Griffin wins The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 Award

EXPRESS TELEPHONY LAUNCH ONLINE DATA BACKUP SOLUTION

For many years Internet Service Providers (ISP's) have offered the ability for SMEs to back-up their data over broadband to a central storage facility but only recently has this really taken off. So what’s changed? Andrew Dickinson, Sales and Marketing Director at Griffin Internet one of our Broadband wholesale partners, investigates Online Backup and the potential benefits to resellers and their customers.

Express Telephony in conjunction with Griffin Information Systems will supply their ExpressBackup product to anyone needing a reliable backup solution. This will provide a fully resilent off site supported backup solution that conforms to all disaster recovery regulations and for a little over £7.00 per month for up to 25gb of data it's great value and offers peace of mind in event your systems crash and you need your data in a hurry!

SYMMETRIC ASSURED BROADBAND  - Service Description – Engineered Broadband Symmetric Assured (EB SA): EXPRESSBroadband EB SA is a managed broadband service with a symmetric Assured (EB SA) upload and download speed targeted at the Hosted SIP trunk voice service market as it comes with a basic service level agreement providing some much needed gurantee of service and designed to replace SDSL services.

ADSL2+ Annex M Product Launch - We now have access to an LLU ADSL2+ Annex M service.  Giving up to 2.5Mb upstream bandwidth and 16Mb downstream bandwidth, this is a true next generation business-class ADSL service.

OFCOM ANNOUNCES NEW NUMBER RANGE PROPOSALS - Ofcom 0870 proposals Ofcom has laid down its proposals for the 0870 number range and other numbering schemes, following completion of its consultation last year with the Communications Industry.

Dialling (020) 3 for London - As London 020 7 and 020 8 numbers become increasingly hard to find Ofcom has launched a new range of London telephone numbers, starting with (020) 3. These are being used alongside the existing (020) 7 and (020) 8 numbers to increase capacity.

Internet Service Providers (ISP's) are required to provide customers with an accurate estimate of the maximum speed their broadband service can support at either the point of sale to the customer, in the shop, over the phone or on their Internet website under a new voluntary Code of Practice published recently by Ofcom the Telecommunications Regulator. Other steps required by the code which aims to ensure greater clarity in broadband markets include:-