What are the essential things you need to consider when looking to build a wireless network? Whether you work in a primary school or the world’s tallest building, needs are not so different - reliability, ease of operation, security and flexibility. So why do so many organisations get it wrong first time around?

The goal of this session will be to provide real world insights and recommendations for Educational Institutions making the move to 802.11n or deploying a wireless network for the first time, by exploring the lessons learned from the past 2 years of over 1,000 Xirrus 11n installations.

Enterprises need business continuity for critical networked applications, but face an explosion of demand for less critical applications. There are strong cost management pressures on IT which make bandwidth upgrades difficult/unaffordable. Discover how to combine carrier-class quality & availability (MPLS) with high-bandwidth, low-cost Internet (VPN) - a hybrid networking strategy.

This session covers security risks associated with WLANs, including tools that are used by hackers to exploit wireless vulnerabilities. We will also cover key performance issues that affect deployments and holistic WLAN management solutions that can be leveraged to dramatically reduce TCO and achieve quicker ROI from your WLAN.

802.11n may signal the end of Ethernet, but by itself it’s no more than just faster connectivity. In the real world it needs to cope with an explosion in the number – and type – of connected clients and work in an increasingly congested RF environment. How can this be achieved?

An introduction to Ekahau’s Real Time Location Solution, reviewing the market drivers and financial benefits of this technology. Discover the advantages of deploying a single architecture software solution. This session will demonstrate the technical and functional deliverables, whilst evaluating the return on investment from an existing client.

A growing list of tools need network access but often lack visibility due to SPAN port and TAP shortages, high tool costs (and questionable ROI), and shortages of staff skillset or staff size. This session will review the problem in detail and outline techniques available today to address the situation.

Aerohive unleashes the potential of enterprise Wi-Fi, enabling customers to stop buying copper, to move applications to the air, and to maximise workforce productivity. The company's award-winning cooperative architecture eliminates costly controllers, saving money and providing unprecedented resiliency, up to 10X better application performance.

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Antrica supplies HD and SD Video over IP products and services including IP cameras, Video servers, decoders plus integration software for viewing and recording IP based video and audio. Applications include CCTV , broadcast, digital signage and general IP based video transport . Wired and wireless Video over IP /ethernet solutions. Solutions for sending PC images at SXGA 60Hz or Full HD video at around 1-4 MBits/sec over an IP 10/100 network or any IP based network are supported. Antrica pr...

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At APC Solutions we design, install and support wireless communications for all types of businesses & Goverment sectors across the UK & Ireland, Europe and South Africa. APC are the largest Platinum partner for Motorola in the UK and the only partner in the EMEA to offer the full "Inside Out" portfolio.

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Aruba Networks is a world leader in providing reliable and secure connectivity to the distributed enterprise network. Its 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LANs, provide an easy to implement, simple to manage, highly secure and reliable Wi-Fi infrastructure for all applications. Consistently rated by analysts Gartner to be in the Leader quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for enterprise wireless networks, and recognised to be the #2 vendor in terms of shipments of enterprise wireless networks, Aruba has i...

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Ekahau is the high performance leader in Wi-Fi-based RTLS solutions.These solutions are used in hundreds of hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gas companies, government agencies and the military. All you need is a Wi-Fi network, Ekahau Positioning Engine and Tags.

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FreeSpace Networks design and manufacture a complete range of high-performance industrial outdoor wireless Ethernet bridging solutions suitable for all CCTV, video, voice and data transmission requirements. All manufactured at our ISO9001-certified facilities in Derby UK, allowing us to ensure that every unit is built, tested and configured to meet the very highest quality standards. FreeSpace Networks products offers an unparalleled level of performance at the most competitive prices. Allowi...

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FWA Solutions Ltd is a company of expertly trained professionals dedicated to providing wireless infrastructure. FWA Solutions provides their customers with the expertise, equipment and support needed to deploy cost-effective data voice & video wireless networks. FWA Solutions customers include Telecoms Dealers, Enterprises, Wireless Internet Service Providers and CCTV providers.

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Integrating network solutions, management and technical support services 24x7, our expertise spans a range of technologies, turning technology into effective solutions, improving productivity, efficiency, and delivering real ROI. Fully accredited with our partners, we deliver secure, high-performance solutions. Clients include the largest SPs, Enterprise, and the Public Sector.

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Ipanema provide WAN Governance and Hybrid Network Unification solutions guaranteeing organizations full control of their business critical applications and network infrastructure. With solutions used extensively by many of the world’s largest telecom providers and enterprises across both private and public sectors, Ipanema controls and optimizes over 100,000 sites and in excess of 1,000 customers. Ipanema solutions are provided in the UKI by a broad selection of Partners including: BT, Bri...

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KMH Group Incorporated in 1984 the Company has grown to its present position as a leading supplier of Networking Solutions. • Data/Electrical Installation • Wireless Networking • Free Space Optics • IPCCTV • Cable Assemblies • Comms Racks The investment in quality, covering products services and staff, has been the foundation on which KMH has developed.

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A world leader in high definition video communications and telepresence, LifeSize pioneered HD video conferencing to make communicating at a distance as natural and effective as being in the same room. LifeSize is now a division of Logitech, sharing a vision of everywhere there is voice there should be video.

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Specialist Microwave and RF component supplier for Radar, EW, Satcom, Telecoms, Medical and Marine Market The company is active in the Defence,Telecoms, Satellite and Industrial & Scientific markets, supporting applications within the following product groups • Discrete components • Modular coaxial components • Waveguide components and assemblies • Infrastructure Equipment

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Motorola delivers seamless connectivity that puts real-time information in the hands of users, giving customers the agility they need to grow their business or better protect and serve the public. Working seamlessly together with its world-class devices, Motorola’s unrivaled wireless network solutions include indoor WLAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint, point-to-point networks and voice over WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful software for wireless network design, security...

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REACT Technologies are at the forefront of secure mobile networking, server virtualisation and Storage Area Networks. As a solution provider, our "value add" lies in our professional services and operational support. We can assist with all aspects of system deployment: From initial consultancy and design, through to test, commissioning and subsequent maintenance. We offer leading solutions for Disaster Recovery, Secure Digital Archiving, Wi-Fi, Network and user security, IP infrastructure,...

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Over the past five years, Storage Area Networks (SAN) have rapidly
developed. Confined to a single corporate site, SANs were traditionally
designed to improve internal resource utilization and to store business
data locally. Such deployments, however, had severe limitations,
restricting resource sharing across sites and creating potential corporatewide
vulnerability.

Financial and regulatory demands have now forced IT managers to
reassess their data center storage strategy. Enterprises including financial
institutions, insurance companies and utilities that require flexible, robust
and customized network solutions have started to employ geographically
dispersed SANs. Disaster recovery concepts that guarantee the survival of
essential data even in case of a catastrophic failure have become a
mandatory design requirement.

App Note - Optical Networks Disaster Recovery.pdf 264.44 kB

The security of staff and patients is of primary concern for St Andrew’s and this has resulted in the deployment of a secure wireless network across its campuses. Delivered by Motorola partner REACT Technologies, the infrastructure supports voice, data and real-time tracking of staff protection devices – indoors and outside.

StAndrews_CaseStudy.pdf 435.40 kB

The need to be close to customers, manufacturing facilities and specialized labor have required organizations to extend the traditional concept of "headquarters" to offices and factories hundreds or even thousands of miles away. However, along with the opportunities that come with workforce globalization, come the realities of dealing with data that sprawls across the organization. Whether the data is at the Munich branch or at HQ in New York, it is equally susceptible to loss, requiring that data recovery and security plans apply to all parts of the organization, regardless of location. Riverbed offers a family of appliances designed to work with your existing data and network infrastructure. Riverbed Steelhead appliances can accelerate your centralized backup and recovery processes, reduce bandwidth usage, and enable data and IT consolidation.

Centralized Data Backup.pdf 357.11 kB

As the global economic outlook continues to worsen, enterprises are being forced to reassess their data center strategies. Struggling against rising energy bills, increases in capital and
operating expenditures, and growing public demand for greener networks, IT managers are
starting to explore converged networking solutions to develop a single homogonous data
center infrastructure that could potentially eliminate inefficiencies and significantly reduce
costs.

WP_Does_SAN_go_Ethernet.pdf 156.05 kB

In today’s increasingly customer-centric environments, success depends in large part on a business or government organization’s ability to respond to customers and citizens quickly and intelligently. What do today’s CIOs and IT Directors need to deliver this level of responsiveness? They need IT networks that enable the enterprise-wide agility that allows their organizations to react quickly and appropriately to evolving constituent needs and demands.

Motorola wireless network solutions empower organizations to deliver the system-wide agility that helps keep operations efficient, productive and responsive…leading to customers and citizens who feel connected, involved, informed, appreciated and loyal.

WNS_WirelessAgility_Enterpirse_Govt.pdf 807.71 kB

With the growing importance of anywhere, anytime access for an increasingly dispersed workforce, IT managers are continually looking for ways to accelerate application performance across the wide area network (WAN). Point products are available to improve one or another aspect of WAN performance, such as insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication, or obstacles to IT consolidation. However, IT managers would like a comprehensive wide-area solution that addresses all of these problems, so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location. One company that is offering the benefits of wide-area data services (WDS) is Riverbed, whose product line, the Steelhead family of appliances, optimizes TCP/IP traffic and provides further application optimization to make it easier for organizations to accelerate the most important applications for users anywhere in the world.

WhitePaper_IDC-Riverbed ROI_WDS.pdf 178.54 kB

As networks, security threats, and other requirements increase in complexity, monitoring of
enterprise infrastructures has become a difficult yet crucial exercise. Monitoring Optimization, a
new solution for making sense of the chaos, has emerged as an ideal solution for maximizing
network coverage and maintaining optimal utilization of hardware monitoring tools. However,
there is a third variable at play – the productivity of the staff responsible for managing
monitoring, a staff that is shrinking in the wake of layoffs. This brief reviews how important the
third variable is, and how Monitoring Optimization is the only solution to manage all three
variables.

ITB-Productivityv 2.pdf 935.70 kB

With the increased reliance on information technology, the success of an organization is dependent on the high availability of its IT infrastructure, data, and applications. Today, data is the lifeline for organizations, and any unplanned downtime affects the company’s bottom line. Because of this, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity are no longer an option, they are a requirement. By combining Riverbed’s award-winning Wide-area Data Services (WDS) appliances with VMware’s virtualization solutions, enterprises can implement a high performance DR solution that will result in improved uptime of data while simultaneously reducing bandwidth costs.

VMware Disaster Recovery.pdf 480.87 kB

FINAL IDC White Paper.pdf 381.87 kB

The Tolly Group tested the Anue Net Tool Optimizer thoroughly, validating the company's claims that the device operates at line rate, even when managing complex aggregation and replication tasks at both 1G and 10G throughput rates.

Tolly209128Anue5200.pdf 364.65 kB

Overview of why you need to validate performance prior to deployment, and how network emulators can help you minimize risk once you deploy applications on the production network.

Winning on the WAN White Paper.pdf 1.14 MB

The Net Tool Optimizer links monitoring tools to any traffic on the network. The product combines unlimited connectivity options with the most advanced packet filtering capabilities in the industry, so each tool is fed only the data it needs from anywhere on the network. The 5204 is the 1GbE / Copper solution.

The product leads the Data Monitoring Switch market in ease of use and filtering, built on the only fully-integrated GUI available.

Traffic can be filtered based on Layer 2-to-4 criteria. It works with any tool – including security / IDS, application monitors, sniffers, protocol analyzers, compliance monitors, etc.

AnueSystems_5204_PB_RB_0110.pdf 510.03 kB

The Net Tool Optimizer links monitoring tools to any traffic on the network. The product combines unlimited connectivity options with the most advanced packet filtering capabilities in the industry, so each tool is fed only the data it needs from anywhere on the network. The 5236 is the 10GbE / Fibre solution.

The product leads the Data Monitoring Switch market in ease of use and filtering, built on the only fully-integrated GUI available.

Traffic can be filtered based on Layer 2-to-4 criteria. It works with any tool – including security / IDS, application monitors, sniffers, protocol analyzers, compliance monitors, etc.

AnueSystems_5236_PB_RB_0110_NTO2.2.pdf 389.58 kB

ANT-32000 HD Video server can encode or decode PC screen images or Video in various formats and send this over an IP network. Remotely the video or PC images can be decoded using either a PC (Internet Explorer) or another ANT-32000 acting as a decoder. End to end video and audio plus control signals can be sent at various data rates and quality settings over a 10/100 network or the internet.

ANT-32000_article_small.pdf 182.95 kB

Converged Infrastructure:
A converged infrastructure enables an organisation to do more with fewer resources. Converged Infrastructure solutions drive business agility, innovation and performance improvements, while reducing risk, complexity and cost.
IT proliferation has stretched many businesses to breaking point, and business agility is severely constrained. Converged infrastructure, a holistic solution that enables all end user sub systems to work in tandem on a single IP network, offers new and more effective ways of working which address the following typical challenges:

• Escalating IT management and administration costs
• A desire to move mission-critical environments to standards-based infrastructure
• Limited datacenter space; need to improve server consolidation, virtualisation, and utilisation
• Risk associated with older legacy systems
• A need to grow and scale capacity in line with shrinking IT budgets
• Break free of proprietary solutions to achieve true inter-operability through the adoption of open industry standards
• An approach to unifying multiple communications methods: voice, e-mail, messaging, video etc
• Security threats