Morgan Cole Deploys An Extreme Network

Published 12th October 2009

Extreme Networks and its Platinum Partner Scalable Communications have announced that leading UK law firm Morgan Cole is using a selection of switches from its BlackDiamond® and Summit® family in order to upgrade its Local Area Network (LAN) infrastructure and provide a solid foundation for future expansion.

Morgan Cole is a successful and dynamic UK organisation with six offices across both Southern England and Southern Wales. Formed by the merger of Morgan Bruce and Cole & Cole in 1998, the firm invests in both exceptional people and the latest technologies in order to fulfil both its own objectives and those of its clients. With 600 people employed across its offices, Morgan Cole realised it required a high performance network that was both robust and resilient enough to maintain its immediate business critical applications, as well as further technological developments such as Voice over IP telephony (VoIP).

“We issued a tender looking for a flexible, high performance network solution that we could work with immediately, but would also provide the necessary capability for VoIP,” said Morgan Cole’s Infrastructure Delivery Manager, Catherine Baker. “Scalable Communications proposed a selection of switches from Extreme Networks and, given its previous combined experience within the legal sector, we felt it had a unique advantage.”

Since implementing the network upgrade, Morgan Cole has benefited from increased resiliency and reliability, and now has the necessary backbone in place for the future introduction of VoIP.

“Organisations such as Morgan Cole have presented us with diverse needs and require technologies that will improve operational efficiency and drive innovation within the organisation,” says Extreme Networks Regional Director for UK & Ireland Gary Newbold. “With the proliferation of IP Telephony and a resilient network to route the voice and video traffic, Morgan Cole has adopted a solution that will not only improve its communications infrastructure, but will also ensure the network is performing to the maximum level, whilst lowering its total cost of ownership.”