Datapac - The Law Society invests in Unified Communications

22 May 2009

The Law Society has implemented a UC solution to transform business processes and enhance productivity.

The Law Society of Ireland is the educational, representative and regulatory body for the solicitors’ profession in Ireland.  The Law School is in the Law Society’s headquarters at Blackhall Place and runs two full-time courses for trainees - the Professional Practice Course Part I and the Professional Practice Course Part II. 

The Law Society has implemented a Unified Communications solution to transform business processes and enhance productivity by allowing staff to collaborate in real time using their office tools and applications.  “We were relocating about sixty of our regulatory staff from a number of different offices into a new open-plan office in George’s Court”, explains Tom Blennerhasset, IT Manager at The Law Society.  “It was vital that all applications were available to them at the same, or better,  speed than in Blackhall Place and our other offices”. 

Datapac, the Law Society’s solution provider and a Cisco Premier Partner, proposed and implemented the Cisco solution which comprises a Cisco wireless network with Cisco WAAS.  This allows all applications to have LAN-like speeds across the WAN to the relocated end users.  Datapac also implemented a security solution, Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) technology, which provides advanced visibility and control.  “The unified communications solution allows all our staff who have been relocated to continue in their new workplace as though they were directly connected onto the corporate LAN.  The HQ solution has been extended to our Law School in Cork”, continues Tom.  “A single voice and data network across three sites creates more efficiency and allows our mobile workforce to work as normal no matter where they sit on our network”.

The next phase for the Law Society is to introduce this unified communications solution and wireless connectivity to the HQ site at Blackhall Place.

“We wanted to simplify our system for higher reliability, availability, manageability and scalability,” concludes Tom.   “With Datapac’s help we have achieved this."

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