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    Advanced CNS and award-winning high-density Wi-Fi delivering an outstanding experience for 23,500 music lovers.
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    Battersea Power Station is a 42 acre mixed-use development which is home to shops, bars, restaurants, hotels and luxury apartments, leisure and entertainment venues, parks and historical spaces.
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    At Ideal, we always look to employ ambitious people. To keep them happy, we therefore have to ensure that each person has a pathway that enables them to learn and progress in a way that suits them. That’s what the Ideal Academy is all about.
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    When Your Custom AI Becomes the Attack Vector – Why Building Secure-by-Design Matters Just as Much as Speed to Market. Enterprises across every sector are rushing to build custom AI capabilities; from internal chatbots and AI agents that streamline operations to customer-facing agents that transform service delivery. Yet whilst organisations focus on capturing AI’s transformative potential, many are inadvertently expanding their attack surface and introducing risks that didn’t exist just months ago.
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- - Managing a Smart Building: A Modern Approach to Networked Environments
    Smart Buildings are no longer futuristic concepts—they’re living, evolving ecosystems. Managing the underlying networks that power them, particularly a Converged Network System (CNS), requires a new mindset.
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    At Ideal, we always look to employ ambitious people. To keep them happy, we therefore have to ensure that each person has a pathway that enables them to learn and progress in a way that suits them. That’s what the Ideal Academy is all about.
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22 Bishopsgate

22 Bishopsgate

Delivering enhanced customer experience through a Converged Network System

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a 42 acre mixed-use development which is home to shops, bars, restaurants, hotels and luxury apartments, leisure and entertainment venues, parks and historical spaces.

Skanska – Battersea

Skanska – Battersea

A highly-intelligent 10G network infrastructure supporting one of the most exciting and innovative mixed-use neighbourhoods in the world.

IKEA

IKEA

14 years supporting and maintaining the Cisco network infrastructure that keeps this retail giant reliably connected across the UK.

Arun District Council

Arun District Council

A Wi-Fi upgrade has transformed Arun District Council’s working environment and seen them achieve the highest audit standard.

Rouse

Rouse

Keeping this international law firm secure and connected with 24/7/365 support across 12 jurisdictions worldwide.

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What do our client’s say?

“Ideal’s truly end-to-end converged network solution is critical to ensuring our building is futureproofed, scalable and secure in an ever-evolving world.”

Dan Cope Head of Technology, Dar UK
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“Ideal have a strong ability to execute and manage complicated projects and have been a trusted technology partner in the success of Battersea…”

Stuart Bailey Preconstruction Manager, Skanska
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