Corporate Computer, Inc. Case Studies

A dedicated NEC Computer dealer since 1980 and a data processing service bureau since 1968, Corporate Computer, Inc. is one of the few established companies with a solid reputation based on customer satisfaction.  Our management and staff have served the Pacific Northwest for over thirty years.  We can configure, program, and service the systems to meet your specific needs.  CCI is proud to have served premier companies like Kaiser Aluminum, Pacific Lumber, Company, Precor Corporation USA, Encompass Mechanical Corporation, Shuttle Express, US West New Vector Group, Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting System and many other great firms.

Pacific Lumber Company (http://www.palco.com)

Pacific Lumber Company, a 133-year-old institution in Northern California utilized Corporate Computer, Inc. to help update their network functionality.  Corporate Computer, Inc. designed and deployed the Internet system and policy for Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO).  Working directly for Palco’s CEO, with strict orders to provide a reliable, safe and most cost effective solution for Internet functionality, Corporate Computer, Inc. provided the design and implementation of their corporate wide email system, and corporate Internet access solution.  Expensive wide area connections to other branch offices were eliminated and replaced with low cost Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections using our GuardPoint© VPN appliances

Using IBM Servers and Open Source software, Corporate Computer, Inc. created a corporate wide email system that has the functionality that is comparable to the best of the proprietary email systems.  Using our Guardpoint VPN services and GuardPoint© Managed Internet Security system, Palco is able to provide Internet access for their company as well as connect users to the companies’ resources over the Internet.

 MAXXAM Corporation (Kaiser Aluminum)

MAXXAM Corporation, the parent company of Palco and Kaiser Aluminum were so satisfied with the makeover that we did for Palco, that they enlisted our assistance to reorganize the restructuring of  Kaiser Aluminum’s and Maxxam’s networks.  Using our “network blueprint” MAXXAM were able to successfully split the 1000 node network into two smaller networks in less than 90 days.

 Crown Capital Companies MULTI-TENANT UNIT (MTU) properties MorningRun  Website  TUT Systems Case Studies

Crown Capital Corporation (CCC) is the owner of Morning Run Apartments, a 21-building, 222-unit, MTU property in Monroe, Washington, a few miles northeast of Seattle.

 CCI and CCC observed the steady increase in the awareness of, and demand for, advanced communication services among MTU residents. They also watched the early efforts by many MTU owners, in attempts to differentiate their properties from their competitors, try to meet this new demand from residents for advanced communication services.  High-speed Internet access and other advanced communication services allow MTU owners to attract new residents and reduce the resident churn rate. At the same time, the retrofit deployment of such advanced communication services in existing MTU properties helps prevent such owners’ multi-million-dollar MTU properties from becoming “second tier” assets, compared to more recently built MTU properties that include advanced communication services in the original design.

Our goal was to preserve and enhance the value of a multi-million-dollar real estate asset by avoiding functional obsolescence in the Internet era

The Morning Run Apartments' site plan presented a challenge for CCI, because its 222 units are in 21 two- and three-story buildings, spread across approximately 11 acres, with some residential units more than 1,800 feet from the central location for Internet feed.

 In late December 2001, Morning Run Apartments began providing its approximately 600 residents with broadband Internet connectivity, using equipment.  Bandwidth is provided to all Morning Run residents, using the existing pre-wired telephone jacks in each apartment.

Morning Run residents are provided, at no charge, with a 64 Kb/s connection and are given the option to upgrade.  Residents may choose among 128 Kb/s, 256 Kb/s, 512 Kb/s, and 1.024 Mb/s bandwidths for an additional cost. (http://www.morningrun.com/clubdsl ).  We made it possible for Morning Run Apartments to provide priority service to users who subscribe to the premium 512 Kb/s or 1.024 Mb/s service. Morning Run Apartments also provide, as requested by tenants, static IP addresses and VPN connectivity to remote servers, thus facilitating secure, encrypted telecommuting for Morning Run residents.

 All Morning Run residents' computers that are connected to the Internet through the Morning Run broadband Ethernet connection are located behind a proprietary firewall, which increases their protection from Internet hackers.

The Internet architecture supplied by CCI supports VPN connectivity to VPN-equipped remote servers. This feature enables always-on, secure, encrypted broadband Internet connections between all Morning Run Apartment homes and remote, VPN-enabled office servers. Morning Run residents can enjoy easy, inexpensive, and secure telecommuting to their office networks.

This free, "always-on" Internet connection allows simultaneous use of the resident’s telephone and access to the Internet, all without the need for Morning Run Apartment residents to pay for an additional telephone line.

"By rolling out broadband Internet access to all Morning Run Apartment units and including the base fee for Internet connectivity in the monthly rent, CCC essentially enjoys a 100% ‘take rate’ and a speedy return on its investment. Whereas basic 64 Kb/s Internet access is free to each resident, premiums received from tiered services provide additional revenue while increased tenant retention, higher occupancy rates, and reduced tenant turn over all translate into increased net revenue inflows, all additive to revenue streams to the property.

TURNER BROADCASTING 1990 GOODWILL GAMES (http://www.goodwillgames.com/ )

A two-year project involving Corporate Computer, Inc. as the exclusive contractor for designing, programming, implementing and managing the computer network system for the 1990 Goodwill games International Broadcasting Center. 

This wide area network of 128 users was the largest single server NOVELL Network ever accomplished successfully and the first successful PC LAN ever completed in a mission critical broadcasting environment.  The TBS computer network managed the entire TBS internal operations as well as the teleprompting and scheduling systems for all of the 1990 Goodwill games.  Published in every major trade magazine this innovative network design was also featured on the cover of PC WEEK magazine. 

ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT

A joint project venture with Microsoft, 3Com, and Corporate Computer, Inc., the Issaquah School District Technology Information Project (TIP) was formed in 1991 to create the first major school district wide Internet.  This project became the world’s largest Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager network Internet.  At its implementation it became a 700-node system consisting of 400 Macs and 300 PCs.  This network at the time was a state of the art T-3 / T-1 wide area frame relay fast packet switched network.  Corporate Computer, Inc. was the vendor providing the software and networking expertise for what became the first school district on the Internet.

SHUTTLE EXPRESS AIRPORTER

Using Windows NT, NT SQL Server, and wireless messaging, we created a high-tech reservation and dispatch system that allowed Shuttle Express to service over 1000 customers a day.   This CCI developed state of art system was a feature case study during the June 20, 1994 satellite broadcast at the Microsoft Bizcast conference.