CCOOMMMMSS N NEEWWSS - MOVERS & SHAKERS
announced an ambitious £2.5bn
infrastructure investment plan
to provide full fi bre services to
fi ve million premises, a third of
the government’s target, by
2025.
Elsa Chen, CEO of Entanet
commented: “As a channelonly
provider since our
establishment, we have always
committed to delivering the best
technology, the best service
and the best growth strategy to
our partners. CityFibre’s recent
announcement of a £2.5bn
full fi bre investment plan
created a really exciting growth
opportunity and Entanet is fully
committed to empowering its
partners right across the UK
to take full advantage of the
potential.”
VAPOUR STRIKES VOICE PARTNERSHIP WITH TELESIS
CLOUD TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST Vapour has secured a
new partnership with Bolton-headquartered telephony
brand Telesis.
The new partnership will see Telesis become a
reseller of Vapour’s Sanctm product suite. With access
to servers hosted in Vapour’s UK data centres – as well
as highly-secure backup and storage services – it is
hoped the collaboration could boost Telesis turnover
by up to 20% over the next three years. The move will
also see Vapour expand its presence in Lancashire,
particularly on the M61 corridor.
Commenting on the partnership, Telesis’ managing
director Christian Bleakley said: “The technology sector
is becoming increasingly crowded with suppliers vying
for customers’ attention, which can make it diffi cult
for organisations to know where to turn. We’ve worked
hard to build a solid reputation in the telecoms market
but when it came to client requests for wider digital
transformation support, this was a gap we couldn’t
previously plug.
Telesis will also plug into Vapour’s marketing
automation engine, which will allow the team to
communicate with and nurture new business
opportunities.
Tim Mercer, CEO of Vapour
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Wishing you a happy and
prosperous new year
BYTES... ENTANET
WHATSAPP
Avaya has announced its integration
with WhatsApp with a single API
in their CPaaS platform to reduce
complexity. Ahmed Helmy, CTO of
Avaya, announced the news to an
excited audience at their Partner
Summit and said “Would I give you a
new feature in email or would I give
you access to 1.5 billion users?”
CRYPTOJACKING
According to PandaLabs,
Cryptojacking was one of 2018’s
booming security trends, the practise
is the unauthorized use of a user’s
devices to mine cryptocurrencies,
and can get in via phishing emails,
malicious URLs, or through
vulnerabilities.
RELOCATES HQ
THE LATEST CHAPTER in an
exciting year for Entanet has
been marked by a move to new
offi ces at Partnership House
in Telford – a three-storey
business premises that can
accommodate up to 320 people.
This will now be the new
premises for the the leading
wholesale connectivity
provider, which has an
ambitious investment
programme for 2019. Entanet,
which is part of CityFibre,
employs over 140 people and
will be aiming to deliver an even
stronger value proposition
to more partners, based on
the UK’s most advanced
and intelligent full fi bre
network. CityFibre recently
MSFT Teams Direct Routing
RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS HAS
announced that, in conjunction
with its partner Sumitomo Shoji
Machinex (SMX), it has fi nalised
its fi rst MSFT Teams Direct
Routing deployment, delivering
voice integration in Teams to IT
consulting fi rm Pivot.
“Direct Routing for Teams
delivers an important new set
of capabilities to the market
and we were honored to be
selected for this deployment,”
said Ryoji Yoshida, Manager,
UC Solution team for SMX. “Of
course, selecting the right
solution to implement was key
and we knew that Ribbon’s SBC
1000 would provide the costeffective,
fl exible and futureproof
capabilities that best fi t
Pivot’s needs. Additionally, our
longstanding relationship with
Ribbon confi rmed that they would
be an excellent partner in this
process.”
“The results are up to our
expectations – our teams are now
able to connect and collaborate
more easily, enabling us to gain
effi ciencies and focus on our core
business.”
Tel Sales: 01708 320000 or Email: sales@nta.co.uk
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