To enhance it's commitment and provide our customers with excellent pre and post sales service and support, LAN3 Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Coles in a newly-created position as Senior Network Consultant. Steve's previous roles were at Avaya and 3Com as a Senior Proffesional Services Consultant, a position he held for 10 years.

Steve Thompson, Sales Director at LAN3 comments:

"Steve is a fantastic addition to the team here at LAN3 and his industry experience, expert knowledge and professionalism bolsters and helps prove our comitment to our customers. Steve will immediatlely engage with our customers to deliver best in class service and support in areas such as pre sales design, project management, assessment services, professional services and after sales support".

Steve Coles added:

" I am delighted to be able to join such a dynamic, future thinking company such as LAN3. In a reltively short space of time they have gained many high profile and demanding accounts and have quickly built themselves into a force to be reckoned with in the UK Networking reseller space. My aim is to enhance their reputaion even further by allowing LAN3 more flexibility and innovation around pre and post sales support to its customers".

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LAN3 are pleased to announce they have become a commited partner to Airtight Networks.

Steve Thompson - Sales Director of LAN3 commented:

"With the wire-like performance of 802.11n wireless networks the trend is for customers to look to utilise wireless more for mission critical applications.  As such there is more of a need for wireless networks to be as secure as their wired infrastructure.  AirTight is the best technology on the market for ensuring the integrity of a wireless network."

For more information on Airtight Networks please view the 'Partners' section or contact sales@lan3.co.uk.

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HiveAP120

HiveManager Online

For pricing or more information, please contact sales@lan3.co.uk.

LAN3 are pleased to announce they have become a commited partner to A10 Networks.

Steve Thompson - Sales Director of LAN3 commented:

"When a technology comes along, that compliments our product range, and is 5-20 times faster and yet half the price of its main competitors, we sit up and take notice.  We are delighted to have signed up with A10 Networks and are very excited about our future business together."

A10 Networks provides LAN3 the opportunity to offer our clients Web Application Delivery and Server Load Balancing products to help accelerate, optimize and secure their applications.

For more information on A10 Networks please view the 'partners' section or contact sales@lan3.co.uk

LAN3 have moved offices within Oxfordshire, providing increased office space and a more modern office enviroment for our staff.

Martin Jones - Director of LAN3 commented:

" As a result of rapid growth in the past year we are moving offices to accommodate our growing staff and business needs. Our new offices have allowed us to create a vastly improved working enviroment for our staff, and provide us with the opportunity for continued growth and expansion in the future".

LAN3's new address details can be found in the contact section.

3Com Intelligent Management Centre (IMC)

3Com's IMC Enterprise Edition is a self contained comprehensive management solution, flexible and scalable enough to meet the needs of advanced Enterprise networks.

IMC Enterprise edition includes all the key functionality and modules needed to manage, monitor and control networks, including:

• Adminsitration control
• NAC
• Resource Management
• Performance and event management
• Reporting
• VLAN Management
• Configuration Management
• ACL Management
• Network Traffic Analysis

LAN3 can offer interested clients a FOC Webinar direct with 3Com on the IMC product. Please contact us on 01869 233240 or sales@lan3.co.uk for more information.

The Directors of LAN3 are pleased to announce their 'Partner Alliance' status with Insight. This will allow us to supply products and solutions, to our Public Sector Clients, through the OGC Catalist procurement program.

Steve Thompson - Sales Director of LAN3 commented:

"By partnering with Insight, our Public Sector Clients can expect a smooth procurement route through the OGC program and still receive the highest level of support on pricing and service from LAN3. Our aim is to make the clients procurment process easier, but still cost effective. We believe, that by partnering with Insight (one of the leading OGC value added resellers in the UK), it helps us achieve this".

Link to the Partner Alliance webpage:

http://uk.insight.com/content/specials/partner-alliance-info

LAN3 can now offer our Clients a complete networking solution through our new Data Cabling team.

We pride ourselves on the level of service we provide to our clients. Our highly skilled network cable installers have many years of experience in all vertical markets.

Together, these skills enable us to offer a complete voice, data and network cabling service. Our range of services include Cat 5E structured cabling, Fibre Optic & Cat 6 cabling.

Please see 'services' for more details or contact cabling@lan3.co.uk to arrange a free site survey.

In-Stat Finds 3Com LAN Switches as much as 60% More Energy-Efficient Than Competitors'

3Com worldwide
Driven by its unique Open Services Networking (OSN), 3Com continues to be the clear No 2 vendor worldwide in total Ethernet switching port shipments, enterprise router units, and small and medium business (SMB) switching, in the latest market share reports.

Worldwide, 3Com is:

• No 2 in total Ethernet switching port shipments for the fourth consecutive quarter (Dell’Oro Group, Q4 2007);
• No 2 in enterprise router shipments for the third consecutive quarter (Infonetics, Q4 2007); and
• No 2 in switching port shipments and revenue for SMBs, and growing faster than the overall market (Infonetics, Q4 2007).