Technical Bulletin

Future ready Data Centre

“to go” for Actelion

Background

Actelion is a biopharmaceutical company with its corporate

headquarters in Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland. Actelion was

founded in 1997 and its shares have been listed on the

SWX Swiss Exchange with the ticker symbol ALTN since

2000. The company is focused on the discovery,

development and commercialisation of synthetic, small-

molecule drugs as innovative treatments to serve unmet

medical needs. Actelion has a proven track record in drug

discovery and has significant expertise in two research

platforms – G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), which

are proteins embedded in the cell wall that receive various

chemical messages and aspartyl proteases, a class of

natural enzymes. Actelion has subsidiaries in over 20

countries including the United States, Canada, Brazil,

Australia, Japan, Switzerland and a number of EU

countries. These subsidiaries provide or will provide

distribution, sales and marketing services.

Actelion

Pharmaceuticals Ltd

www.actelion.com

Location:

Allschwil, Switzerland

Vertical Market:

Pharmaceutical

Application:

Data Centre

www.panduit.com

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Future ready Data Centre “to go” for Actelion Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd www.actelion.com Location: Allschwil, Switzerland Vertical Market: Pharmaceutical Application: Data Centre www.panduit.com Background Actelion is a biopharmaceutical company with its corporate headquarters in Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland. Actelion was founded in 1997 and its shares have been listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with the ticker symbol ALTN since 2000.
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The Challenge Given their rapid expansion, Actelion had to increase their data centre capacity very quickly to service the business needs and be future ready. The data centre in the companyʼs headquarters in Allschwill couldnʼt offer requisite power and space, so the company decided to outsource the data centre to the IWB Telehouse in Basel. IWB was a “green field” data centre.
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The Result The quick installation time allowed Actelion to change from a location they had outgrown to a new one with a larger and more reliable data centre in a very short time. The features of the new data centre would also reduce the cost of MACs in the future. Lionel Cottin, IT Network Security Manager comments, “For its new data centre Actelion was looking for a high density copper and fibre 10Gb cabling solution.