The CMCS development is a 2 storey area of approx. 2,800 sq. ft. It is designed to offer either Customer Support facilities to a full scale Disaster Recovery production invocation (incl. comprehensive handwork requirements) or alternatively to operate autonomously as an inbound mail sortation, scan and redistribution centre.

The ground floor comprises over 200 columns of mailsortation frames, giving over 1,500 sortation areas as well as letter opening machines, secure card shredding and a goods lift to the second floor.

The first floor contains 40 work stations allowing for and including pc and scanning areas, as well as an additional 50 columns of mailsortation frames.

The telephone system has a twin ISDN30 set-up, which means that should a Customer wish to use the area with CMCS support, all phone calls can be directed from the CMCS switchboard. However, in the event of a fully autonomous work unit requiring the area, the whole development can be switched to run off an independent ISDN30 card with its own DDI numbers (20) and switchboard.

The network system is the same in that a Customer can use the area as part of the CMCS network and be allocated storage facilities on the CMCS servers, CMCS email accounts etc. However, the option is also there for the whole system to patched into Customer servers either onsite or remotely so that a complete system virtualisation option can be used.

The development is always on standby and set in CMCS mode, with other facilities such as faxing, photocopying and network printing available via the CMCS network, but any Customer’s virtualisation plan can be activated almost immediately due to a system of preset patch panels stored in the CMCS server room.

In the event that a Customer requires total autonomy for sensitive information or security reasons, the section has its own toilet and kitchen facilities to remove the need for the area to interact with the any other part of the building during the operational period.

For more information please take a look at the Business Continuity Suite and Mail Sortation areas of our site.