Enterprise

Supporting the Integration of New Technologies for Enterprise

Sol Distribution can provide a number of solutions for the Enterprise sector; in fact this is the sector that the company has traditionally sold its products into before expanding into other, more specialist markets. Enterprises today face a rapidly shifting technology landscape, where bringing your own device (BYOD) is expected by employees, whilst the strongest data security is expected by the board coming to terms with more stringent data regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

IT departments need to be flexible and innovative, and picking the best component or platform and being able to do so with complete freedom and flexibility is absolutely necessary if an enterprise is to remain competitive. With this in mind, Sol Distribution works with some of the most innovative vendors in today’s IT marketplace to provide our reseller partners products and services to differentiate their offering from the competition.

LAN Infrastructure

ALE manufacturers an extensive range of fixed, chassis-based, and hardened switches, to provide flexible, enterprise-grade solutions from the access, to the distribution and core. ALE and Sol Distribution have worked on several large-scale LAN and WLAN deployments across the UK with an number of different resellers and systems integrators, and have the experience needed to help our partners win these projects and deliver them successully.

For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as medium- and large-sized enterprises, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) provides exceptional value in highly available, secure and easy-to manage IP networks with a comprehensive, standards-based product portfolio.

ALE can provide manageable layer 2/layer 3 LAN switches, both stackable and chassis-based, supporting power over Ethernet (PoE) and interface speeds from 100 Mb/s up to 40 Gb/s for office, campus and data centre networks.

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Wireless LAN Infrastructure

ALE can provide a wide variety of indoor and outdoor access points including Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) technologies support versatile deployments in any size network.

Controllerless Architecture

ALE WLAN products do not use controllers, they use a distributed intelligence model, where the tasks that would have been performed by the controller are distributed across the access points, and if one goes down, they can intelligently reroute traffic to maintain coverage. This architecture can support up to 4,000 APs in a single deployment (10,000 by the end of 2020)

Advantages of ALE WLAN Architecture:

No single point of failure
No Bottlenecks
Simple deployment
Improved security, resiliency, performance
Simplified operations, low TCO

ALE Stellar WiFi 6 Brochure

Rainbow

Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow™ is a cloud-based, enterprise-grade, Communication Platform (CPaaS) that connects people and systems. It creates an integrated and innovative cloud-based collaborative workspace for business users and their contacts.

The service offers contact management, presence, persistent messaging, audio/video calls, screen and file sharing. Rainbow is available for desktops and smart-phones, and is free to try.

Visit www.openrainbow.com website and try out Rainbow for free!

Alcatel Lucent Enterprise Rainbow Benefits:

User efficiency – Contacts, chat, call/video, file/screen share, mobility, borderless communication
IT consistency – Infrastructure-agnostic, common address-book, integration with existing PBX (ALE and non-ALE PBXs)
Process optimisation – Openness & APIs to integrate with business processes and in-house apps
Customer productivity – Integration of customers in end-to-end enterprise processes (BtoBtoC)

Location-Based Services (LBS) and Asset Tracking

The OmniAccess Stellar LBS suite offers three game-changing location features to empower your company, broaden your services, gain insightful analytics and help you make better decisions.

OmniAccess Stellar LBS provides more than just navigation inside airports, hospitals, hotels, and university campuses. It’s the foundation of multiple innovative services such as:

Proximity marketing for restaurant and retail promotions

Automated information messages and emergency notifications

Smart parking

Location sharing

Finding points of interest with turn-by-turn directions

Staff mobilisation and coordination

Additionally, OmniAccess Stellar LBS offers in-depth location analytics to better understand people flow, dwell time, area utilization and concentration. Combining these exclusive features can help organizations improve processes, optimize customer engagement, and fine tune service delivery.

ALE Location-Based Services Brochure

Asset Tracking

Asset tracking identifies the location of equipment or people, in real-time, using tags with GPS, BLE or RFID technology to broadcast their location. And you can track more than just the whereabouts of your assets. You can learn about equipment usage patterns and locations – even when it’s not in use.

Asset tracking analytics provide information about how items are used, which departments use them the most, how often they get moved around the premises, how far they travel on a daily basis and even when the asset was last maintained. This information helps organisation optimise asset usage.

Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar Asset Tracking for Enterprise

Network Performance Management

IT service delivery is critical to business success. With an influx of emerging technologies and the rapid rate of change, network managers need end-to-end insight and complete visibility from the physical infrastructure and storage to the network and newest applications.

Using proprietary packet capture technology, the Viavi performance management solution offers the ability to mine network data and apply deep packet analytics to optimise resources in real time. This powerful toolset features fast capture rates and over a petabyte of storage capacity. This means you can immediately apply insights for predictive planning, issue prevention, troubleshooting, problem resolution, and network fine-tuning.

Test and monitor the interconnections between data centres and branch offices to help ensure the WAN connections do not become bottlenecks. The Viavi performance management solution can assist in determining whether your WAN provider may be impacting performance.

Distributed analysis keeps data cruising with 360° network visibility and provides access from high-level health views to individual data packets. You also get insight into latency-sensitive applications – plus advanced troubleshooting muscle with predictive analysis for managing distributed networks, increased bandwidth demands, and more.

What network teams need most is instant access to comprehensive network health and monitoring from the physical to the application layer. Viavi’s enterprise performance management solution provides comprehensive insight into network, storage, applications, and infrastructure.

Help ensure your network environment is fully optimised with real-time and historical summary dashboards, traffic flow analytics, utilisation metrics, and a snapshot of your delivery system. Maximise the lifetime value of your network infrastructure by following best practices and certifying the construction to industry standards.

Brochure: Viavi Observer Platform Overview

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