Site-Net - Announces 1km wifi plans
Plans to develop wireless networks of up to 1km in range for the
construction industry have been announced by Site-Net. Development
work on the ambitious plans are to start in November and the
Site-Net team are confident of delivering long range, high quality,
secure WI-FI zones by the end of the year.
“Imagine you’re working on a major construction site and need to
access the internet or send an email but the only PC connected to
the net is in a portacabin on the far side of the site,” says Site
Net’s Jon McLachlan. “You’re going to have to walk back and forth
for most of the day if you want to check your mail regularly. That’s
going to waste a lot of time. We’re confident that we can increase
the range of Site-Net’s coverage so that it can be extended up to
1km per base unit. This will bring real benefits to large
construction companies working on big developments or with several
sites in close proximity.”
As well as providing secure, managed internet access, Site-Net also
incorporates state of the art real time anti-virus and anti-spam
filters and an enterprise grade firewall.
The 'all in one VPN in a box solution' can be installed and
configured in just a few hours, providing remote workers across a
construction site with easy access to websites, email and remote
servers on their company networks.
The Site-Net system is currently being used by several construction
companies, including Waystone and Herbert Baggaley Construction Ltd.
“The Site-Net system provides us with a quick and easy installation
and allows us to securely send and receive information around our
sites,” says John Raybould, IT Manager at Baggaley. “We'd been
looking for a viable solution to providing network access to people
on site for some time and were about to give up when Senior
Technology contacted us about Site-Net”.
On site, having remote access to files and the Internet has made a
significant difference, as Steve Edis, Site Manager at Baggaley's
Grove Park, Leicester project comments: “Before Site-Net was
installed we didn't have email or access to the company intranet and
so there were lots of meetings on site, plans had to be hand
delivered and if you wanted anything from head office you either had
to leave the site and go and pick it up or ask for it to be posted
or faxed. Now, it's sent quickly and easily via email. Site-Net has
made a real difference to the way we work and communicate with Head
Office.”
Email:
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