Riverlite has been awarded Premier Partner status from Cisco, reflecting the IT managed services company’s new depth of skills in Cisco technologies. Riverlite’s customers include TunTum Housing and Action Housing. Premier Partner status is given to those organisations that meet set Cisco criteria. To achieve the new higher standard, Riverlite demonstrated its strong sales, technical…
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Capita launches Cisco UC service
A new cloud-based unified communications service aimed at helping housing providers streamline collaboration has been launched by Capita. The Cisco-based Capita Unified Communications in the Cloud service combines the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) with Capita’s secure cloud and service management expertise to deliver collaborative technologies including instant messaging, voice, video, conferencing and presence from…
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Country-wide wi-fi from Wales & West with Cisco Meraki
Wales & West Housing is rolling out a Cisco Meraki-based free wi-fi network spanning 120 locations across Wales. Richard Troote, head of ICT, Wales & West Housing, said, “The government’s digital inclusion strategy, which aims to get 90 per cent of the UK population online digitally capable by 2020, is very relevant to us. Almost…
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Regenda 100 per cent wireless with Cisco Meraki
The Regenda Group is using cloud-based technology from Cisco Meraki to turn its new Merseyside office into a completely wireless environment, with two Cisco Meraki wireless access points connecting the housing provider’s array of mobile equipment to its corporate data network. The system was implemented by the Cisco partner Equanet. John Paul Petryczuk, ICT mobile…
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Roaming access for MHS Homes
MHS Homes’ decision to move its entire operations, from multiple locations across Kent into a single, purpose-built head office in Chatham, was an ideal opportunity to review and restructure its operations, in particular the ICT infrastructure. MHS Homes was formed in 1990 and is now Kent’s largest independent landlord with 7500 homes in the Medway…
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Intelligent technology closes gap with the private sector
While the concept of intelligent shared buildings and mobile working is becoming common in the private sector, the public sector is struggling to keep up. It was estimated in 2007 that there were properties worth £220 billion and almost 6 million workers in the UK public sector. Furthermore, by 2009 there will be 16 million…
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