Birmingham City University (BCU) is a higher education provider, located in the heart of Birmingham. With over 29,000 students from around 100 countries, BCU is a large and diverse university with a focus on practice-based learning, offering a wide variety of vocational based courses. The university has two main campuses serving four faculties, and offers courses in art and design, business, computing, education, engineering, English, healthcare, law, the performing arts, social sciences, and technology.

In the process of refurbishing 7,500 rooms across its halls of residence, Logicalis’ customer, a leading UK University, saw the opportunity to upgrade its accommodations’ Wi-Fi network. The team was laser-focused on providing students with superior internet experience, positioning them as a modern and forward-thinking University.

Logicalis have a long-standing relationship with a Global Systems Integrator, and have worked with them on several of our key accounts. One of their customers, a high-profile British luxury car retailer, had outsourced most of their IT systems and Infrastructure many years ago.

The National Oceanography Centre needed to refurbish RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook with an up-to-date, high speed, and secure network and IT infrastructure. Despite a complex set of obstacles read how the Logicalis, team in collaboration with Cisco delivered a robust and secure solution.

Birmingham City University ensures seamless student and staff services with scalable cloud-based clearing solution backed by a managed service portfolio from Logicalis.