Artois Championship goes for Hosted VoIP

Friday, 08 June 2007 00:00

The Artois Championships chooses UK VoIP provider

Event communications specialists Max WiFi have been selected to supply voice and data communications to The Artois Championships, the world renowned men’s tennis tournament held at the Queen’s Club, West London, 11th – 17th June.

Max WiFi will look after everything from leasing the phones, ordering lines and Internet connections to installing the network and providing technical support to end users.

“This is our fifth year supplying The Artois Championships with WiFi, but our first to offer a full IP telecoms package.” Says Richard Hughes, Technical Director, Max WiFi.

“We’ve supplied 60 VoIP phones from hosted VoIP provider Voicenet Solutions. They’ll be used onsite by everyone including security, Tournament Directors, the players’ concierge and perhaps the most demanding, the media centre who expect the service to be stable and fast for the duration of the event. To make sure everything runs smoothly we’ll have a Voicenet Solutions trained administrator on hand to configure the phones and to meet all the requirements of the organisers and the press.”

“We were looking for a VoIP solution for sometime, firstly it had to be financially viable, and secondly, able to be installed easily as it is used by an array of clients at separate events around the country. Voicenet Solutions’ pure VoIP offering was ideal. They offer a plug-in and go solution plus they gave us a flexible contract that fitted in perfectly with the services we offer to event organisers.”

Max WiFi will be using an X-Rio Q-Balancer, which is perfect for an event of this nature as an ideal alternative to a high number of routers and networks. With the X-Rio Q-Balancer, Max WiFi is able to have multiple broadband lines for one network instead of many making for easier management and greater reliability.

“We’re very happy with the result of the communications and the fact that WiFi can be used throughout Queen’s Club, which will enable photographers to send photos to their news agencies from centre court.”

David Crombie, CEO of Voicenet Solutions commented “Max WiFi’s communications offering is a perfect example of the versatility of hosted VoIP. It highlights the ease of the plug-in and go implementation plus the durability of our communications solution.”

The Artois Championships start on 11th June and lasts for a week, culminating in the final on Sunday 17th June for more information please visit www.artoischampionships.com

Notes to editor

About The Artois Championships

With its global audience, the Artois Championships are recognised as one of the top 10 tennis events in the world. Held in the run up to Wimbledon, the Championships are consistently supported by the cream of men's singles and doubles players.

Since its inception in 1979, 25 of the last 27 Wimbledon champions have played at the Championships. Connors, Lendl, Edberg and Sampras are amongst the legends of the game that have proudly held the massive silver Artois Championships trophy aloft.

Recent Championships have been dominated by two former World No.1 players - Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick. With Hewitt winning a hat-trick of titles from 2000-02, Roddick then equalled the feat by doing the same from 2003-05.

In 2006, with both players attempting to match McEnroe and Becker's record of claiming four Championships, it was the Australian Hewitt who recaptured the title and claiming that magic fourth by overcoming James Blake in the final.

www.artoischampionships.com

About Max WiFi

Max WiFi has been providing Fixed and Wireless Internet Access to clients across the UK for four years. As well as The Artois Championships clients have included The European PGA Golf Tournament, The Wales Rally GB and The Clipper Race.

Based in Hampshire, MAX WiFi store and maintain a vast array of equipment that they use to deliver a bespoke network for every event that we do. Our services include Internet provisioning; web portal design, network security and monitoring as well as technical support to the end users of the service for the duration of the event.

www.maxwifi.co.uk

About Voicenet Solutions

Based in Aylesbury UK, Voicenet Solutions is a hosted VoIP telephony provider specialising in the provisioning of business grade solutions through its own network located at their operations centre in the City of London.

Voicenet Solutions Ltd was established in 2004 with the sole aim of delivering VoIP telecom solutions to the UK business market. Voicenet Solutions offers a secure, out-of-the-box, best-of-breed telephony solution with flexibility and substantially reduced operating costs.

www.voicenet-solutions.com