Xstrata Canada. Wiring a giant.
Xstrata, one of the world’s largest mining companies, asked ET Group to design and install new AV systems in its new Canadian HQ and its international locations. For Xstrata’s main offices – the top three floors of Toronto’s First Canadian Place – ET installed three videoconferencing suites with dual 40” HD-LCD screens, audio conferencing and lighting control. ET also fitted three boardrooms with fully integrated, automated HD video projection systems (motorized screens/projectors that lower from the ceiling), lighting and blinds control, audioconferencing and electrified privacy glass.
Delivering on highly complex requirements
For Xstrata’s large nickel division ET installed site-to-site videoconferencing (operable independently of head office) with multi-point capability, enabling head office to communicate with all locations. ET equipped multiple meeting rooms with our infoVISION High-VU employee communication system, which delivers in-house information feeds from disparate sources simultaneously. Also critical to this deployment was full content sharing – or the fast exchange of spreadsheets, photos, PowerPoint files, etc. – operable in a videoconferencing context. All Xstrata systems run on the company’s private network.
Full international communications, content sharing and training
Having completed the Toronto installations, ET designed/installed HD videoconferencing systems in Xstrata sites in Norway, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Australia, Sudbury/Timmins Ontario, and Laval/Rouyn Quebec. ET furnished a distance-learning office with full videoconferencing capabilities, enabling Toronto staff to train personnel internationally without the need to visit remote sites or have site personnel fly to a central training location. And most recently, ET designed/installed a videoconferencing solution enabling Xstrata to communicate with customers and vendors outside their internal network.