To identify a solution for his in-building wireless coverage needs, Carson called on Richard Glasgow, CEO of Glasgow Group, a telecommunications and network consulting firm, specializing in communications infrastructure, telephony systems, and data center technologies. After a competitive procurement process, Glasgow recommended the InterReach Unison® system. “We looked at several systems, and InterReach Unison had the best architecture because it offered significantly easier deployment and lower costs,” says Glasgow | CASE STUDY CHALLENGE Kirkpatrick Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP K L Gates is a large corporate law firm that represents capital markets participants and leading global corporations growth and middle-market companies and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities educational institutions and philanthropic organizations. The current firm which includes some 1 400 lawyers was formed from the January 2007 merger of Kirkpatrick Lockhart Nicholson Graham K LNG and Preston Gates Ellis PGE . The combined firm has offices in Anchorage Beijing Berlin Boston Coeur d Alene Dallas Harrisburg Hong Kong London Los Angeles Miami Newark New York Orange County Palo Alto Pittsburgh Portland San Francisco Seattle Spokane Taipei and Washington. Growing firms like K L Gates are constantly expanding their offices and this was the case in 2005 when K LNG was planning to relocate its Washington . office to a new 11-story structure at the corner of 16th and K streets. In Washington . commercial buildings are limited in height to fewer than 15 floors. Since builders can t go up they often go below ground adding office space along with parking underground. In addition to the 11 above-ground floors the firm s new building featured a two-level underground garage plus a level of offices below the garage a level that would house a law library as well as some 60 administrative services employees. TAMING A HOSTILE WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT We knew before we ever began remodeling the space that we would have a problem with cellular and BlackBerry coverage in the underground offices says Rodney Carson Director of Administration CASE STUDY for the . office. When we did a site survey we also found out that the whole building had poor coverage even at the windows you couldn t get a signal in many places. Washington . is a challenging environment for cell phone users because of the high density of government buildings with tight security and their own secure .
