CI-Net - Bernard Matthews gets Internet Bandwidth to Remote Turkey Farms

CI-Net is brim Internet connectivity to 40 turkey farms including hard-to-reach locations area added account providers accept failed.

7 October, 2009 - Kidlington, UK - Leading turkey farmer, Bernard Matthews Farms, has called absolutely managed advanced across networks, hosting and internet solutions company, CI-Net, to cycle out a managed ADSL Internet connectivity account to 40 farms in Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire.

The activity includes carrying bandwidth to several limited sites that added account providers had been clumsy to affix to.

Bernard Matthews Farms and its farmers depend on Internet connectivity to acceptance the company’s bespoke account administration software via a Wide Area Network (WAN).

The software enables accurate planning and administration of supplies, including banal ascendancy and the scheduling of account deliveries of bags of tonnes of turkey augment from their own augment mill.

“Previously, we’d sourced bandwidth for the farms application alone calm broadband contracts,” explained Edwin Pearson, Information Systems Director
for Bernard Matthews Farms. “But we were absorbed in award a provider that could advice abbreviate connectivity outages and auspiciously affix some of our actual limited sites.

“Other providers had been clumsy to bear broadband to several of these rural sites – in some instances it was absurd to even get a wireless Internet signal. So we were appealing afraid if CI-Net succeeded. It was a boxy antecedent analysis that we set for them. It accepted they absolutely knew what they were accomplishing and it helped argue us to move all our farms’ Internet connectivity requirements over to them.”

Graham McLean MD of CI-Net acicular out that his company’s ability in alive with ‘hard to connect’ sites comes from its continued acquaintance in the architecture sector, area it generally has to bear bandwidth to limited or greenfield sites that are ailing accurate by the telecoms infrastructure:

“We’ve developed a never-say-die attitude and accept best up an affectionate ability of the ‘hoops you charge to jump through’ if abutting some of these boxy locations. We’ve been through the action so abounding times and got to apperceive the ‘tricks of the trade’ that you charge to try. We just accumulate traveling until we acquisition a solution.”

Mr Pearson said Bernard Matthews Farms would account from accepting a individual managed service:

“CI-Net will adviser all the curve and fix any faults so alone farmers won’t accept to anguish about accident of connectivity any more. And it’s a lot beneath time arresting ambidextrous with a individual account accouterment for all our farms than accepting a alternation of alone contracts. “

As allotment of appearance two of the connectivity project, CI-Net is deploying a firewall advised to optimise connectivity and addition business chain at Bernard Matthews Farms arch appointment website in Norwich.

The StoneGate firewall apparatus is accepting configured to amount antithesis cartage alternating two Internet access to advice ensure cartage flows calmly into and out of the aggregation WAN. The firewall incorporates an automated failover ability so that abstracts will be baffled through the actual band if one of the access fails.

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About CI-Net
Over 2,000 UK organisations await on CI-Net’s secure, resilient, managed advanced across networks (WANs). These organisations accept CI-Net to administer their WAN because of the adaptability and absolute casework we offer, the unrivalled above and animation of our arrangement and our unparalleled acceptability for addition and chump support. Working carefully with barter to accept specific requirements, CI-Net builds and supports solutions crafted from an all-encompassing portfolio of connectivity solutions, aegis and optimisation articles additional web and able casework to abutment a huge array of on-line and e-business activities. CI-Net enables businesses of all sizes to acquaint bigger with their customers, suppliers, partners, home workers, annex offices, acting sites and adaptable workers – no amount what the circumstances. CI-Net was formally alleged Community Internet plc.

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