We will be exhibiting at NAHS on the 12th November 2015 at Chelsea Football Club, Stamford Bridge.

Interested in the Future of Biometrics? come and listen to our presentation at 11.10am

Oliver Lacey and Chris Jones will be available to answer any questions you have.

Employee of the Month for June

Congratulations to MATT LAWDAY who has been recognised for his hard work and even when under pressure he still maintains the same can do attitude.

EcoVadis is an independant organisation which assesses the business practices of companies for sustainability and social responsibility, they score performance against 4 criteria:

1. Environment (Green initiatives, recycling etc)
2. Labour Practices (anti-discrimination policies, fair play etc)
3. Fair Business Practices (anti-bribery policies, ban on anti-competitive practices etc)
4. Sustainable procurement (ensuring supplier source products from sustainable sources & minimise waste etc)

Our assessment can be viewed by our suppliers to see how sustainable our business systems are. You can trust the score as it is independent & impartial.

We have just been assessed for 2015 and have been awarded their GOLD rating, which puts us in the top 5% of the companies that they survey.

When we were assessed in 2013, we were given a silver rating. Since then, we have:

1. Adopted an electric / hybrid vehicle policy to reduce emissions
2. Become a Living Wage Employer
3. Signed the UN Global Compact for universal fair business principles

These have helped us to do better this year.

Fibre Technologies Ltd (FTL) will be exhibiting at Data Centres North, we will be

showcasing a number of products to include Inferna’s Beauty box, FST Biometrics and

Facial Recogntion.

Please come along and see us at stand B26 We look forward to seeing you all.

MEF certification

INFINERA | INTERVIEW

Keeping up with Data Centre Interconnect

Stu Elby, senior vice president of cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera, discusses the growing demand for inter-data centre traffic and the efficient solutions which should respond to this challenge.

TUESDAY 03 March, 2015

“…In the early days of cloud, the same equipment was used for both Data Centre Interconnect and end-user traffic. However, with the rise of social media and machine-to-machine communication, bandwidth requirements across DCI have taken off and require a new class of equipment.

With this shift in speed and demand for terabits, operators cannot provide a solution that chews up half a rack of equipment and requires a kilowatt of power – that model simply would not fit into a data centre real estate or energy profile…

At Infinera we have attacked this challenge by applying our photonic integrated circuit technology which allows us to achieve very efficient power and space profiles – the purpose-built Cloud Xpress box…”

Follow the link below to read more:

Infinera’s Cloud Xpress will be on display at the Fibre Technologies stand, #G68A, at Data Centre World, 11th – 12th March at London Excel

MRV Communications(TM), Inc. (OTCQB: MRVC) (“MRV(R)”), a leading provider of innovative packet and optical solutions, today announced it has joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and is participating in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specification Group. MRV will bring over 25 years’ expertise in packet and optical networking to the standards bodies. Together they will focus on leveraging software and virtualization to architect innovative, next-generation networks. The company’s participation reflects its strategic roadmap towards network virtualization and software-driven services that will help carriers, data centers and content delivery providers achieve a more intelligent network, reduce OPEX and deliver high-value, revenue-generating services easier and faster.

“MRV is a trusted partner in the access and metro networks, and through long-standing customer relationships, we have gained a deep understanding of what it takes to create better, more open networks,” said Edna Ganon, director of technology, MRV Communications. “With virtualization of the metro network providing the next step for optimum network usage and dynamic behavior, collaboration within the industry is key to delivering exactly what the market needs. We look forward to working with our colleagues in the ONF and ETSI communities on bringing interoperability and standardization to the next generation of software-based networks.”

Many networks today are not optimized to support the rise in demand for cloud and mobility services, or the bandwidth-rich content that comes with them. Networks must evolve in order to keep up with exponential traffic growth and new traffic patterns. Much of this evolution will occur at the access and metro levels, where most of the transactions take place and individual services are created. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and NFV approaches will help in this process as they look to streamline network operations so advanced services are easier to manage and providers can more easily meet high service levels. The NFV initiative–lead by ETSI–is focused on using virtualization to decrease the amount of proprietary hardware needed to launch and operate services. SDN is an approach lead by ONF in which network control is decoupled from hardware and moved to a software-based controller.

“ONF is a user-driven organization, that brings consumers and suppliers of SDN technology together to address real-world networking challenges in markets that include data centers, metro networks, and wide area networks,” said Dan Pitt, executive director, Open Networking Foundation. “The collaboration between these leading global companies is critical for enabling extremely dynamic, manageable and cost-effective architectures. These standards will ensure better integration and interoperability throughout the SDN ecosystem and accelerate the delivery of SDN benefits to today’s operators and enterprises.”

About MRV Communications

MRV Communications is a global leader in converged packet and optical solutions that empower the optical edge. For more than two decades, the most demanding service providers, Fortune 1000 companies and governments worldwide have trusted MRV to provide best-in-class solutions and services for their mission-critical networks. We help our customers overcome the challenge of orchestrating the ever-increasing need for capacity while improving service delivery and lowering network costs for critical applications such as cloud connectivity, high-capacity business services, mobile backhaul and data center connectivity.

FUSION ETHERNET H1

TRANSPACKET H1; a fusion networking add-drop muxponder

TransPacket addresses the increasing demand for high capacity and high quality optical network transport services, dynamic networking and management simplicity. TransPacket?s unique and patented Fusion Networking allows wavelength-grade Quality of Service (QoS): Ultra-low latency, ultra-low latency variation and zero packet loss, enabling transparent transport of e.g. synchronization information (IEEE1588) and high-quality video. Additionally, the high capacity utilization known from packet switching is achieved using statistical multiplexing on top of the circuits. Through combining circuit switching of packets and packet switching of packets within a single wavelength and without using time-slots, fusion networks combines the best properties of circuit and packet switching in a unique way.

Addressable markets and applications

Mobile backhaul
TransPacket H1 features important functionalities for mobile-backhaul. Ultra-low latency variation enables synchronization through transparent tunneling of IEEE1588 packets. Additionally, H1 supports SyncE (G.8262). Ultra-low latency and latency variation, as well as zero packet loss enable transport of QoS-demanding services, while statistically multiplexed packet transport at the same time, enables efficient utilization of resources in the network.

Metro network
A Metro network should be able to transport and aggregate traffic from a diverse type of services like e.g. mobile services, gigabit lines from business customers, aggregated traffic from DSLAM?s, High-quality video traffic for broadcasters, etc. The unique TransPacket fusion technology enables easy transport of all these services within a single wavelength. The Add/drop functionality of H1 allows aggregation and redundancy in a ring-network structure. Furthermore, the deep buffering of H1 enables efficient statistical multiplexed aggregation.

Efficient and secure business access
TransPacket H1 enables transparent transport of traffic from business customers. Fusion networking allows isolation between business customers, increasing security, performance and availability. Furthermore, a centralized approach for controlling the services increases simplicity, reducing OPEX. The H1 meets a set of requirements within the business segment, such as low latency, transparent transport layer, ease of operation and maintenance, rack space limitations, dual redundant power feeds, low power consumption and pluggable optics. It serves the growing bandwidth and QoS demands for numerous business applications through wavelength grade QoS and transparent GE lines along with optical diagnostic and protection capabilities. The unit comes with complete performance monitoring, and can be integrated in your existing management systems using CLI, SNMP, RMON and Netconf management.

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CTC Union’s global alliance is a network of worldwide branch
offices, partners and distributors from every continent. By forming
partnerships with major telecom operators, Internet Service providers and value
added resellers; CTC Union reduces costs and improves services for customers.
This alliance covers Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, plus North and
South America. This global partnership receives direct engineering and
technical support from our company headquarters, located in Taipei, Taiwan.

As services such as voice and multimedia are moving to IP
based technologies, carriers have found that their core networks can be
operated more effectively and economically if the public switching networks are
migrated to a next generation IP based networks. Fully in line with this world
wide trends, CTC Union in 2009, became a member of the MEF (Metro Ethernet
Forum) whose main goal is to provide interoperability standards for carriers
and manufacturers to smoothly deploy Ethernet solutions from core networks to
Last-Mile. This proactive thinking will allow CTC Union to continue developing
solutions for today and tomorrow’s markets.

As a socially responsible manufacturer, CTC Union is concerned with the environment and has
taken active measures to reduce carbon emissions and eliminate hazardous
materials in their products. None of CTC Union products use chlorofluorocarbons
(CFC) in their production process and since 2007 all electronics use non-lead
soldering according to RoHS 2.0 and WEEE directives.

CTC Union’s continuing mission is to provide our customers
with “on time” solutions, quick and effective customer support, and
valuable products with extended service life.

Providing innovative last-mile access solutions in
telecommunication market and its customers with an ?on
time” solution, with quick and effective customer
support, and value.