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CASE STUDY

Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury promotes sustainable development across Canterbury, managing vital resources with local support. 2degrees Enterprise provides essential network services, connecting 20 sites with broadband solutions like UFB and VDSL, ensuring reliable access for over 500 staff and supporting their data needs and remote work.

Industry: Sustainability
Problem: Reliable green field connectivity

Solution: Fixed WAN/LAN
Outcome: Improved connectivity and failover across sites

Environment Canterbury's role is to facilitate sustainable development in the Canterbury region. They do this by working with the people of Canterbury to manage the region's air, water and land.

2degrees Enterprise manages Environment Canterbury's LAN, WAN and internet, connecting 20 urban and remote locations with a range of Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB), VDSL and ADSL services.

For large sites, fibre provides the primary connection with an automated failover to VDSL, although each site's broadband needs and available infrastructure determines exactly what solution is used.

The WAN covers a large part of the South Island for over 500 staff, including several offices across greater Christchurch, one in Timaru as well as smaller regional depots and even a single user site in Tekapo.

"Regardless of where they are located, all our staff need a fast network to access files, especially data-rich GIS information relating to consents, water flows and surveys," says Alan Warne, Environment Canterbury's Team Leader ICT Operations.

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Collaboration and initiative

2degrees regularly works with other infrastructure providers including Enable Networks and Chorus on Environment Canterbury's behalf.

"Our Lincoln site was previously an old country club, abandoned for years and surrounded by water on three sides," Alan comments. "It was a difficult place to put fibre into but 2degrees and its partners happily took up the challenge."

"2degrees offers excellent value for money and can tailor their network solution to meet the needs of each location. Outages due to ongoing construction are just a fact of life in Christchurch these days but 2degrees team are responsive, taking problems in their stride and working with other infrastructure companies to just sort it for us."

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"2degrees offers excellent value for money and can tailor their network solution to meet the needs of each location."
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Alan Warne
Team Leader, ICT Operations

Reliable remote access

The managed WAN connects directly to Environment Canterbury's data centres, enhancing cloud application performance. As they transition to cloud-based email, the Canterbury Civil Defence Emergency Management Group gains independence during emergencies. The 2degrees network is also extending to 15 unmanned environmental monitoring stations.

Alan Warne notes, "Running the network to our monitoring stations will deliver several benefits, not least of all saving travel costs to our remote sites. This offers some really exciting possibilities for recording much greater amounts of data about air quality, tracking changes as they occur and allowing us to have near real-time data— all things that were not possible when the monitoring was done by hand."

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