CCI Technology Holdings reinforced its leadership in the SA network integration market today when it officially announced its successful completion of a R2 million structured, managed cabling solution for Canal Walk, the largest shopping complex in South Africa.
The company made the announcement in partnership with iCITI, which led the implementation of an "intelligent mall environment" for Canal Walk and surrounding premises, and outsourced Canal Walk`s physical network installation to CCI, says the integrator`s CEO, Steve Pinkney.
iCITI CEO Alan West says the appointment of CCI slotted in well with iCITI`s vision of "an intelligent environment that harnesses a single, pervasive network, to provide a whole range of services to customers and tenants".
The iCITI project encompassed the provisioning of voice, video and data services to tenants, shoppers and adjacent residents in other premises of the R1.6 billion Century City development. Multimedia applications include e-tail storefronts for shopping tenants, large screen video advertising boards, electronic data interchange and more.
CCI`s role in the project was the supply and integration of RIT Category 5E and fibre optic cabling to support the multi-service network. To complement this, iCITI supplied central computer control rooms.
"Tenants will simply move in, plug their PCs, telephones, point-of-sale devices and other equipment into the convergent network, and start ringing up sales," West says. "Such is the sophistication of this easy-to-use intelligent environment that tenants will even have access to centrally hosted office applications on an application rental basis."
CCI`s Pinkney says CCI laid a wealth of copper and single- as well as multi-mode fibre optic cabling, terminating in 3 000 copper outlets and 800 fibre outlets." The fibre conduits run to the core of the network, and the 100 Mbps copper from the central computer rooms to the shops.
This cabling deal follows a million rand contract for CCI to provide a high-speed fibre-optic data/voice cabling infrastructure for the R350-million Ratanga Junction theme park within the Century City development.
This earlier work was carried out as an ultra-fast-track `wire-as-you-build` project, with cabling being installed during construction rather than afterwards, as is traditional.
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