Good cabling leads the way to success
01 August 2002
What role does a good cable network have to play in an office? Mike Atkinson, managing director of Telematics Networking and Communications, the UAE's leading networking company, puts it in simple terms: "The infrastructure should provide an effective, reliable and manageable, organisation-wide platform for application services."
Telematics, he says, is dedicated to providing best-of-class, end-to-end cable networking solutions for anyone seeking to use cable networks to deliver and receive information, communication, and entertainment through data, voice, and video.
''Enabling a variety of applications, Telematics cable networking solutions offer scalability, security, flexibility, and manageability unmatched in the region, backed up by programs and proven service and support,'' Atkinson says.
"Telematics has experience of large multi-site design and implementations and small single office systems. The key to successful infrastructure developments is broad skills and practical integration experience,'' he states.
The term 'cabling' can mean different things with varying levels of sophistication. Atkinson breaks it down into explanations that non-cable-techies can easily understand. "The more important concept to understand is not how cables work, but how they can work to make your business more efficient," he explains.
Local area networks
"The mission-critical nature of today's applications makes network performance crucial for business success," he says. "At the same time, a local-area network (LAN) must be able to adapt to change. The broad range of Telematics LAN solutions provide performance, scalability, manageability, and integration for more bandwidth and ports. Telematics provides a comprehensive set of LAN solutions and their implementation to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as enterprise-class campus networks."
Wireless
"Wireless communications allows us to live and work in ways never before possible, offering us flexibility, mobility and a link to our environment that is almost magical," says Atkinson. "Anybody that uses cordless or cellular phones, pagers, TV remote controls, keyless car entry, or garage door openers will readily agree.''
''Telematics' wireless solutions can span multiple broadband frequency bands and are compatible with core networking equipment. Telematics' mobile wireless products and services along with its partnerships provide mobile operators scalable access and core technology solutions.''
"You will be surprised at how easy Telematics' wireless LAN solutions are to use and deploy, and how cost-effective they are," he says.
Virtual private networks
Virtual private networks (VPN) are networks deployed on a public network infrastructure that employ the same security, management, and quality of service policies applied in a private network. "The benefits of using VPNs include cost savings and extending connectivity to telecommuters, mobile users and remote offices as well as to new constituencies, such as customers, suppliers and partners," says Atkinson.
Voice
Telematics, says Atkinson, enables innovative telephony services by breaking apart the traditional telephony infrastructure. "IP telephony technology allows for data, voice, and video to be transmitted over a single, IP based network infrastructure. Open packet telephony technology offers carrier-class voice quality and separates call control from the switching functionality. The separation of these functions enables an ecosystem of partners to develop new and innovative services and solutions on top of a Telematics packet-switched network," he says.
Security
Telematics' vision, says Atkinson, is to empower users to safely take advantage of the Internet economy. "Telematics' security offerings allow organisations to securely deploy mission-critical applications and networks to gain competitive advantage," he says. "The confidence that comes from knowing that company information assets are secure is the key that can unlock explosive new Internet business opportunities and dynamic growth."
IP solutions
"Telematics' IP telephony solutions accelerate the intelligent delivery of high-capacity, high-value services. IP telephony allows data, voice, and video to be transmitted over a single network infrastructure. Enterprise technologies such as IP telephony are enabled by Telematics and provide converged applications such as unified communications and contact centre solutions.
Atkinson says that by allowing Telematics to implement IP telephony solutions, customers benefit from:
"With the most experience in the region designing and implementing mid to large-sized solutions we have the knowledge, the processes and the leading technologies to offer you an end-to-end solution from design to implementation," he says. "Give us a call and we will be happy to show you examples of our most recent projects and provide a variety of options that fit your budget requirements."
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