Industry News

Nimans reports record video conferencing sales

Stuart — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:52:29 +0000

2012 is set to become a milestone year for video conferencing sales, according to distributor Nimans where record breaking demand for devices from manufacturers such as Radvision, Panasonic and Polycom has surged by 40%.

Lower cost of entry, the continued economic slowdown and high fuel prices are some of the many contributory factors according to Head of Conferencing Sales, Ian Brindle.

BT Group posts strong Q3 results

Stuart — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:11 +0000

BT Group has posted strong results for the third quarter with earnings and cash generation remaining positive.

The results showed that adjusted free cash flow was up £65 million to £634 million and adjusted earnings per share was up 13 percent to 6.1 pence.

BT holds successful trials of FTTP on demand

Stuart — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:16:35 +0000

BT has held successful trials of 'FTTP on demand' in St Agnes, Cornwall.

This solution allows additional fibre to be run on demand to a home or business in a Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) enabled area, providing the customer with ultra-fast Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) broadband.

ShoreTel enters hosted UC market with M5 Networks acquisition

Stuart — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:02:34 +0000

ShoreTel has embarked on a technological diversification strategy and secured a presence in the hosted UC market following the acquisition of M5 Networks. M5 provides more than 2,000 companies with enterprise-grade communications on a subscription basis, and the acquisition enables ShoreTel to provide a choice between on-premise and hosted UC solutions.

Venture fund backs B2B development company

Stuart — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:53:23 +0000

A niche B2B consultancy company which helps IT resellers to grow their business has received a significant investment from The North West Fund for Venture Capital, through fund manager EV.

Channel Intellect, which is based in Wirral, works with Cisco Partners throughout the UK to help them develop their business and also advises Cisco on how to get the best from its Partner network.

Westcon Group named EMEA Distributor of the Year by Jabra

Stuart — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:50:35 +0000

Westcon Group's convergence business practice has been named EMEA Distributor of the Year by Jabra.

Westcon was honoured at Jabra's EMEA Partner Conference in Rome on 26th January, bringing together more than 220 partners and key sponsors Avaya and Microsoft.

ScanSource on track with training courses

Stuart — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:47:46 +0000

ScanSource Communications Europe trained more than 1,200 communications resellers across Europe through its education programme ScanSource University last year.

Engineers box clever with ByBox delivery service

Stuart — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:04:55 +0000

ByBox, a provider of solutions to the field service market, specialises in streamlining supply chains across the UK and its link up with Hartwood Services has proved to be a win-win for both companies.

Griffin makes selling faster connectivity easy

Stuart — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:52:20 +0000

Griffin has adopted a three-pronged approach to help resellers meet growing demand for faster connectivity.

Channel Telecom launches MobileOffice FMC solution

Stuart — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:09:53 +0000

Channel Telecom has launched MobileOffice, a FMC solution with free on-net calls when using the firm's hosted telephony service and as an added-value feature for its SIP trunk offering.

MobileOffice supports a range of mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones. The solution can also be used as a soft client for computers running Windows or Apple operating systems.