Greener than Green

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has announced a new strategic partnership with TClarke, one of the UK's leading building services contractors, to offer an end-to-end voice and data solution as an integral part of TClarke's Intelligent Buildings offering. In selling, servicing and supporting Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solutions, TClarke will open up new opportunities within the building services market segment through its focus on the design, through to maintenance, of data centres.

TClarke's Intelligent Buildings division delivers all of the IP-based 'active' systems that sit on the cabling within a building – from lighting control and CCTV to telephony and Audio Visual capabilities. All of these elements can contribute to a customer's power consumption levels, and TClarke's expertise in reducing emissions was a key element in the decision to partner with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise based on this shared focus on lowering power consumption and overall TCO.

The new offering will also enable TClarke to better serve its customers throughout the entire project. The partnership will eliminate the common problem of having too many parties involved in a project and as such, will add a huge advantage to customers in making the entire design process, build and ongoing maintenance much simpler.