinets are not only particularly space-saving and can be positioned in a corner of the classrooms as desired, they are also optimally equipped from a security point of view," says Thomas Haacker, Buxtehude site manager at EFB-Elektronik. This is because access to the data cabinets must be reserved for a select group of people, especially at schools.
Another special requirement that the company's specialists were able to meet: a hybrid patch panel for the parallel use of copper and fiber optic cabling, including couplers and keystone modules. "Normally, copper and fiber optic cabling are separated from each other," explains Haacker, who received active support from his colleague Marcus Nelles, product manager for cabinet systems, in implementing the special solutions. Says Nelles, "The custom patch panel design we constructed here, in turn, helps save space."
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Project coordination on schedule
"No one has these kinds of special construction solutions lying around so easily," Rüter knows. "We are pleased to have found an uncomplicated and team-friendly partner in EFB-Elektronik, who took such great pains with the elaboration and equipment of the cabinets; and was still able to provide them on time." After all, the time aspect was also crucial to the project. Says Haacker: "With a project of this size and with such a large number of participants, good planning and punctual delivery of the individual hardware components and services are essential. Everything has to go hand in hand in terms of timing." Systempartner, for its part, ensured that the interim storage, delivery and distribution of the data cabinets during the summer vacations was completed on time.
About Systempartner
Systempartner IT-Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG stands for a high standard of quality and for individual IT services in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt. We have been successfully active in the market for 20 years now and support more than 500 customers and their IT systems. From small offices to large companies with several locations. Our premises in Lüneburg are the starting point for a nationwide customer service. With the claim of a holistic IT support we find the optimal solution. In doing so, we focus on individual wishes and needs. Mor information it-system-partner.de/
