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Nexans and Psiber Data have teamed up to deliver an
international road show to examine the latest developments in high bandwidth copper and fibre cabling. Seminars will take place during the summer in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands and the UK. Topics for discussion will include
next generation cabling, copper or fibre choices, standardisation issues and how Category 8 compares with Category 7A. Plans for sessions - which will take
place during June in the UK - to also include hands on opportunities to try out new products from Nexans & Psiber. For details visit
www.nexans.com/
roadshow
position of for Director of Business Development, Cannon Electronic Packaging - based out of the UK. Glenn will be responsible for moving
the business forward across Cannon’s growing UK and Ireland operation - as well as working with colleagues across the company’s global estate, which encompasses operations around the world, including subsidiaries in five countries on three continents. With an in-depth knowledge
of engineering, as well as a sound background in the electronic packaging market, successfully studying for a BEng (Hons) qualification in the 1990s and just recently, a BA (Hons) in Business Studies, Glenn’s initial focus will be working with partner companies to push their - and Cannon’s - business forward, as well as ensuring that clients receive the best possible pre- and post-sales support. The first Cannon partner in this
regard will be Germany’s Polyrack Tech-Group, which is renowned across Europe and beyond for its Polyrack and Rapp branded offerings. According to Matt Goulding, Cannon
Technologies’ Managing Director, Glenn’s initial role will be to promote Polyrack’s subracks, cases, system desktop and rack mount solutions, building on the partner’s established track record across Germany, Russia, Switzerland and North America. Polyrack’s products, he said, are used
extensively within the communications, broadcast, security and defence,
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Cannon Technologies has appointed Glenn Conlon to the
transportation, utilities and medical sectors, as well as in a wide range of test and measurement environments.
centre. already in use at global financial institutions, the firm’s technology allows organisations to easily and securely authenticate callers to reduce handle time, improve customer experience and reduce fraud. The company says that its Seamless
Passive Enrolment process leverages a customer’s previous call recordings to create a voiceprint to automatically confirm the caller’s identity. “Most voice-based projects have
failed because they put a burden on the customer to set up their voice-enabled profiles in advance – an additional time-consuming task,” explained Yochai Rozenblat, the firm’s president. “With Seamless Passive Enrolment,
if a customer has called before, they can be automatically authenticated using their voice the very next time they call,” he said. According to analyst firm Contact
Babel, most call centres currently take up to 60 seconds to verify the identity of a customer. NICE says its technology automatically authenticates the caller in less than 15 seconds.
has added Volta to its LightNow high-capacity, ultra-resilient optical networking service. Located in close proximity to the
City of London, Volta caters to the requirements of latency-sensitive users in the financial services industry, TechCity-based technology firms and the media industry. One of the most resilient facilities
in central London, Volta’s power and connectivity infrastructures feature a 33kV diverse power supply and the availability of a range of Tier 1 carriers with their own diverse fibre connectivity to the building. Matthew Dent, Volta’s CEO, said
that high bandwidth, low latency Ethernet connectivity between data centres is a critical requirement for today’s IT managers. “Our presence on the LightNow network ensures that Volta customers
Volta Data Centres has announced that SSE Telecoms
NICE has announced real-time voice authentication for the call
enjoy best in class optical wavelength connectivity to other facilities, while SSE Telecoms’ customers now have access to central London’s’ most resilient and well-connected facility, he explained.
Centre. This is in response to increasing customer demand for its hosting services. The first stage of the data centre
opened 18 months ago, with the first phase now full. This latest expansion forms part of the ISP’s £4 million investment in its data centre. Located just outside Manchester
city centre and easily accessed from the M62, Zen says that the centre is monitored 24/7 by automated management systems combined with an onsite central monitoring team, security guards and CCTV. The centre is said to be both energy
efficient - achieving Participant status in the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre energy efficiency - and environmentally friendly, with standby power systems consuming less energy than traditional static battery based systems.
aimed at large data centre applications. The security vendor claims that the 41000 system supports up to 80 million concurrent connections and 1.1 million connections per second for demanding, high-volume transaction environments. The 41000 security system also
delivers optimal security performance with up to 40 Gbps of real-life firewall throughput, and 25 Gbps of real-life IPS throughput. According to Dorit Dor, the Company’s Vice President of products, large data centres and telecommunications infrastructures need performance, up-time and scalability without compromise. Additionally, she said, these environments often have rigid requirements for high reliability. “Data centre and telecommunications
environments demand optimal performance with the most advanced security protections. The 41000 builds upon the technology found in the industry’s fastest Security System, the Check Point 61000, and delivers the
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Check Point has introduced a new high-end security appliance
Zen Internet has completed the latest phase of its North West Data
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