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Switchshop have been listed in the Real Business magazine Hot 100 list for 2009. The list is based on figures from companies with a turnover of over £5 million showing best growth over previous years. While we appreciate making the list and feel proud of our achievement we will not lose sight of the core reasons for our continued success, our exceptional staff and of course our exceptional customers.

Switchshop run on the old ethos "The Customer is King" and never is this more relevant than during a recession. We try and make doing business as quick and painless as possible. Normally quotes are returned within an hour and equipment is supplied within 24 hours from receipt of the order.

For more information please follow the following link .

Mark Thomas

As the demand for marketplace mobility accelerates, Meru Networks continues to forge partnerships in key technology and service domains to deliver the ultimate wireless experience. By teaming with leading technology and channel partners, Meru empowers enterprise organizations and the mobile workforce with connectivity anytime and anywhere.

The opportunity for partners to help deliver the benefits of next generation wireless is wide open - and now is the time to take advantage of it with Meru Networks.

Please conact Switchshop Sales for further information.

Mark Thomas

Switchshop have been awarded Silver Partner Status with Sonicwall.

SonicWALL is a recognised global leader in the small and medium business markets and its solutions are deployed in distributed enterprise environments, government, retail point-of-sale and healthcare segments as well as through service providers.

SonicWALL has been hailed by industry publications such as InfoWorld, PC Magazine, Network World, and SC Magazine for easy to use, high quality, and high performance appliances and services. Its appliances have a worldwide installed base of more than 650,000 units, protecting millions of users. A leader in the rapidly growing Unified Threat Management category, SonicWALL's UTM solution features high- performance,solid-state firewalls and VPN appliances with value-added security subscriptions such as anti-virus, intrusion prevention and anti-spyware, for wired and wireless networks of all sizes. Its award-winning SonicWALL Global Management System, which allows network administrators to centrally manage and provision thousands of security appliances across a widely distributed network, further enhances the value businesses realize from a SonicWALL solution.

Mark Thomas

NHS (National Health Service) Walsall is the primary care trust responsible for the health needs of the inhabitants of this English town.NHS (National Health Service) Walsall is the primary care trust responsible for the health needs of the inhabitants of this English town.

It has a growing IT infrastructure that currently covers some 92 different sites - including an acute hospital, health clinics, medical centres and doctors' surgeries - and has more than 5,000 users.

The sites themselves varied from single doctor surgeries to the Trust Headquarters with more than 100 users. With each site running a mixture of networking equipment from different vendors, the previous infrastructure was complicated and costly to maintain.

The Trust also wanted to upgrade its phone system to give users all the benefits of a unified communications platform. Powerful, failsafe messaging ensures medical staff receive critical information, while advanced features such as voicemail, presence and hunt/call groups enable better collaboration between staff and provide easier communication with patients.

In addition, the Trust needed a secure, resilient wireless system so that staff on the move could access the information they needed. For medical staff, in particular, this enabled them to develop new services which deliver a better patient experience, such as mobile imaging which uses the wireless network to access X-rays and test results direct from the ward.

To simplify the management of their expanding infrastructure and reduce maintenance costs, NHS Walsall decided to consolidate on one manufacturer's platform. From their experience of the cost-effectiveness and reliability of their existing 3Com® equipment, together with the recommendation of their networking solution provider Switchshop, the choice of 3Com® was clear.

The programme to update their systems started with NHS Walsall HQ and is being gradually rolled out across the Trust's remote sites. The networking infrastructure is powered by a combination of switches, including the 3Com Switch 7700, 3Com Switch 5500G and 3Com Switch 5500EI, to provide a faster, more resilient infrastructure.

Advanced voice services are powered in selected edge sites by either the 3Com® NBX or 3Com® VCX® Enterprise Server.

Currently, wireless working is largely concentrated on the acute hospital and the Trust's HQ using the 3Com Managed Wireless Solution. Centralised management is enabled by the 3Com Wireless LAN Controller WX2200s with 3Com Wireless LAN Managed Access Point 2750s and 3750s providing wireless access for the Trust's staff. Mobile working is now much easier with secure access to information, including patient records, on the move.

Together these solutions deliver a highly resilient, cost-effective network. The flexibility and performance of the 3Com solution will enable NHS Walsall to meet its ambition to establish a single communication system across all its sites and build wired and wireless networks to support voice, video conferencing and other key applications. These include sophisticated new patient administration systems, mobile diagnosis and imaging, a health portal encouraging greater collaboration between medical staff, and online reservation systems for patients to book appointments.NHS (National Health Service) Walsall is the primary care trust responsible for the health needs of the inhabitants of this English town.

It has a growing IT infrastructure that currently covers some 92 different sites - including an acute hospital, health clinics, medical centres and doctors' surgeries - and has more than 5,000 users.

The sites themselves varied from single doctor surgeries to the Trust Headquarters with more than 100 users. With each site running a mixture of networking equipment from different vendors, the previous infrastructure was complicated and costly to maintain.

The Trust also wanted to upgrade its phone system to give users all the benefits of a unified communications platform. Powerful, failsafe messaging ensures medical staff receive critical information, while advanced features such as voicemail, presence and hunt/call groups enable better collaboration between staff and provide easier communication with patients.

In addition, the Trust needed a secure, resilient wireless system so that staff on the move could access the information they needed. For medical staff, in particular, this enabled them to develop new services which deliver a better patient experience, such as mobile imaging which uses the wireless network to access X-rays and test results direct from the ward.

To simplify the management of their expanding infrastructure and reduce maintenance costs, NHS Walsall decided to consolidate on one manufacturer's platform. From their experience of the cost-effectiveness and reliability of their existing 3Com® equipment, together with the recommendation of their networking solution provider Switchshop, the choice of 3Com was clear.

The programme to update their systems started with NHS Walsall HQ and is being gradually rolled out across the Trust's remote sites. The networking infrastructure is powered by a combination of switches, including the 3Com Switch 7700, 3Com Switch 5500G and 3Com Switch 5500EI, to provide a faster, more resilient infrastructure.

Advanced voice services are powered in selected edge sites by either the 3Com® NBX or 3Com® VCX® Enterprise Server.

Currently, wireless working is largely concentrated on the acute hospital and the Trust's HQ using the 3Com Managed Wireless Solution. Centralised management is enabled by the 3Com Wireless LAN Controller WX2200s with 3Com Wireless LAN Managed Access Point 2750s and 3750s providing wireless access for the Trust's staff. Mobile working is now much easier with secure access to information, including patient records, on the move.

Together these solutions deliver a highly resilient, cost-effective network. The flexibility and performance of the 3Com solution will enable NHS Walsall to meet its ambition to establish a single communication system across all its sites and build wired and wireless networks to support voice, video conferencing and other key applications. These include sophisticated new patient administration systems, mobile diagnosis and imaging, a health portal encouraging greater collaboration between medical staff, and online reservation systems for patients to book appointments.

For more information please contact our sales department who will forward you the full PDF version.For more information please contact our sales department who will forward you the full PDF version.It has a growing IT infrastructure that currently covers some 92 different sites - including an acute hospital, health clinics, medical centres and doctors' surgeries – and has more than 5,000 users.

The sites themselves varied from single doctor surgeries to the Trust Headquarters with more than 100 users. With each site running a mixture of networking equipment from different vendors, the previous infrastructure was complicated and costly to maintain.

The Trust also wanted to upgrade its phone system to give users all the benefits of a unified communications platform. Powerful, failsafe messaging ensures medical staff receive critical information, while advanced features such as voicemail, presence and hunt/call groups enable better collaboration between staff and provide easier communication with patients.

In addition, the Trust needed a secure, resilient wireless system so that staff on the move could access the information they needed. For medical staff, in particular, this enabled them to develop new services which deliver a better patient experience, such as mobile imaging which uses the wireless network to access X-rays and test results direct from the ward.

To simplify the management of their expanding infrastructure and reduce maintenance costs, NHS Walsall decided to consolidate on one manufacturer's platform. From their experience of the cost-effectiveness and reliability of their existing 3Com® equipment, together with the recommendation of their networking solution provider Switchshop, the choice of 3Com was clear.

The programme to update their systems started with NHS Walsall HQ and is being gradually rolled out across the Trust's remote sites. The networking infrastructure is powered by a combination of switches, including the 3Com Switch 7700, 3Com Switch 5500G and 3Com Switch 5500EI, to provide a faster, more resilient infrastructure.

Advanced voice services are powered in selected edge sites by either the 3Com® NBX or 3Com® VCX® Enterprise Server.

Currently, wireless working is largely concentrated on the acute hospital and the Trust's HQ using the 3Com Managed Wireless Solution. Centralised management is enabled by the 3Com Wireless LAN Controller WX2200s with 3Com Wireless LAN Managed Access Point 2750s and 3750s providing wireless access for the Trust's staff. Mobile working is now much easier with secure access to information, including patient records, on the move.

Together these solutions deliver a highly resilient, cost-effective network. The flexibility and performance of the 3Com solution will enable NHS Walsall to meet its ambition to establish a single communication system across all its sites and build wired and wireless networks to support voice, video conferencing and other key applications. These include sophisticated new patient administration systems, mobile diagnosis and imaging, a health portal encouraging greater collaboration between medical staff, and online reservation systems for patients to book appointments.

For more information please contact our sales department who will forward you the full PDF version.

Mark Thomas