Partners
Solar are proud to announce business partnerships with the following companies.
Avaya
Avaya designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®.
Focussed on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable IP telephony software applications, systems and services. Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications - and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services - Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results.
ShoreTel
ShoreTel is the fastest growing IP PBX company in the United States and the leader in customer satisfaction. The company has shipped its groundbreaking solutions since 1998 and continues to outpace the rapidly expanding IP telephony market with technological advances and sales that are doubling year over year. ShoreTel voice systems are designed to make businesses smarter, setting new standards for usability and manageability while reducing telecommunications costs. A uniquely distributed architecture extends enterprise-class voice services to every office and outpost, keeping employees fully connected wherever they go. A select, worldwide group of channel partners provide top-notch service and support.
Wizard Systems
Established in 1993, Wizard systems are a UK based company who specialises in the implementation of complete and permanent software solutions to improve Sales, Marketing, Service and Support Productivity.
Panasonic
Panasonic UK was established in 1972. Since then the company has grown substantially and become a leading supplier of consumer and business related electronics products. Its headquarters is located in Bracknell, Berkshire and this is supported by a national Logistics Centre in Northampton. The company currently employs more than 500 staff and has an annual turnover in excess of ?700m. There are also separate companies within the UK responsible for the sales of industrial products such as components and computer peripherals (Panasonic Industrial) and professional video and broadcast products (Panasonic Broadcast. Panasonic's parent company, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., has also established a number of manufacturing plants in the UKL and in total the company now employs around 4,000 people in the UK. The UK operation is part of a significant European presence, both in manufacturing, sales and R&D which now employ some 15,000 people in total.
Extreme Networks
Based in Santa Clara, California, Extreme Networks has expanded from it's beginnings in 1996 to be a multinational specialist in the designing, building and installation of sophisticated Ethernet Solutions, with a presence in over 50 countries.
Oak
Leaders in Call management, and Call recording systems, Oak have installed over 20,000 systems in the UK
BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.
In the UK, BT serves more than 20 million business and residential customers with more than 30 million exchange lines, as well as providing network services to other licensed operators.
Microsoft
Quite possibly the most successful and influential software company in the world, Microsoft have experienced an almost exponential growth since it?s beginnings in 1975, becoming the software of choice by many of the foremost companies worldwide. Its products come preinstalled on the majority of new PCs purchased around the world, and its Microsoft Office package is the most successful suite of applications to date.
Drumbeat
Drumbeat Communications was established in 2005 following the sale of Call Options UK Ltd, a telecommunications company established by MD Mark Colquhoun in 1998. Call Options' core expertise was the provision of calls and line rental to business users. Highly successful, Call Options boasted a client base of well over 1,000 customers at the time of its sale to Adept Telecom Ltd. Adept Telecom's interest was solely in this customer base so Mark retained the existing infrastructure of Call Options as the framework for Drumbeat Communications.
Ortronics
Ortronics? leads the global data communications networking industry in the development, design of the most advanced, highest performing, structured cabling systems and solutions that support today?s multimedia networks, applications and emerging technologies.
Ortronics has been established for over 9 years in the UK. Their aim: To provide a range of unique Structured Cabling solutions to meet their customer?s requirements. They have over those years introduced new products in line with the market trends and Standards. Today their mission is to provide the most advanced Category 5e, Category 6 and Fibre solutions to be installed. This has lead to Ortronics launching the Clarity6 and Clarity5E copper products offering guaranteed headroom above the Standards.
HP
Our preferred supplier of computer hardware, HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business.
Their $4 billion annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies, so that they can better serve customers and enter new markets. They invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of their customers.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.
Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 47,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching.
Rack Space
Rackspace is Europe's most successful managed hosting company, hosting mission critical websites and internet applications for over 2,500 customers. Currently experiencing growth of around 80% per year, Rackspace is also Europe's fastest growing managed hosting company.
As one of only a few companies who specialise in managed hosting, Rackspace is totally focused and experienced in managed hosting. Every system and process has been built exclusively for delivering managed hosting, with support staff highly trained for supporting complex hosting environments. Rackspace supplies the necessary superstructure - web, application and database servers, network devices, bandwidth and managed services - needed to run any outsourced hosted solution. Solutions are hosted in state-of-the-art, secure data centres, watched over by certified staff in a secure environment.
Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in providing software, appliances, and services to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their most important asset ? information.
Symantec is focused on helping customers protect their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions. Headquartered in California, Symantec has operations in 40 countries.
O2
O2 is a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK. It is the leader in non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music and video, as well as data connections via GPRS, 3G and WLAN.
O2 UK is part of the wider O2 group which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telef?nica S.A. O2 comprises mobile network operators in the UK and Ireland, along with integrated fixed/mobile businesses in Germany, the Czech Republic (Telef?nica O2 Czech Republic) and the Isle of Man (Manx Telecom). It also owns 50 percent of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk, joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany respectively. In addition, O2 includes O2 Airwave, which supplies secure digital communications to the emergency services, including the Police, Ambulance and Fire, as well as other public safety organisations.
Pipex
As the UK?s first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP), Pipex has over a million customers and has been a market leader for over a decade. Offering state-of-the-art solutions for broadband, voice calls, network services, hosting and domain name registration, we?re here for everyone, from blue chip organisations looking for online managed security or first time Internet users searching for broadband with telephone calls on one bill.
Orange
Today the France Telecom Group including Orange keeps *88.6 million mobile customers across 23 countries in touch. They're not just talking - Orange makes it easier for them to communicate in ways that are richer and more engaging.
From their work life to their home life, Orange customers have the flexibility to choose how and when they connect to people, information and entertainment. We spend a little time listening to them. That's the key to our future success.
Canon
The Canon brand is trusted the world over ? the Financial Times placed Canon at number 25 among the world?s most respected companies, out of over 1000 companies.
For over 70 years Canon have made it their business to deliver leading edge imaging technologies to their customers. From image capture, manipulation and management to image printing, transmission and sharing, they have a history of pioneering new developments that keep the industry constantly moving.
Networks First
Founded in January 1990, Networks First established itself as a key provider of support services and technology for network infrastructures; initially in data networking and more recently in the converged IP Telephony market. The company has grown steadily since its transition to a support services organisation in 2003 and is now the UK?s largest specialist maintainer of network infrastructures.
Fujitsu Siemens
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT vendor, with advanced technology and a superior portfolio. As a joint venture between Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, Fujitsu Siemens Computers was formed on 1 October 1999, and benefits from the global strengths and innovation power of its parent companies.
Samsung
Since its founding in 1938, SAMSUNG has maintained a mission statement that responds both to its own change, and to new developments in the world: "Economic contribution to the nation," "Priority to human resources," "Pursuit of rationalism." Each slogan represents significant moments in SAMSUNG's history, reflecting different stages of the company's growth from a domestic industrial leader into a global consumer electronics powerhouse.
AEC
AEC are a Global UPS Manufacturer of Uninterruptible Power, UPS Systems, Supplies, Power Management and much More.
A leader in UPS design and manufacture from 500va to 1MVA Uninterruptible Power supplies. AEC supply Uninterruptible Power supplies, Generators, Batteries, Rectifiers, Inverters and all Power Management Equipment to trade only, offering a unique service and after sales support to the reseller whether supplying a Disaster recovery centre or a small office (SOHO). With offices in Asia, Europe and the UK, AEC are continually advancing technology.


