HM Prisons 'Videolinks'

Our groundbreaking Videolinks Project on behalf of HM Prisons which links courts and prisons throughout the UK won two top awards at the AV Interactive Annual Awards.

Criteria used to judge included innovation, company performance, the use of appropriate communications techniques and, most important of all, evidence of business benefit to the AVusers.

The pioneering Videolinks project, which is the largest of its kind in the world to date over an Internet Protocol virtual private network, has been awarded,

“Videoconferencing Project of the year followed by the ultimate accolade of being the events overall Grand Prix winner”.

The schemes innovation and genuine business benefits impressed the awards judges, describing it as, “ a clear winner…a carefully implemented example of how AV technology can work in the public sector.

The project involved 57 prisons and 156 courts in the UK being linked using Sony videoconferencing over an IP-based Virtual Private Network (IP VPN).

The network, designed and installed by Martin Dawes provides significant cost savings by reducing the use of high security prisoner transport, and also offers improved security as well as prisoner welfare benefits. In addition it reduces the amount of time that prisoners spend on remand by making it possible to increase the number of hearings taking place.

For further information please contact MDS