ALT NET Services

Farnborough has three 42u pre-staging racks with power and full fibre connectivity, Heathrow has a 24u, and both sites run three phase power distributed down to 16 and 32 amp 240 volt outlets, so we can build an OLT chassis properly rather than balancing it on a pallet. We hold your stock on our warehouse management system and reconcile it against your own numbers. Hardware is racked, powered up, configured and tested if that is what you need, or simply held and kitted per site. There is a build area with prep tables at both warehouses, hot desking at Farnborough, and we have hosted client training days there as well. Nothing goes out until it has been checked.

We are equally at home in a datacentre or standing at the kerbside in front of a full fibre broadband cabinet, which is not something every logistics company will say. Devices travel mounted in SKB shock rack water resistant flight cases, so they arrive dry and undamaged whatever the weather has been doing. Our engineers install into the cabinet and carry out the basic connections, ready for your own engineers to follow up behind. Cabinet enclosures get landed with a Hiab, and kerbside deliveries are set up Chapter 8 compliant, with the signing, lighting and guarding the highway authority expects. Vans are plain, unmarked and fitted with Thatcham approved deadlocks, and they are tracked to street level anywhere in Europe, which matters on a build day when a supervisor needs to know where the 9am drop has actually got to.

Rollouts fall over on stock, not labour. We run a full inventory management system for client stock across both warehouses, with orders generated automatically from our warehouse management system and received by email, so your regional teams are not ringing round trying to find out whether the splitters landed. Between the two sites there are 850 racked pallet spaces and another 150 out of gauge floor spaces for anything that will not sit on a pallet, which covers most cabinet enclosures. Deliveries can be timed to your build slots and run out of hours if the highways permits demand it. If a site drops out at short notice we criss-cross the country to fill the gap, and that flexibility is usually what clients are paying for.