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?

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?

Aastra will examine the options available for mobility in and out of the work place, ranging from mobile handsets using fixed mobile convergence making the handset become part of the PBX, to utilising on site DECT handsets, a high quality, tried and tested technology.

Aastra will examine the options available for mobility in and out of the work place,ranging from mobile handsets using fixed mobile convergence making the handset become part of the PBX,to utilising on site DECT handsets,a high quality, tried and tested technology.

8el is in the business of helping companies get the most out of their voice and data communications. We are an established communications provider focused on managed solutions, including VoIP, SIP trunking, ISP services, WAN and LAN infrastructure to UK businesses. 8el solutions are designed to match modern working practices, breaking geographical boundaries, to create a communications experience that allows for flexible and mobile working. Our core values are built to put the customer...

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Aastra Telecom (UK) Ltd is the United Kingdom business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited, (TSX:“AAH”), a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops and delivers innovative communications products and applications for businesses. Aastra’s operations are truly global with more than 50 million installed lines around the world and a direct and indirect presence in more than 100 countries. Aastra is entirely...

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ADC KRONE's TrueNet® Structured Cabling System is an end-to-end, integrated portfolio of high-performance copper and fibre cable, connectivity and cable management solutions produced by a single global manufacturer for applications from the data centre to the desktop. TrueNet® is the only solution to offer a zero bit error warranty, guaranteeing full data bandwidth from any port to any port 24x7, 365 days a year across the entire portfolio of singlemode and multimode fibre, shielded and un...

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We are a global provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions. With software-automated Optical+Ethernet transmission technology, we build the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. Our FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. Please visit us at www.advaoptical.com.

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ApplianSys offers a range of hardware and virtual appliances, including solutions for: * Simplifying DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management, and * Enhancing VoIP by streamlining available capacity and radically improving QoS Customers include Global 100, governments/public sector, ISPs and SMEs in 50+ countries. For more information visit www.appliansys.com

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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, off...

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Connections Recruitment is both proud and excited to be participating in this years IP Expo. The exhibition offers us an excellent platform to promote the interests of our clients, many of whom are themselves exhibiting here today, as well as a number of start up and smaller companies who would hope to be here in their own right in years to come.

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Corning Cable Systems, part of Corning’s telecommunications segment, is a leading manufacturer of fibre optic communications system solutions for voice, data and video network applications worldwide. We offer the broadest range of end-to-end fibre optic and shielded copper product solutions for customers' telecommunications networks. We put companies at the forefront of network innovation, pioneering many of the global products and solutions commonly used in state-of-the-art cabling systems....

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ONE GLOBAL TEAM. ONE FOCUSED GOAL: YOUR SUCCESS. We have a world-class, IP-based network. We can deliver your voice, video and data traffic virtually anywhere on the planet – quickly, securely, reliably. Furthermore, we have a team of telecommunications professionals dedicated to helping your business grow and succeed. Independent surveys demonstrate that our customer service and our employees are the key reasons companies do business with Global Crossing. These surveys indicate that we...

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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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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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Founded in 1973, Midland Communications is a leading provider of telecommunications and videoconferencing; delivering unified communications that enable efficient business processes and flexible ways of working across single or multi-sites organizations. With multi-vendor partnerships, including Mitel and Sun Microsystems, we have specific expertise in Contact Centres, IP Telephony, voice, data and video integration, plus solutions for Teleworking and Mobility, we are at the forefront of...

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Mitel is a leading provider of voice, video, and collaborative communications solutions and services for businesses of all sizes. We operate in over 90 countries, offering easy access to our sales and service organizations via our own network of over 100 offices, which support over 1,500 value-added resellers and partners around the world. Our entrepreneurial heritage, built upon agility and flexibility in the way we serve our customers, has continued over the company’s history. Our recent me...

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Openaire & the Teleware Group Plc offer partners access to its innovative GSM Mobile Network solution 'Wire 3', a hosted PBX solution for the SME market. As an OEM supplier Openaire offers its Clarity brand of IP and GSM desk phones as well as the first integrated VoIP/GSM desk phone.

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SpiriTel is a leading communications services provider and award winning supplier of IP solutions to UK businesses. Our comprehensive portfolio includes calls, line rental, broadband, telephone installation/maintenance, cabling infrastructure and converged services; network design/management, WiFi and VoIP, along with 24/7 customer care and nationwide engineering coverage.

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Spitfire are a leading business Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) and Internet Service Provider, as well as being a business telecomms operator. Spitfire are one of the only ITSPs able to offer a complete end-to-end service, via our own networks that covers all aspects of VoIP including SIP Trunks and Hosted Telephony. The result is a service that actually works and delivers business quality VoIP. As an ISP Spitfire have the widest range of SDSL in the UK, with products rangi...

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Ernst & Young, one of Europe’s largest auditing and consulting firms, was looking for a way to consolidate three of its European data centres into one central location to save costs and increase the flexibility of its information technology infrastructure.
To meet this challenge, Ernst & Young worked with Corning to plan and install a fibre optic cabling solution for the consolidated data centre. Utilizing its Plug and Play™ system, a pre-terminated, optical-fibre and copper-cabling system, Corning optimized the assembly of Ernst & Young’s network infrastructure in the structured data-centre environment.
The modular components that make up the Plug and Play system were simple to
configure and quickly installed, connected, and put into operation.

Corning Ernst and Young Case Study.pdf 112.01 kB

Wycombe District Council significantly improves customer service, handling customer calls faster and more efficiently with the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise solution.

Wycombe District Council - UC.pdf 456.60 kB

Heritage Automotive...Intelligate helps to drive motor group success

Aastra Heritage Automotive.pdf 4.73 MB

Many benefits of deploying an IP Communications (IPC) system are, by now, well documented. However, once the basic IPC foundation is set, there are many additional applications that can leverage this converged IP network even more fully. Quantifying the real productivity gains of these relatively new value-added Unified Communications technologies is difficult, yet if armed with such information, potential adopters could make a far more comprehensive ROI justification for their planned deployments. One source of such information is Based on a survey of 244 small, medium, and large organisations presently using or planning to deploy Unified Communications applications, this paper outlines both the challenges that those applications address and the actual benefits that current adopters experience.

Cisco UC Applications, uses & benefits.pdf 571.66 kB

As a global company, TANDBERG. now part of Ciisco, has a genuine concern for the environment. They believe that embracing green practices and technologies is not only a corporate social responsibility, but also makes good business sense. Video provides a practical alternative for companies looking to reduce their carbon footprint through decreased travel and telework programs, as well as provides a key competitive advantage through increased productivity.

TANDBERG, now part of Cisco, is committed to making environmental responsibility an integral part of its own corporate culture and strives to continually reduce the Company’s overall environmental impact through company-wide green programs and policies.

Visual Communications is green.pdf 464.66 kB

Because enterprise applications are rarely tested under WAN conditions, expectations of performance are often at variance to actual performance.Anue Systems Network Emulators are essential tools for effectively developing and deploying enterprise applications. They provide the ability to accurately and precisely emulate real-world network conditions prior to deployment, reducing development schedules and support cost, avoiding live troubleshooting and downtime, and consequently increasing revenue and competitive advantage. Emulating your production network enables you to understand the behavior of an application before it goes live, allowing you to determine if it will meet service level objectives (SLO) and to correctly identify the factors affecting performance.

WPNetworkedAppsRB0310.pdf 707.71 kB

FINAL IDC White Paper.pdf 381.87 kB

Azlan views the concept of Unified Communications as an exciting evolution of communications and collaboration technologies. Evolution, because this technology segment has not just suddenly appeared, but is the integration of both old and new technologies based on “open standards”. To support it's distribution Channel in this growing market segment Azlan has developed deep relationships with leading vendors to create an “open architecture’ solution set.

Open standards are essential in order “Unify” Communications, they provide a platform on which technology can be integrated. This is the key to the way that Azlan adds value to both its vendors and injtegrating partners. By working with strategic vendors to create a Unified Communications reference architecture, Azlan is able to work in turn with its partners to introduce appropriate technology to compliment their existing vendor relationships and to extend their solutions portfolio.

Azlan is keen to talk to both End Users about potential UC solutions (and Azlan will introduce them to a suitably qualified implementation partner) and to VAR's and integrators who would like to broaden their UC technology portfolio.

Corning’s latest fibre innovation broadens the ClearCurve product family into a whole new world … enterprise networks. Corning ClearCurve OM3 (and OM4*) multimode fibre is designed to withstand tight bends and challenging cabling routes with substantially less signal loss than traditional multimode fibre. This new optical fibre allows designers, installers and operators of enterprise networks (including local area networks, data centres and industrial networks) to use optical fibre in more places by delivering all of the bandwidth benefits of laser-optimized multimode optical fibre in a package that is easier to handle and install and offers more robust system performance than copper cabling.

Corning ClearCurve_A4.pdf 167.88 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

A low-cost process in which discrete semiconductor chips are flip-attached by thermocompression bonding to 30-micron-diameter gold bumps on fine-featured passive integrated circuits was employed in the fabrication of diode harmonic mixers for use over the 71-76GHz and 81-86 GHz ranges. Incorporated in the substrate were high- precision grounded heat sinks, semi-lumped filters, and matching networks in low-loss microstrip format. Measurements demonstrate an upconversion loss minimum of 6 dB and downconversion loss minimum of 8 dB respectively. The performance is attributable to the high cutoff frequency of the discrete diodes and the low loss of the passive circuitry.

Endwave 1.pdf 246.25 kB

Pretium EDGE Solutions allow for up to 35 percent faster deployment, up to 25 percent faster moves, adds and changes (MACs), and offer up to 100 percent more density than traditional preterminated solutions.
Enabled by Corning® ClearCurve® multimode fiber, Pretium EDGE Solutions feature preterminated and tested multi-fiber assemblies, or trunks, with a minimum bend radius as small as five times the outer diameter of the cable, compared to 10 times in traditional trunks.

Pretium EDGE Solutions interconnect cables enable more cables to be routed and stored in the same amount of space without interfering with initial installation or MACs.

Pretium EDGE Brochure_review.pdf 897.32 kB

The ADVA Optical Networking FSP 3000 is a scalable Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM) platform specifically designed for service providers
and large enterprises requiring a flexible and cost-effective solution that
will multiplex, transport and protect high-speed data, storage, voice and
video applications. The FSP 3000 facilitates bandwidth scale and service
flexibility in access, backhaul, metro core and regional network applications,
while supporting the creation of new revenue opportunities for high-speed
Ethernet and Storage Area Networking (SAN) services.

FSP_3000.pdf 374.02 kB

Corning Cable Systems’ FutureCo EA System has been specially designed to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBase-T) over 100 meters with enhanced performance margin.
FutureCom EA is part of Corning’s FutureCom family of high-performance copper cabling solutions for premises networks. Its new shielded FutureCom S500 core copper
RJ45 module has achieved independent third-party Cat.6A component certification.
The system is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.3an and Class EA (ISO/IEC 11801) standards for 10 Gigabit/s Ethernet transmission.

FutureCom EA System 2-pager EN.pdf 564.33 kB

SIP is VoIP for business and with Spitfire's unique position of providing the underlying connectivity and call termination via it's own networks Spitfire are able to deliver the same quality as normal ISDN30e on its SIP services at a saving of around 50% on traditional call costs and line rental.
Spitfire SIP trunks have also completed interoperability testing with over 15 leading telephone system manufacturers allowing a fantasic range of options to use with the service.

Spitfire SIP Trunks 4pp GO LO.pdf 236.84 kB