Electron continue to offer their customers diversified services.Although staff have been trained for some months now, Electron are now actively selling hotspot services in the Transport, Retail and Leisure sectors.As well as the ‘usual’ Hotel environment, hotspots can provide corporate clients with a very good means of offering guests internet and VPN access without the risk of compromising their network.With the PurplePatch ‘back office’ billing solutions Electron can offer a variety of tailored payment methods both for wired and wireless solutions which include scratch cards, credit cards and mobile phone debits.

Having installed a variety of free space optical devices, Electron have now opted to use the Laserbit family of products for point to point data (and voice) requirements.Offering a quick return on investment, Electron are able to give their customers another option on the linking of ‘hard to cable’ buildings.Laser is also useful for providing resiliant links for those ‘mission critical’ applications such as storage and data centres.

Electron have been awarded a contract worth in excess of £500,000 to install the infrastructure in Experian’s state of the art new £30m datacentre in Nottingham.The completed installation will comprise of over 10,000 copper terminations and 27,000 fibre terminations with 25km of copper and 15km of fibre to install.Having started in November the project is due for completion in April 2004.

Electron have successfully bid for the right of becoming one of only two suppliers of cabling systems to Damovo UK.After a lengthy tendering process Electron were chosen for a three year partnering and support agreement for cabling services.Electron will give pre and post sales support to all of Damovo’s 100 strong sales force and look to grow the opportunities in the cabling arena.Chris Hickling RCDD commented “Damovo are a worldwide solutions provider with excellent pedigree,winning this type of partnership agreement demonstrates Electrons ability to work at the highest level in infrastructure design & deployment”

In partnership with Damovo and Cisco Electron have started the cabling infrastructure at Aston University.With a project value in excess of a million pounds the contract involves the cabling out of over 7,000 Category 6 Brand Rex outlets using ‘intelligent’ patch panels. An extensive OM3/OS1 fibre backbone is also being deployed to cater for future 10 Gigabit traffic.Electron have a permanent on site supervisor co-ordinating what is a predominantly night time cabling exercise.