COVER STORY
Core Areas of Operation
• Voice
• Messaging
• Data SIMs
• Colocation
• Fibre & Wireless Connectivity
wholesale SMS to channel
partners and businesses with
over a million SMS sent a day
over our network, and we are at
the forefront of the movement
towards RCS messaging.
Alongside our rich APIs
we’ve recently developed a
new portal for our messaging
customers, allowing them to
manage usage and billing, view
tra c, analyse activity and
more.”
Colocation services based
upon aql’s three Leeds based
Tier-3 equivalent data centres
represent a signi cant growth
area for the company and Andy
Wainwright comments that
customers, such as Coventry
University, are delighted with the
service and responsiveness they’ve
received and are really pleased
“Our partner’s success is our success; we want to be that
perfect partner for the channel market.” Andy Wainwright
with the peace of
mind they’ve got
that their servers are
being stored in secure
conditions.
“Connectivity
is also a growing channel
market for aql and we provide
super-fast bre and line of
sight connectivity as well
as data SIM solutions. Our
data SIM solutions use L2TP
(Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol)
to provide customers with
extra control of their data,
supporting the growing
requirement of strong security
in the IoT arena. We o er a
choice of either single-net or
multi-net data SIM cards, the
latter of which will connect
to any UK mobile phone
network to get the best signal.
ese too can be provided on
a wholesale basis to enable
backup, remote, or temporary
connectivity, or to enable pure
M2M and IoT device to device
communications deployments.”
Next Steps
Adam’s founding vision
of building technology to
automate business processes
was borne from a passion for,
and commitment to, improving
society and business through
technology. e appointment
of Andy Wainwright in 2018 as
Managing Director has allowed
Adam to spend more time on
research and development for
aql’s future technology, whilst
Andy focusses on using aql’s
existing portfolio of products
Adam Beaumont, Founder and CEO
to drive expansion in the
channel market.
Says Andy, “My focus
for aql lies in increasing the
product and market knowledge
of our customer facing teams
so we can provide expert
advice and support; increasing
responsiveness; providing sales
collateral and support – all
themed around the ethos that
our partner’s success is our
success. In short, we want to
be that perfect partner for the
channel market.”
aql are expanding and now is the perfect time
for channel partners to benefit from their
leading offerings.
For more information visit aql.com/channel or
call the team on 0113 320 3040.
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