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Quality Installer Recognition
ADR Communications ltd have been recently awarded, quality installer status by Telappliant Ip telephone company. Telappliant are the UK 's and European's No1 provider of low-cost IP Telephony solutions for business. They can rapidly deploy a wide range of advanced and cost-effective VoIP solutions and services, ranging from office IP PBXs to bespoke Calling Card Platforms and IP call termination services. Telappliants solutions utilise Voice over IP (VoIP) technology to deliver technologically advanced solutions. Telappliants IP PBX gives a new lease of life to your teleworking environment, by seamlessly integrating home-based employees with your office. By utilising IP telephones, cost-free communications is now possible via your high-speed Broadband (ADSL) connection. ADR Communications Ltd have also made a partner agreement to allow free access to Telappliant's home user VOIP platform"voiptalk.co.uk" via ADR Communication's own wireless broadband network (Ineedbroadband.co.uk) this offering not only gives ineedbroadband a excellent VOIP (broadband telephone service) but gives Telappliant a platform for the new emerging markets in WIFI telephone handsets and PDA smart phones with built in wifi access. Adrian Robinson Managing Director of ADR says "these are exiting times and it's nice to be working with, what be leave to be the most established and professional VOIP offering in the UK and Europe" With projects in the UK and Spain already underway, 1000's of happy business and residential customers are saving money on calls every minute, and we are looking forwards to a bright future together.
Ainscough Gets a Big Brother
National based Ainscough Crain hire, have just commissioned ADR Communications to install the ADR_GV digital CCTV system in the three of the there 87 depots across the UK. The ADR_GV system was selected due the the flexibility and easy interrogation in to a windows based network. The ADR_GV surveillance system can be expanded from 2 cameras to 90+. Ainscough have a select range of cameras from covert to Pan tilt and zoom, all cameras in the main compound areas are equipped with hi-resolution color, day and night cameras with inferred night vision.
The ADR_GV system offers full remoter viewing , play back and recording of footage anywhere in the world. Ainscough's management team can now keep a eye on there office and compounds from within side the building , on the LAN or from home via a secure connection across the internet, and like wise, head office can monitor the day to day running of there regional depots at the click of a mouse.
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YMCA update:
ADR Communications have just completed a second phase to last Octobers CCTV install at the Nottingham YMCA, (i spy with my digital eye story below). ADR Communications have installed no less than 60 cameras at the Nottingham YMCA across four ADR_GV systems. All the system can be monitored, reviewed and backed up on or off site at anytime by any approved user. This is a true big brother system. If you would like to see this site in action for yourself's then please contact us to arrange a visit.
Wireless Broadband Onboard.
After ADR Communications installed one of there ineedbroadband.co.uk wireless broadband transmitters in the Holiday Inn castle marina (story below) they started to attract a great deal of interest from the near by Castle marina.
ADR Communications being not one to miss a trick , approached the marina owners and asked if they could install a wireless transmitter on the grounds of the marina, this would give a greater signal in the marina, thus meaning that users on some of 90 narrow boats that are resident in the marina could use there wireless laptops and wifi devices with out the need of any external antennas.
Ineedbroadband are providing high speed broadband in to the marina from £11:99 with speeds up to 1.5Mb with 4Mb to come. Some of the user are now using ADR Communications VOIP (voice over ip) www.iphonica.co.uk telephone service via a small wireless adaptor and and analogue telephone adaptor, to make Free local calls to other users and discounted national and international calls.
White Meadows Upholstery Go Wireless
In March ADR Communications were asked to provide a solution for one of the UK's largest Upholstery manufactures.
White Meadows Upholstery are based at Huthwait in North Nottingham and are manufactures of high quality fabric and leather 3 piece suites, with customers like DFS, and more.
Scope: White Meadows faced a loss of ADSL service from a local wireless dsl service provider that was due the cease trading. This left white meadows with no internet access at there main office site and one of there remote offices on the same industrial estate, White Meadows also ran VPN connections between there mains sites and two other sites located 2 and four miles away. Oh what a head ache for the IT management team.
ADR Communications, where brought in to solve this problem. After meeting with the White Meadows IT team, ADR Communications would come up with a system that would solve the loss of ADSL and make the old VPN connections a thing of the past. ADR Communications set to work running propagation plots to find out which wireless solution would benefit them most. After a few days ADR Communications, came up with a system that would not only offer speeds up to 54Mb Asynchronous with speeds dropping to 32Mb with Synchronous transactions, this system would link all three sites over four miles, forming a wide area network for White Meadows.
How did we solve the ADSL problem? White Meadows had a remote site located on the other side of the town, which was to be incorporated in to the new wireless WAN, this site would simply become the new gateway for all internet traffic. Not only have White Meadows saved in them self's thousands in ADSL cost's, but they have gained a whole wireless WAN that will give fast file transfer between offices that would have normally taken much more time over the old 256k VPN.
This solution was carried out with a Alvarion 5.8Ghz wireless point-to-multipoint system, this system can be tailored to distances of 18Km and can handle up to 20 subscriber units or Offices from one base station. If you would like to know how this solution can help you, then please e-mail us or call 0871 2882106.
Wireless access for Holiday Inn guests
ADR Communications has recently been commissioned by the Quinn Group, to totally re-cable the Holiday Inn Castle Marina Nottingham. The scope was to re-cable every floor in the hotel, in preparation for a major phone system transfer during the 5.1/2 a million pound refit. Using CAT5 technology and a bank of voice patch's will give the hotel a greater flexibility when moving telephone lines, computers and tills within the building, using a system like this also has cash saving benefits "no engineer required to move lines".
The refit has also incorporated ADR Communications very own Wireless Broadband Service "ineedbroadband.co.uk", this service is widely available over the county of Nottinghamshire and is now providing high speed internet access for guest and conference room users in the Holiday Inn hotel.
Guests in the hotel, can gain access to the Ineedbroadband network by purchasing an eight hour ticketed service within the hotel. Using standard 802.11b wifi connecting to the internet could not be easier. The Hotel is also home to a second ineedbroadband transmitter, that is located on the roof of the building, this transmitter gives wireless broadband service to nearby builds such a McDonalds, Pizza hut and Costa Coffee. The transmitter also has an excellent coverage up to 3.5miles over the nearby Castle marina area. This means that ineedbroadband can for the first time, provide a wireless broadband and VOIP service to users on nearby house boats in the marina. For more information on our VOIP service click here.
Franklin
Ellis Associate save thousands
with wireless communications
FWA
Solutions are pleased to announce that through their networks expert, ADR
Communications, a wireless communications system has been successfully
installed for Franklin Ellis Associate Architects. The high-speed wireless
link connects two offices, located half a mile apart, to carry private
data traffic and voice, securely between locations in the city of
Nottingham.
ADR
Communications recommended the FWA 5.8GHz outdoor system. The product offered Franklin Ellis Associates an extremely
cost effective solution to extend a single network between two sites with
a secure and dedicated 20Mbps+ pipe.
This allows live information, such as large drawings and other
files, to be quickly exchanged between co-workers as well as provide a
solution for cost free Voice over IP telephone calls. Franklin Ellis
Associates have not only saved the costs of an extra server, but also the
savings of sharing a single, less expensive third party broadband
connection. This saves the
company thousands of pounds in ongoing communication and hardware costs.
ADR
Communications’ Technical Director, Adrian Robinson says “
FWA
Solutions’ Managing Director, David Penny, explained “We recommended
the Osbridge system as they have proven to be one of the few truly low
cost, reliable systems on the market that are built for outdoor
distribution”. The products
are fully UK compliant and offer communication experts high performance
that provides true value for money for the end user.
London's Metroline Goes Wireless.
ADR Communications have recently completed the wireless ennoblement of London's North West Metroline Bus depots.
Metroline was formed in 1989 as a subsidiary of the publicly owned London Buses Limited, and has over 1000 buses with 3000+ staff. The scope of the job was to provide wireless connectivity for the North West staff training bus, which travels from site to site giving valuable staff training to Metroline employees. The wireless connection should also be able to give large scale coverage in all areas of the depots to help future proof Metroline's IT future. ADR Communications worked closely alongside Metroline's IT management to provide a cost effective solution to the problem. The training bus can now pull up in to any of the north west depots and connect to the Metroline LAN and the internet via a secure and seamless wireless connection. If you would like more information on solutions like this then please call 0871 2882 106.
I Spy with my digital eye
Keeping a close you on things is not always an easy task. With ADR Communications new high spec digital CCTV system you can view your CCTV cameras on any computer on your local area network or even via the Internet.
The ADR Communications digital CCTV system is much more than just a DVR (digital video recorder) please see IP-cctv link above for full details and demos. The Nottingham YMCA have just had a deployment of 23 cameras spread across two ADR Geo systems, with user access for all management and security staff. The system was tailored to the YMCA's specific needs. Staff in the building have access accounts allocated to them, based on the area that they work in and their management level, this gives each area there own bespoke CCTV system on any PC with in the LAN, with all the features and more of a conventional analog video system. All cameras can be monitored by the night staff from any location in the building via a Local pc or a wireless connection to a laptop or PDA. The system can also be monitored via the internet and VPN connections. Each ADR Geo system boosts 1TB of storage that can give 24 hour real time storage at 25fps per camera over 60 days.
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Unattended Object Detection and Missing Object.
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Detection, Object Tracking and Zooming by PTZ Dome
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SMS Alerts (video to your phone)
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EPOS events (prints till receipts over the cameras image)
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Car registration recognition
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640 X 480 recording and display resolution (320 like other DVR's))
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Mpeg 4 / Wavelet compression technology
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Motion detection, around the clock, and pre-schedule recording mode
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Alarm to E-mail or SMS(Jpeg,Mpeg or text message)
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Embedded I/O devices control
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Embedded PTZ control panel
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Built-in web server
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Digital watermark authentication
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Hardware watchdog features
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Multi level passwords protection
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Full screen display
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Supports dynamic IP address
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Video lost detection
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Support dual screen display
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VOIP Is the word!
In July ADR Communications where asked to commission a unique data and voice solution for a major Nottingham Building contracts company. The scope was to provide a seamless connection between the main office and there new office located a quarter of a mile away. Andrew the IT manager had specified to the main IT contractor that they did not want to get in to high cost leased lines for this solution. The main IT contractor then called upon ADR Communications to find a solid work around. The Solution was to use wireless technology to provide the main data backhaul and to run a four line VOIP solution to link there two existing PABX telephone systems together. This solution gave the added benefit that no leased lines where require on a yearly retail basis, the two phones systems can share extensions, outgoing lines and both office have access to the file servers and internet (only one DSL circuit needed). Our clients has been so pleased with solution that they have asked ADR Communications to commission another link to there remote stores building, the stores has never had and connection to the clients data network nor a telephone that existed on the customers PABX, this solution should save hours of man time and external telephone cost.
Keeping Erewash Council Safe
ADR Communications have recently secured a five year contract to carry out all portable appliance testing for Erewash Borough Council. EBC are based just on the boarder of Nottingham and Derby with over 50 sites to be tested. The contract is to run over a five year period. Negotiations where started back in April of 2004, with our associate company Ailsen Ltd, who carry out electrical, gas and air conditioning, installation, service and maintenance contracts for many large UK companies including the NHS.
YMCA Cut Broadband Cost's
Back in May 04 Adrian Robinson Technical director of ADR Communications, was asked a question by the IT Manager of the Nottingham YMCA. He asked if ADR Communications could come up with a work around to help speed up the order process time of a broadband installation from one or more of the major service providers, the service was required at a second YMCA site in Nottingham. The solution was not to help the YMCA get a standard broadband service in to the ICC centre, but to provide a complete wireless link from the YMCA's main building to the ICC centre. The solution gave the IT manager, complete control of the local and remote sites network, without the use of slow VPN's. By using this solution the YMCA saved them self's around £1700 a year on having an extra business broadband service, by sharing their existing ADSL service in the main building. ADR Communications are now in discussions to provided VOIP telephone lines from the main site's phone system to the ICC centre, again reducing cost in the long term.
Music To Your Ears
This month ADR Communications were pressed into action by the directors of one of the newest radios stations in the uk. The scope of the job was to provide a mid-peak radio link from the Highpeak radio studios to there main transmitter site located in Glossop in the heart of Derbyshire's peak district. This all had to be carried out within no less than 48 hours, as the station was due to be live on air for the first time on Sunday the 4th of April. The solution was a mix of VHF and microwave transmitter technology over a path of 12 miles, using cost effective equipment. Mr.Carnegie of Highpeak radio said, " the equipment is so small and cost effective! we could not be happier with the link! we now have service in the Glossop area for over 14,000 listeners" The station covers: Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, New Mills, Whaley Bridge and Glossop on frequency's of 103.3Mhz and 106.4Mhz.
ADR communications Break new ice!
ADR Communications have been appointed the sole contractor for electrical safety testing of portable appliances within the National Ice Center. The National Ice Center is the home of the Olympic gold medal winners Torvill and Dean. The centre also includes the 10,000 capacity concert venue - Nottingham Arena. Some of the biggest names in rock and pop have already entertained admiring audiences in the state of the art venue and many more will be performing throughout the year. Nottingham Arena is also home to the Nottingham Panthers Ice Hockey team who play all their home fixtures at the centre.
Ineedbroadband.co.uk is Born. On the 1st February 2004 Ineedbroadband.co.uk was born, ineedbroadband is a trade name of ADR Communications, providing wireless internet access to Nottinghamshire and surrounding areas. The system is built using the 802.11 wireless standard, combining mesh technology to provide the client access points, with a mix of ADSL and satellite feeds to provide the broadband internet backhaul. Adrian Robinson Technical Director of ADR communications Said "that we can provide one of the fastest internet connections in Nottinghamshire, with contention ratios as low as 8:1 on our satellite link and 20:1 on our ADSL feed with 2 to 4mb access in the near future". Ineedbroadband.co.uk hope to expand there network over the county in the next 6-8 months, bringing wireless internet access to the most far reached corners of the county. If you would like to know more then visit www.ineedbroadband.co.uk
ADR Communications are NOW! an authorised Orange mobile phone dealership. We are now one of Nottingham's most competitive pay as you go dealers. We also supply our current and growing customer base, with the latest deals in pay monthly contracts. Bookmark our new online orange shop.
CNC Profile cutting goes wireless.
ADR Communications recently provided a cost-effective wireless solution for Nottingham's based CNTL Engineer. The scope was to save time in transferring information from the design software in the planning room to a CNC profiling machine in a work shop located 800mtrs a way on the other side of an industrial estate, also to provide LAN access and internet connectivity. ADR Communications set to work designing a stable and secure wireless link, incorporating full wep encryption, traffic routing, firewall solution and with VPN pass-though. This hole project was undertaken in one day and cost less then £600.
CNTL are also considering reselling there broadband service to neighboring business. If you would like information about secure and reliable wireless linking, VPN or broadband solution access for your business then please contact us.
10,000 Item PAT Testing Contract Secured.
ADR Communications have recently secured a ongoing contract with EAW Services, to test 10,000 I.T and portable appliances at the UK head Offices of the Wallmart Group, ASDA House.
ADR Communications have been commissioned to undertake this vast testing contract by EAW Services of Nottingham.
EAW Services are specialists in offering large corporate companies a one stop solution in portable appliance testing, EAW's client base include's Fujitsu, Wallmart , M.O.D, Sommerfield, plus more....