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Crown Golf is Europe’s largest owner and operator of golf clubs, with 57 golf courses across 33 locations. It aims to provide its members and visitors with an exceptional golfing experience that suit a wide range of lifestyles and needs. But with plans to expand, bolstering its connectivity between company sites and its Berkshire headquarters was crucial.

The challenge

Following an acquisition, the business tripled in size overnight and with its ambition to open at least two additional UK sites each year, Crown Golf needed flexible, robust and scalable connectivity to support this expansion. With its employee base grew from 100 to 250 in one year, Crown Golf urgently needed to review email security, to protect its network.

The solution

TalkTalk Business recommended connecting all of Crown Golf’s sites to its head office to facilitate multisite communications. This gave the business greater resilience and flexibility, and the upgraded connection increased online speed and performance. Crown Golf selected TalkTalk Business’s latest email security system, and by reducing the amount of spam it received, its network can make more efficient use of business-critical data. Monitoring systems were also implemented to alert both Crown Golf and TalkTalk Business engineers, should connectivity issues develop in the future.

The outcome

Crown Golf now has consolidated, centralised business systems which are easy and quick to access from any site. With a dual solution in place for all connections, the business has guaranteed, uninterrupted internet access that’s vital to its busy operations.

"Facilitating the smooth running of the business, the TalkTalk Business solution enables the IT department to monitor all sites, and can accommodate new sites at extremely short notice. TalkTalk Business manages and supports all of our hardware, which is one less headache for our very busy IT department."

IT Manager, Crown Golf

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