{"id":50,"date":"2026-06-12T05:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/case-studies\/kim-fay\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:15:09","slug":"kim-fay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/case-studies\/kim-fay\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Fay East Africa: Fibre Backbone &#038; Enterprise LAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Client:<\/strong> Kim Fay East Africa \u2014 manufacturing and distribution. <strong>Engagement:<\/strong> fibre backbone and enterprise LAN, 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>The challenge<\/h2>\n<p>A manufacturing and distribution operation runs on systems that can&#8217;t wait for the network: ERP, warehouse, dispatch. Kim Fay needed a backbone with the capacity to carry all of it, and an access network managed as one estate rather than a pile of unrelated switches.<\/p>\n<h2>What Ryantel delivered<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>385 metres of indoor fibre-optic backbone, with splicing, terminations and patching<\/li>\n<li>Cat6A horizontal cabling throughout<\/li>\n<li>A centrally managed Ubiquiti enterprise fabric: USW-Pro-Aggregation core and a four-switch PoE access layer<\/li>\n<li>Configuration, installation and documentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The result<\/h2>\n<p>One fibre spine, one managed fabric, one place to see the whole network. The plant floor and the head office stopped being separate IT estates \u2014 which is the prerequisite for everything else a manufacturer wants to do, from ERP integration to automated dispatch confirmations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cta-band\">\n<h2>Plant floor and head office not talking?<\/h2>\n<p>Describe your setup to a senior engineer. We&#8217;ll tell you what&#8217;s involved before anyone talks money.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-amber\" href=\"\/wp60\/contact\/\">Discuss Your Project<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Client: Kim Fay East Africa \u2014 manufacturing and distribution. Engagement: fibre backbone and enterprise LAN, 2023. The challenge A manufacturing and distribution operation runs on systems that can&#8217;t wait for the network: ERP, warehouse, dispatch. Kim Fay needed a backbone with the capacity to carry all of it, and an access network managed as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryantelsystems.com\/wp60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}