Exhibitor List

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of DCC Plc, one of Ireland's largest companies, and a world class sales, marketing, distribution and business support services group.

We service our UK-wide customer base from state of the art facilities in Altham (Lancs) and Basingstoke (Hants).

Our approach is focused on contributing to the growth and profitability of both our resellers and vendors through industry leading knowledge and expertise in specific product and market development and rewarding our staff on their ability to serve our customers.

We offer solutions across IT, Communications and Mobile and we are proud to support world-class partners such as Acer, NEC, Plantronics, Samsung, Blackberry, Sony, Toshiba, Orange, O2, Vodafone, Western Digital and Netgear. To find out more about our product range, our people and our partners, visit us at Convergence Summit North.

Oak’s product range includes call logging/reporting, call recording, CTI enabled application and database integration, and call centre type wallboard displays. These applications save businesses money, increase their productivity, improve their customer service and help them make money.

Oak products are developed in house and are available from professional accredited channel partners across the UK. Oak works closely with all leading telecoms manufacturers.

Oak, an ISO9001:2001 quality accredited UK company, has been serving the channel since 1985 and today employs over 50 staff across the UK.

Our publications include Comms Business Magazine, the leading monthly publication sent to an audited readership of over 12,000 channel professionals and Mobile Business Magazine, the award-winning magazine for the mobile trade channel. We also publish three annual glossy stand-along channel guides; the Channel Guide to VoIP, the Channel Guide to Green ICT and the Channel Guide to Unified Communications.

Our websites www.commsbusiness.co.uk and www.mbmagazine.co.uk are the leading online portals with up to date news, features, jobs and much more.

To provide the Channel with an interactive educational and networking platform, we organise the leading Convergence Summit events plus we hold the annual Comms Business Awards to recognise excellence in the Channel.

In the year ended 31 March 2009, BT Wholesale generated £4.6 billion in revenue. Today it employs over 3,000 people and provides next generation network services and solutions including broadband, integrated data and connectivity, conveyance and bulk transit, contact centre solutions, converged voice, wireless data and mobility, hosted applications, managed network solutions and white label managed services.

We are here to help communications providers expand their portfolio and take them into the next generation world, to meet the challenges of new markets and new opportunities, sharpen their competitive edge, reduce their cost base and attract and inspire new customers.

Critical Links’ flagship product, the edgeBOX™, is an award-winning multi-function gateway appliance that includes VoIP/IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a WiFi access point as well as a fax server, web server, e-mail server, print server and data storage.

It is available on a range of hardware platforms that support up to 300 users, with different form factors and a host of broadband interfaces such as BRI/PRI(T1/E1), FX0/FXS, Ethernet, etc. Critical Links typically serves SMBs through a global network of VARs, System Integrators, OEMs and Service Providers.

Since our launch, our clients have utilised ME applications to: process over £200 million of payments from their customers, automatically route 250 million calls and to conduct over 2 million customer surveys. The ME suite offers off the shelf solutions for: Desktop Office productivity with: Connect ME and Conference ME; Self Service applications: Pay ME, Tell ME Send ME and Alert ME; Diary Management: Remind ME, Schedule ME and powerful Contact Centre services: ID ME, Q4 ME, Ask ME.

Datasharp is dedicated to providing businesses with market leading, cost effective solutions. Our products and services include: Voice and Data Solutions, Unified Communications, Hosted IP Telephony/Voice over IP and Call & Line Rental Savings.

Datasharp is committed to quality, service and professionalism. We consistently receive numerous world leading manufacturers and industry awards, the most recent of which include; Comms Business Reseller of the Year (Large) and Comms Business Overall Reseller of the Year.

Visit stand 11 and you’ll discover how Entanet has pioneered the implementation of 21CN, being the first non-BT company to adopt Wholesale Broadband Connect and IPStream Connect across the UK to deliver more competitive broadband products; you’ll see how its UK-wide infrastructure brings you closer to customers to deliver competitive Ethernet services; see Entanet’s hosted, multi-user VoIP service; and realise just how easy it is to order, provision and support services using Entanet's online portal.

Working in collaboration with each of the airtime service providers since 1996, Fone Logistics offers its resellers the full range of voice, data and converged communications solutions to allow them to engage with end-customers across their communications estate, securing greater loyalty and customer ownership.

Partnering with O2 at the Convergence Summit North, Fone Logistics is seeking to engage with fixed line and comms resellers, promoting O2’s newly launched ‘Joined Up Communications’ category. As part of its participation in the Summit, Fone Logistics will be showcasing the O2 Landline propositions and promoting to resellers the benefits of engaging with O2 and adding business mobile to their portfolio.

Please contact us on 0845456 1116 to arrange a meeting or come and see us on stand 24.

Gamma’s innovative voice services are designed specifically for SME end-users and supplied through Channel Partners for fast, efficient and profitable resale.

Solutions include traditional CPS services using Gamma’s predominantly soft-switch based network; easy to use Inbound services that provide instant call plan control as well as contact centre services; IP Telephony services that include Hosted solutions as well as the market leading SIP Trunk solution which has been successfully tested with all major IP PBX’s; and Gamma Mobile for voice and broadband mobility services.

For two years in a row, Gamma’s growth has been recognised in the “Sunday Times, Microsoft Tech Track 100”

HSC is an award winning mobile distributor. With a product portfolio that encompasses airtime, hardware and software we can offer the complete mobile solution. Resellers can be confident that by choosing HSC they will receive the very best support with our market leading knowledge, service & relationships. All HSC resellers get entry into The Mobile Club which offers a host of unique benefits to help you maximise your sales opportunities. From our bespoke training modules, technical support and online realtime stock ordering to the hub of our online account functionality with www.yourhsc.com you can rest assured that if you want to make a success of selling mobile HSC are the people to be talking to. From our inception as a launch partner for Orange back in 1994 to our acquisition by The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2005 HSC has shown its pedigree over the years and is proud to hold the title of Mobile News Best Distributor Networks.

Interquartz products are the phones of choice in the Corporate, Financial, Health, Government, Educational, Industrial, Hotel & Hospitality and SME/SoHo market sectors.

Interquartz also OEM products for major PBX manufactures.

Interquartz products are renowned for quality, reliability and durability and consequently enjoy a loyal customer base.

Our markets include Europe, Middle East and Central Asia.

What makes us different?

In house R&D, Moulding and Tool Making facilities, 13 Gate Quality Check, Comprehensive 10 year guarantee on all analogue phones plus the Quality of the plastic, Gold plated contacts for high quality voice, Message waiting indicator compatible with the majority of phone systems, high quality components, Inductive couple for hearing aid users, Double injection keys - numbers will never fade, Non slip silicon rubber feet, Large printable area

Our services include:

* Internet and Telephony Infrastructure design, implementation, management and support.

* IP VPN.

* Wholesale dialup and broadband services.

* Wholesale SIP Interconnect and Hosted VoIP solutions.

* White Label Virtual ISP.

* IP Transit.

* Leased Line and Bespoke connectivity solutions

* Voicestream

* MPLS VPN solutions

* Colocation services

* Managed email

* Dynamic quality control

All our solutions are underpinned by the murphx XPS platform, a proprietary connectivity provisioning and management system that helps you to capitalise quickly and easily on connectivity opportunities and makes your operations processes more efficient.

Its parent, the NEC Corporation of Japan, is one of the world’s largest and most influential electronics groups, and claims a leading position in many international markets. For its part, NEC Infrontia, launched in 1995, expanding rapidly in serving a growing European market. Its success is measured by its ability to satisfy an increasingly sophisticated and demanding customer base.

It benefits from a group investment of £2bn p.a. in R&D, which makes its parent the world’s top five most prolific patent producer and it now has over 50,000 installed business telephone systems in the UK alone. These carry either its own branding or that of other internationally respected suppliers for whom it manufactures.

NEC is one of the world’s largest telecommunication suppliers ranked 2nd in the worldwide enterprise market (Source: Gartner Dataquest - December 2005).

Customer benefits include: • Ordering up to 6.30pm for guaranteed next day delivery • Huge stock levels spanning thousands of products • Friendly knowledgeable staff • Pre and post sales technical support • Dedicated Trade Counter

Club Communications, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of billing, provisioning & Direct Debit collection services to the Reseller Channel; became part of the Nine Telecom Group to combine with Nine Telecom Wholesale. The result is a powerful combination of products, such as WLR3, Business Mobile, Inbound Call Solutions, Broadband & Connectivity along with business support and high level account management. Shipton Communications, the World’s oldest independent telecommunications company, brings to the Nine Telecom Group a sought after support programme of engineering, maintenance & installation works. Offered to Dealers & Resellers on a unique 'pay as you use' basis the new company, Nine Shipton Ltd, means the Group can offer the total telecom solution.

Nine Telecom Group, your business partner

OAISYS does not sell direct and provides resellers with unrivalled comprehensive pre- and post-sales support, including project management tools, dedicated installation assistance and end-user training services. OAISYS has successfully established its position as a foremost provider of call recording and contact centre software solutions within North America, and has expanded its presence globally with the opening of the OAISYS Limited UK office in the city of Cambridge.

Last year alone saw the launch of Assured Rates and Annex M on our ADSL2+ broadband, L2TP Carrier Ethernet and wires only or fully managed IPVPN. This year is no different with the first of many launches - Intelligent Call Control (ICC) - our new sophisticated inbound platform which is set to shake-up the channel.

Whether you are looking for a pure wholesale relationship taking core network connectivity from us, a reseller relationship taking managed services at wholesale prices, or are a dealer interested in end-user solutions with upfront and ongoing commission packages, we offer a partner relationship to suit your needs.

Whether its Monitoring Employees, Managing the Jobs they do or making sure they are SAFE Romex has the solution on Blackberry,Win Mobile and Symbian.

We offer a broad range of applications which enable our customers to instantly REDUCE unnecessary cost and automate time consuming processes such as Timesheets, Mileage Claims, and work Allocation and Mangement.

More importantly ROMEX offers its customers live visibility of ISSUES before they become PROBLEMS. Whether your remote workforce Deliver, Repair,Sell, or consult we have a subscription based solution for all companies utilizing existing hardware with simple easy to use applications. .....This is convergence at its best.

• Presence and availability status for key contacts • Conference Management • Microsoft OutlookTM Plug-in • Seamless call forwarding and one number services • Consolidated directories and contact favourites

All in all, a unique communication solution that you can sell easily to your customers, and as it a single Unified Communications Appliance, it is easy to service too! To find out more visit Siemens Enterprise Communications on Stand 41 at the Convergence Summit. To book your appointment why not send an email to david.dyer@siemens.com or call 0115 9434382.

Through carefully selected partners Tollring delivers unique software and technology-enabled services to help organisations manage, understand and control their fixed and mobile communications resources. Tollring's comprehensive suite of applications includes Call Management, Call Recording and Enterprise Resource Management.

Tollring's services and solutions optimise every aspect of your communications eco-system. From building and maintaining a single inventory of your entire telecoms environment, to understanding and controlling the runaway costs of mobile technologies. Tollring's expertise and management tools will transform the utilisation of your communications infrastructure and deliver astounding results.

Union Streets flagship product 'aBillity' has been supplied to over 250 clients. In recent years, Union Street significantly increased investment in product development and support, to focus on WLR3.

Union Street has now fully integrated WLR3 provisioning into the aBillity product and were arguably the first to go ‘live’ with WLR3 for ISDN30 and ISDN2.

Union Street will be showcasing two major new products:

>>> WebaBillity Pro - A enhanced online billing portal

>>> WLR3 ProAssure - A WLR3 portal suitable for non-aBIllity customers

More than anything else, VanillaIP will enable Resellers real differentiation at point of sale, a predictable and reliable revenue stream and the ability to drive Average Revenue Per User [ARPU].

Introducing Switchvox from Digium, The First Web-Aware Phone System for Business. If you are a Reseller looking for a phone system to sell to your client base, look no further than Switchvox from Digium, the global leaders in open source IP Telephony. Switchvox will change the way you view you phone system forever. Switchvox delivers Web 2.0 Telephony.

Quintum's range of VoIP Gateways scale from dual port analog devices all the way up to carrier class, multi-E1 solutions. Their pedigree within the Microsoft OCS Unified Communcations space is second to none and from a cost perspective, we believe they are leaders in their class.

Alongside these exciting new products VCOMM will be exhibiting Polycom's range of SIP Handsets and conference phones including the new IP450, IP6000 & IP7000 respectivel

The products also support TR069 protocol for auto provisioning, ensuring fast and efficient service deployment, upgrades and maintenance.

In addition all handsets offer multiple SIP User accounts each with an individual line key, large pixel backlit LCD screen with XML support; Power via PoE, dual Ethernet ports; programmable keys, clear and precise XML screen, SMS, voicemail, remote/local phonebook, distinctive ring tone, dial plan, dial now, intercom and call park.

Yealink VoIP phones are Session Internet Protocol (SIP) compliant and are specifically designed to maximise productivity and efficiency in the business environment.

Through our Channel Programmes, we offer an attractive proposition to Partners with business customers in need of network-based solutions. We provide business class connectivity including ADSL2+ broadband, Ethernet, and IP VPN, complemented by server virtualisation and data centre hosting solutions, VoIP/SIP trunking, managed firewalls, and offsite data backup.

We do things differently. If your portfolio could benefit from our converged solutions that deliver voice, video and data over a single connection, visit Zen at Convergence Summit, and get refreshed! Discover Zen on stand 39 or email us: convergence.summit@zeninternet.co.uk