01732 759725 10 DISTRIBUTOR NEWS ...continued (L-R) Elle Bennett, Abbie Lock, Simon Munday, Rebecca Pendlebury and Evie Lamb of the Mi Finance team. Altnets celebrated as one of top SMEs in the UK Brighton-based telecoms distributor Altnets has been ranked 35th in the inaugural Elite Business 100 (EB100) list of growing businesses. EB100 ranks companies across a range of criteria, from their longevity in the marketplace and year-on-year growth to how they embrace innovation and contribute to their local region. Altnets Co-Founder Sam Bangle said: “The team at Altnets is proud not only to provide exemplary service and products for its clients but now to be named as a Top 100 UK business. We’ve worked really hard to grow the business over the past year and after making some strong appointments to the team are on track for this to continue. Our aim is to be the number one choice for UK alternative network service providers looking for a supplier to support their telecoms build.” Founded in late 2020 to meet the needs of ISPs as the nation upgrades to full fibre broadband networks, Altnets provides a complete procurement service including consultancy, design, specification, product procurement, supply chain management, planning, forecasting and scheduling. https://www.altnets.co.uk/ RM Technology and Comms-care working together to transform connectivity in UK schools Infinigate nets SonicWall partner awards The Infinigate Group has received two 2023 SonicWall Partner Awards in recognition of its achievements in delivering leading-edge cybersecurity solutions. These are the EMEA Distributor of the Year award and the award for Distributor of the Year across France, Germany and Switzerland. Mathias Bachsleitner, Executive Vice President, Global Partnerships & Alliances at the Infinigate Group, said: “The Infinigate Group is proud to receive this honour. Our teams are all about creating growth opportunities for our vendors and partners through our knowledge of the market and our specialist services. We are delighted to be partnering with SonicWall to deliver the cybersecurity needed for the era of hybrid work.” www.infinigate.com AWS Premier Tier status TD SYNNEX has achieved Premier Tier Services Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). To earn AWS Premier Tier Partner status, companies must complete a rigorous approval process through accreditations and certifications; demonstrate a long-term investment in their relationship with AWS; have extensive expertise in deploying customer solutions on AWS; and have a team of AWS Trained & Certified technical consultants with deep expertise in project management and professional services. https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ Midwich launches new lease and hire purchase offering Midwich UK&I is helping customers acquire new technologies or upgrade assets without impacting working capital with the launch of a new lease and hire purchase offering led by the experienced finance team at Group company Nimans. An expansion of Midwich’s previous leasing services, Mi Finance will be available to customers of Midwich, Nimans and Sound Technology, with plans for a roll-out to the wider UK&I group of companies in the near future. Three product options are currently available including finance lease, hire purchase and operating lease, with a fourth product in development. Simon Munday, Mi Finance Manager, said: “We are really excited to bring this proposition to market. We are constantly looking at ways to increase our service offering and Mi Finance is our answer. We work as an extension to our customer’s team, taking the administration out of their hands, offering quotations, managing proposal acceptances, completing documents and arranging swift payments. The service is also available as an offering to facilitate transactions with the end client.” www.miglobalservices.com/mifinance Alex Wilmot RM Technology, a supplier of technology solutions to the education sector, has designated Comms-care (an Ingram Micro company) as its preferred installation partner for the Department for Education-funded Connect the Classroom (CTC) initiative. RM has supported schools on DfE’s CTC initiative since 2021, working on the DfE grant-funded project to co-create and deliver brand new IT infrastructure including full fibre broadband at speeds of 1 Gigabit per second – 20 times the average internet speed in the UK. With a joint mission to drive digital transformation, RM and Comms-care will support over 150 schools this year with installation and infrastructure commissioning and the rollout of wireless solutions that meet the latest Wi-Fi 6 standards and refreshed network equipment. RM Technology will provide the consultancy, design, management and training that each school will need, while Comms-care will be responsible for the implementation and activation of each installation. The timeframe to implement and deliver this kind of complex infrastructure transformation is only possible because of RM’s expertise and widespread UK customer footprint (RM currently supports more than 8,000 UK Schools in achieving their digital goals) and the engineering capabilities of Comms-care (backed by Ingram Micro). Alex Wilmot, Managing Director of Comms-care, said: “Comms-care is delighted to begin this relationship with RM Technology. The ability of the education system to realise the benefits of technologies like these affords increased efficiencies in teaching, improved accessibility and greater inclusion for students, which in turn create positive outcomes at all levels.”
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