RivaNET gain Cisco CCNA Accreditation
As part of RivaNET’s “total solution” commitment, we are now even better placed to deploy and manage Cisco network infrastructures by having an additional two senior engineers qualified to Cisco’s CCNA standard.
“We want to ensure that we have the best staff with the industry with the right qualifications to work in partnership with our customers.” Daniel Davis, Operations Director.
RivaNET™ have gained the Exterity Volume Reseller accreditation, which is a major commitment in ensuring that our engineers are highly trained to support IPTV installations within both the education and corporate sectors.
Exterity™ IPTV solutions are becoming more widely known in the technical community for the delivery of high quality HDMI compressed video streams through structured cabling, and is an ideal solution to control and monitor content to presentation TV displays and user devices across a campus-wide network.
RivaNET have recently implemented a LifeSize™ video conferencing solution into a leading London-based law firm, helping the team reduce their travel costs and eliminate unnecessary journeys to their satellite offices and customer locations.
This has also helped to drive up their productivity, which is essentially in these recession hit time.
Video Conferencing is no longer a bastion of large corporates and is now a highly cost effective technology now available to small and medium sized businesses
Days Hotel Hounslow – Complete Systems Implementation
In the Summer of 2008, RivaNET completed a major hospitality project near Heathrow – the 37th Day’s Inn Hotel in the UK; comprising 96 bedrooms, 3 conference suites, restaurant, bar, cinema and conference room presentation facilities.
RivaNET’s project scope included installing the structured data cabling, comms rack, workstation and server equipment, Windows™ 2003 Server, Microsoft Exchange™, Nortel BCM400™ Telephone system, secure Aruba™ wireless connectivity, Exterity™ IPTV, SmoothWall™ Corporate Firewall 2008, Lutron™ lighting control, integrated bar & reception touch-screen terminals, PDQ payment machines, high-definition cinema, presentation facilities and multi-room audio.
By employing this ‘total solutions approach’, this project highlights the breadth of competencies the RivaNET team have; especially within the hospitality arena.
RivaNET Gain Promethean Certification
RivaNET gain Promethean Installer Certification, enabling our installation teams to deliver the entire Promethean product set into schools, colleges and corporate environments throughout the UK.
Thames Water Production Servers
A suite of NEW high performance HP ProLiant DL580 Servers with load-balancing capability have been deployed into Thames Water to test and simulate their new BPM (Business Process Management) systems.
This high availability solution uses the latest Quad-Core processing alongside an HP MSA 2000 SAN solution to deliver a reliable and scalable storage solution up to 96TB.
LiveLink™ File Home-Access Solution Launched
RivaNET have developed LiveLink™, a remote access solution primarily for the education market, enabling staff and students to access their home drives and shared resources via the Internet.
New Customer Support System Goes Live
Customers are now able to log and track support requests over the Internet; complementing our existing telephone, email and remote dial-in uplink service.
To access this resource, please visit http://support.rivanet.co.uk
RivaNET Relocation into New Offices
RivaNET have relocated into newly purpose-built offices to cater for the continued growth of the business.
The new facilities include meeting rooms, a dedicated support department, a server build / test area, together with a hot-desking environment to allow our field engineers to work more efficiently.
RM CC3 System Migration London-based Independent School
RivaNET have successfully managed the migration of a London-based Independent School with over 350 PCs from an RM Community Connect 3 (CC3) system to a 'vanilla' Microsoft network.
Backed up by the RivaNET support service, the school ICT department are now able to dedicate their time to delivering curriculum based activities instead of fire-fighting recurring issues.
The deployment of a new Exchange 2007 Server email / anti-spam system with an integrated Active Directory web-content filtering firewall also protects the staff and students from unsuitable web and email content.
SmoothWall Gold Partner Accreditation
RivaNET achieve GOLD partner status for SmoothWall; a professional firewall, Internet content filtering and web-cache system.
Now protecting millions of networks worldwide, this secure solution is ideally suited for school, college and office environments, enabling user groups to have varying levels of restrictive Internet access as required.
Please visit www.smoothwall.co.uk for more information.
RivaNET are now one of only a handful of approved partners able to supply, implement and support Aruba wireless networks into organisations.
This enterprise solution has won dozens of international awards for its performance and reliability, and has recently been deployed into Heathrow Terminal 5 and the entire Microsoft worldwide campus network.
Please visit www.arubanetworks.com for more information.
Crystal report development is now offered on a consultancy basis by the RivaNET team, to deliver custom reporting functionality for any SQL-driven application, including Access Dimensions Accounting and Facility CMIS Administration.
Configuration of Facility ePortal to be accessible from outside the school network can now be configured to allow staff, students and parents to access school information from home.
This is a major milestone whereby parents can continuously monitor their children`s progress and attendance.
Record Summer: ICT Refurbishments
Between July and September 2006, hundreds of new workstations, together with dozens of servers were implemented at countless schools across the UK.
This included both new and existing customers, ensuring that the latest technology is made available within the school environment.
RivaNET migrates the Northampton High School server infrastructure to Windows 2003 Server, implements a new firewall and delivers a high-speed internet connection.
The server upgrade includes the provision of two new servers together with upgrading the central switch to support Gigabit Ethernet; delivering a 10-fold speed increase.
A SmoothWall firewall now delivers filtered broadband access and monitoring for all the users. In addition the multi-channel ADSL connection provides a high-capacity cost-effective internet connection, at a fraction of the price of a leased megastream line.
Dell has been selected as RivaNET's preferred workstation supplier due to their recent launch of AMD-processor based systems; which offer more cost-effective solutions for this competitive market.
Authorised Microsoft Education Reseller
RivaNET gains Microsoft Reseller accreditation, allowing competitive pricing and centralised management for licensing.
Upgrade of Server and email facilities for Moor House School
By using the latest Windows 2003 server technology Moor House School now has a fully updated network setup to support the reliable operation of the 100+ school workstations.
This complements the Smoothwall installation by RivaNET in April 2006, which caters for high-speed 'filtered' internet access for the students.
RivaNET Celebrates it’s 5th Birthday!
RivaNET has now been trading for 5 years, providing lasting relationships with our customers through products and services that offer value for money.
Throughout this time we have worked with our customers to ensure their investment in technology has been worthwhile and cost-effective, and we continue to maintain these close relationships.
Reconfiguration of Server and Network for The Renaissance Club
A complete systems overhaul was carried out for The Renaissance Club. This involved the secure backup of customer data, rebuild of the workstations with Windows XP Professional, and the introduction of a new domain-based network.
Sophos anti-virus with PureMessage (anti-spam) was also deployed on this occasion since much of their poor network performance was caused by virus attacks.
New Website for Chadworth Interior Designs
A stylish new leading-edge website has been developed by RivaNET which includes a re-branding of the client’s corporate image.
This new corporate image has now been utilised on the customers marketing brochures ready for launch in Summer 2006.
Firewall protection system provided for Stanley Betting International
RivaNET provide a SmoothWall Firewall solution to protect the IT services of this £350M organisation, together with offering an out-of-hours business support package.
Secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) and filtering modules were also included during implementation. More information on these solutions can be found here.
Office Relocation and Network Expansion for International Institute of Communications
The relocation of telecommunications and network facilities to IIC’s new offices were fully managed by RivaNET. This was achieved during a carefully managed out-of-hours operation to eliminate any business down-time.
An overhaul of the existing IT infrastructure was carried out as part of the relocation programme, incorporating a full anti-virus and system integrity check.
RivaNET become Nortel Solutions Provider
By embracing Nortel technology, larger telephone systems can now be deployed by our specialist engineers (10-200 handsets).
This product complements our InterTel i:BOX partnership, allowing RivaNET to provide scalable products for our small and medium sized customers.
New Support Alliance established with Serco Learning
In January 2006 a new support alliance was established with Serco Learning for the deployment and support of their Facility CMIS application.
This is now a leading technology for student database management within schools and colleges, providing comprehensive reporting and secure storage of student records.
Novell to Microsoft Network Migration for Dame Allan’s School
The existing Novell network was replicated onto a Windows 2003 Server environment with Active Directory to allow migration onto a modern infrastructure.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 are soon to be deployed onto this new infrastructure to synchronise with Active Directory.
VoIP Phone and presentation system for Martin Reinhardt Estate Agents
RivaNET install and commission a new state of the art VoIP (Voice over IP) telephone system to monitor and log all calls, thereby improving customer service.
A new quad-screen multi-display system has also been implemented into the shop window, enabling the dynamic display of new sales and letting properties.
Website and Corporate Branding Redeveloped for Martin Reinhardt Estate Agents
The company website and corporate profile was also redeveloped to meet their high standards of corporate presentation, and this has been reflected with improved monthly sales figures.
New Timesheet and Expense System Alliance
RivaNET form an alliance with ExpenseOnDemand to offer a leading web-based timesheet and expense systems, designed to streamline and automate business processes.
By introducing tighter monitoring of project hours and expense claims, the return on investment can be as little as 6 months.
Upgrade of Bury’s Court School IT System
Complete re-wiring and system installation at Bury’s Court School, bringing their ICT facilities up to the latest technology standard.
Staff and pupils now have access to modern computing equipment with high-speed ‘filtered’ broadband connectivity. Interactive whiteboard technology was also installed.
System Upgrade for Martin & Co – Worthing
System upgrade completed for Martin & Co Worthing, including the procurement of a new business and email server system to significantly improve their ability to communicate with their customers.
Details about Martin & Co can be found on their website here at
http://www.martinco.com
Micklefield School Website launched
Micklefield School worked together with the RivaNET software team to develop a brand new school website.
Agreements established with Promethean and Smart Technologies
Interactive whiteboards were installed at a number of schools to improve the ICT facilities
within the classrooms. This new alliance with Promethean and Smart enables RivaNET to offer a
complete package, including electrical & IT installation, together with staff training for these
products.
Access Dimensions support goes live.
RivaNET now offer full support and installation services for Access accounts.
RivaNET co-host a stand at the BETT 2005 Exhibition with SmoothWall Limited
New Support Service Introduced
On 1st December 2004, RivaNET introduced a new telephone system to streamline the company's support and sales operation. For support, simply dial 08700 111 787.
Revised Support Packages
After speaking to a number of our customers and listening to their feedback about ongoing support, we have now revised our remote and on-site support packages to fit better into organisations' working week and stabilise their expenditure.
Please visit the support section for more information.
