Archive for January, 2010
Tomorrow’s World
So how’s your week been then?
Have you managed to get the car off the drive or did you have to use what little public transport was working to get into work or were you stuck indoors unable to work because of one or more of these things? Well if you were and could not work because of it and are now in need of a hair transplant as a result of the hair loss you have experienced pulling your hair out when looking at the weather reports, or watching daytime TV which is just as harrowing then read on!!
You probably needed to have a conversation with me about how you can use technology to help you work from anywhere in the world using a Laptop and a headset to make and receive calls on and a link to your server to enable you to get access to that all important set of spreadsheets you’ve been working on, or the report or emails etc that needed responding too. In short these days you can just about connect to anything from anywhere and do any work online you need to at anytime!
I remember incidentally in the 70′s and 80′s (yes I am that old – get over it!) being told by “Tomorrow’s World” (the TV program) that computers would give us more leisure time. Well I think they may just have got that wrong! In my view we now manage to work for longer hours and as a result of technology now spend more time online than is good for us and can speak or email or Twitter or use other Social networking to keep in instant contact with the whole planet it seems.
Nowadays if i turnover in my sleep I suspect it will appear on Twitter a few minutes later! The downside of this of course is it means customers expect you to answer the email they sent you at 2am by 2:01am! so as a direct result of Technologies unstoppable progress forwards we now do more work in less time all the time we are awake and we stay awake longer to ensure we can do more work! I don’t know about you but working to live is what I should be doing but I can’t help feeling I spend more of my time these days living to work!
So use Technology wisely, make sure you get off the net now and then and spend time with your family’s and most of all hope that now and again I fail to keep your broadband working so you can get some respite 
NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH!
EXPRESS TELEPHONY ADDS MURPHX BROADBAND RANGE murphx Innovative Solutions Ltd are a Pan European, Tier 1 connectivity wholesaler and we have added their whole product range to our platform to enable us to offer an alternative set of products and services to our customers.
This is not done to slight our Partnership with other Partners and in fact will enable us to take on business we would otherwise loose to other resellers as a result of not being able to offer a real alternative connection for use as failover etc. Currently if we use one provider for all services to customer premises even with two ADSL circuits installed as failover we risk losing both services in the event of a failure.
It is likely therefore that even with failover services installed for customers willing to pay for additional circuits that the customer will lose connection to the Internet in the event of a major outage. With two services from different sources we can now offer a truly resilient service that can ensure customers broadband stay running if they run mission critical applications in their businesses. Many customers use a £30.00 broadband service to run a Multimillion pound business and as there are no practical service level agreements in place enforceable in law it falls on the company using our Broadband Services to ensure they have a suitable failover service in place to avoid costly downtime and consequent loss of business as a result.
Our advice to customers is to take a look at your business and decide if it can cope with broadband down time. If your business will lose money as a result of the service being down then you need to evaluate if a failover solution is a viable alternative and cost effective for your business to implement and use. If your business looses a few emails and you can’t surf the net for a while then you probably don’t need a second broadband connection.
Murphyx were chosen because as an aggregator they manage many different service providers products giving us a large number of possible connections to suit most environments. This enables us to pick from the best and ensure our customers get the absolute best products and services available to do the job they ask of the broadband we supply them. Express Broadband products and services offer our customers a fantastic range to pick from now and we expect with fibre to the cabinet coming later this year to be able to increase our range still further.
For more information or advice about any of the services we offer contact or phone 0800 0522323 sales@expresstelephony.co.uk