Watchguard Winter Warmers!

Exceptional Trade-Up

Buy a Firebox X Core X750e software bundle trade-up or a Firebox X Core X1250e software bundle trade-up and get the Watchguard box for FREE!

Peak HA Bundle

Purchase any Watchguard Peak Firebox Firewall and get a second identical unit for 50% off. This bundle includes a free 5 pack of WSM Licences.

Firebox X Core 1250e Software Bundle Offer

Purchase the Firebox X Core X1250e Software Bundle and receive Fireware Pro FREE!

For further information on these offers please give us a call on 0870 7874 500 or e-mail watchguard@abtecnet.com.

BT Business makes VoIP local

   

Small UK businesses can now enjoy the benefits of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and still maintain a local identity, due to the launch of Geographic Numbers from BT Business. This allows you to use a local phone number with BT Business Broadband Voice. You can benefit from the free additional VoIP line that comes with a BT Business Total Broadband package. This offers capped-price calls to mobile and international destinations, but now gives your customers a local number to call.

Recent BT research showed that 66% of consumers would rather buy goods and services locally. When the service is combined with BT Office Communicator, Broadband Voice customers can use a local number to make and receive calls, use instant messaging (IM), text (SMS) and make video calls via their computer, wherever they are.

Geographic Numbers cost £2.99 (excl. VAT) per number per month. To find out more information on this new service give us a call on 01858 438500.

BT Launches MobileExpress Teleworker

MobileXpress (MX) Private Teleworker provides you with the tools you need to manage a large network of low-cost, broadband VPN connections for your home workers or for small branch offices. And the product’s service wrap means you can easily integrate support processes into your existing IT support infrastructures. BT’s investment in Broadband means it is now possible to enjoy the benefits of a fully ‘on-net’ experience when working from home or remotely anywhere in the UK.With broadband lines linked directly into your VPN, your end-users’ PC’s are not vulnerable to attack from the Internet. And because those PCs can only be connected to the public websites via your own central internal gateways, homeworkers have the same protection as office based staff. Although MX Private Teleworker has been designed specifically to meet the home worker requirements of corporate customers, it is equally useful in similar environments that work in the same way, e.g. small branch offices of companies that operate in a centralised data processing environment, such as construction site offices. It offers the combination of network connectivity and service management capabilities that you need to protect the productivity of your home/remote workers. It also provides a range of broadband VPN access options and a choice of equipment – from basic
modems to advanced wireless routers. And you can… …manage all of this online, via a secure central website giving you full control over the whole network, including: provisioning, reporting,
diagnostics, fault reporting and much more.

Siemens HiPath BizIP – Voiceover IP for small companies with big expectations!

The Siemens HiPath BizIP offers professional Internet Telephony from as little as £570*. The innovative Voice-over-IP system is specially adapted to the needs of smaller companies. Its peer-to-peer technology makes it particularly easy to use and expand and allows you to start enjoying the benefits of future-proof IP communication based on the SIP standard straight away. Benefits of the HiPath BizIP: 

• Low-cost telephony via your Internet connection
• Smooth, fail-safe transition from the existing telephone network via Voice-over-IP while retaining existing call numbers.
• Convenient & attractive telephones with voicemail
• Ability to easily expand system to as many as 16 subscribers
• No need for an expensive switchboard thanks to intelligent terminal services (Peer-to-peer)
• Ability to connect faxes, DECT phones and door opener devices
• Data & voice communication – one cable to the desk
• High-quality router with firewall for the DSL connection included
• Quick & simple installation, configuration & expansion.

*£570 refers to the price of the main operating system. Additional costs for handsets may be required.

BT Featureline from Abtec

If it’s call-handling features you’re looking for, try Featureline. You get the functionality of an office phone system, using high-tech equipment at a BT exchange. Featureline is an intelligent analogue line that has 19 network features built in. Ideally for SME, especially businesses with 2-5 lines and gives all the facilities normally associated with a switchboard, but without the need for capital outlay. As a company expands, Featureline can grow, with up to 60 Featurelines on an installation.

Benefits:

• Cost effective – It is a service you rent. You do not tie up capital in a phone system
• Technology – BT keeps the technology up to date. You can forget about obsolescence and budgeting for replacement
• Portable – There’s no system box or special cabling. You can probably use your existing phones, though special Featureline phones are available
• Reliable – The service – maintained by BT – is extremely reliable. There’s no hassle with maintenance contracts or insurance
• Call Management -Good call-management makes a good impression on your customers
• Expandable – You can expand Featureline whenever you need, up to 60 lines per site

Read more about BT Featureline with Abtec

BT IP Clear

IP Clear links multiple sites together to create an IP-based, secure virtual private network. Those networks can then be used as the platform for company-wide intranets, extranets or inter-site business connectivity.

Can be used as convergence solution for running voice and data over one network, which reduces infrastructure and management costs.

Core network owned, maintained and managed end-to-end by BT with resilience measures designed in, so ensuring security and reliability.

Easy migration from other virtual private networks to IP VPN, so cost-effective way to introducing IP or add new sites.

Wide choice of access speeds to 1Gbps, allowing service to be quickly scaled up or down to meet specific requirements.

Delivers any-to-any connectivity between sites, reducing expense associated with reconfiguring and managing connections between multiple networks.

Sites throughout the UK and beyond can be brought together into a wide area network (WAN) to share information and applications with IP Clear, even if their networks use different protocols.

This secure, reliable Internet protocol (IP) virtual private network lets you configure your network to meet exact corporate requirements.

It runs over BT’s multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network, providing a cost-effective, highly scalable route to direct information exchange between connected locations.

What’s more, if there is a fault on the network, information will always reach your required destination as traffic simply takes a different path.

Cost-effective

IP Clear delivers a VPN solution that offers:

• Unbundled, ‘wires-only’, so you can use existing equipment or equipment from preferred suppliers
• Cost-effective way to build meshed network as there are no usage-based permanent virtual circuit (PVC) charges
• Capability to adjust bandwidth quickly to suit users and applications as needed
  Scalability for adding new sites quickly, merging with other organisations or bandwidth increases
• Business continuity options including synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) delivery and dual-diversely routed access circuits

IP Clear with CoS

IP Clear’s differentiated classes of service (CoS) provide a platform that enables you to converge voice and data traffic on to one network. Converging traffic can then cut infrastructure and management costs
 
View more IP Clear solutions from Abtec Network Systems

Small and Medium Business Network Solutions from Abtec Network Systems

Small to Medium Businesses face an ever competitive and changing business environment. Abtec can provide a communication solution to help your business grow. Abtec’s wealth of experience and technical expertise means we can tailor a solution to your needs and ensure it is future proof and scalable so it can be expanded as your business grows.

Visit Abtec’s website to see typical devices on a small to medium business network

BT’s 21CN Network

BT is rolling out its next generation network. This radical and groundbreaking programme, called the 21st Century Network, will consolidate BT’s complex network and systems infrastructure. But it is not simply a network transformation; it’s an overhaul of products, systems, process and a fundamental remaking of BT’s business.

Visit the 21CN website

What is 21CN?

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Wide Area Networking Solutions from Abtec

A wide area network (wan) is a group of devices located remotely and connected via electronic links. This network can bridge between towns, cities or continents. The network connects Local Area Networks together which contain the end-user PCs, printers etc. These sites are cabled to a router which then sends information accross the WAN.

A WAN allows a company to share information accross geographically distributed sites in order to maximise data processing and business efficiency.

The aim of a WAN is to help your business improve:

• employee productivity / communications
• reduction/control of costs
• information management
• standardization of hardware/software usage

View wide area network solutions from Abtec