Future ready Data Centre
to go for Actelion
Actelion
Pharmaceuticals Ltd
www.actelion.com
Location:
Allschwil, Switzerland
Background
Actelion is a biopharmaceutical company with its corporate
Vertical Market:
headquarters in Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland. Actelion was
Pharmaceutical
founded in 1997 and its shares have been listed on the
SWX Swiss Exchange with the ticker symbol ALTN since
Application:
2000. The company is focused on the discovery,
development and commercialisation of synthetic, small-
Data Centre
molecule drugs as innovative treatments to serve unmet
medical needs. Actelion has a proven track record in drug
discovery and has significant expertise in two research
platforms G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), which
are proteins embedded in the cell wall that receive various
chemical messages and aspartyl proteases, a class of
natural enzymes. Actelion has subsidiaries in over 20
countries including the United States, Canada, Brazil,
Australia, Japan, Switzerland and a number of EU
countries. These subsidiaries provide or will provide
distribution, sales and marketing services.
www.panduit.comThe Challenge
Given their rapid expansion, Actelion had to increase their data centre capacity very
quickly to service the business needs and be future ready. The data centre in the
companys headquarters in Allschwill couldnt offer requisite power and space, so the
company decided to outsource the data centre to the IWB Telehouse in Basel. IWB
was a green field data centre. In order to keep pace with growth and minimise
disruption to the companys IT services, the change from Allschwil to Basel had to be
made within a two week time frame.
Why PANDUIT?
The pre-terminated QUICKNET copper and fibre cabling solutions from PANDUIT
attracted Actelions attention because they facilitated quick deployment. Further
products such as the NET-ACCESS cabinets offered access for easy moves, adds
and changes (MACs).
The new data centre also had to meet Actelions stringent demands to be future
ready and have high uptime and reliability. The initial installation was Phase 1 of a
planned, long term project of staggered upgrades; the schedule for which would be
dictated by the growing business needs. The PANDUIT solution could fulfill these
needs and offer the flexibility for future growth that Actelion needed. Having
recognised this, Actelion invited PANDUIT to work on the installation.
The PANDUIT Solution
This solution specifically met the needs of fast installation through the use of the
QUICKNET range: pre-terminated copper and fibre cabling solutions which included
cassettes and pre-terminated cable trunks. Cassettes are pre-terminated in a
controlled factory environment meaning that consistent network performance is
provided while reducing installation time and on-site waste as compared to field-
terminated installations.
Actelion also wanted easy access to cabling in order to cope with future data centre
growth as well as routine data centre and cabling maintenance. To meet this need
PANDUIT consultants incorporated an overhead cable management system plus the
NET-ACCESS cabinet into the solution. The cabinets dual hinged doors give superior
accessibility to the cable pathway. The modular design incorporates flexibility for
future network expansions resulting in greater network uptime, plus easier moves,
adds and changes for the lowest total cost of ownership.