Telent News Feed

Presenting telent’s In-vehicle communications services

chris — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:32:05 +0100

The event brings together delegates from the UK and International Police Services as well as other enforcement agencies, emergency services and government departments.

Having installed voice and data equipment in over 10,000 vehicles as part of the Firelink Programme and with contracts to provide maintenance services for over 8,000 emergency services vehicles across the UK, telent has a solid track record in this market.

Join us at NAPFM to find out how we can cover every aspect of your in-vehicle communications, leaving you free to concentrate on your core business.

The NEC chooses telent for contact centre solution

chris — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:50:05 +0100

telent will provide a turnkey soft-ware based call recording solution encompassing installation, commissioning and integration, as well as support and maintenance, for calls made by customers to buy tickets for music, theatre and sporting events at venues across the country.

BT Global Services awards telent frame contract for Enterprise voice field maintenance services

chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:02:01 +0100

The three-year framework contract provides telent with the opportunity to supply a range of assurance and professional services for BT Global Services and their customers, across large and often complex multi-vendor estates. These networks range from small PBX switches through to large unified communications platforms and call centre applications.

telent awarded SISS maintenance contract by Northern Rail

chris — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:44:58 +0100

telent’s highly skilled telecoms engineers will provide a 24/7/365 maintenance and support service covering public address systems, public help points and Customer Information Systems (CIS). The contract, which lasts for 5 years, stretches from Derbyshire to the Scottish Borders and from the west coast to the east coast of England.

telent to deliver retail communications for a new ticket hall at Stratford International Station for Westfield

chris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:48:06 +0100

The new ticket hall will form an integral part of the larger retail and leisure development, Westfield Stratford City, which will be the gateway to the Olympic Park and will provide access to Stratford’s major transport interchanges for the Network Rail, London Underground and Docklands Light Rail as well as international rail links. Westfield Stratford City forms part of the wider regeneration of east London and the infrastructure is a crucial component of the master plan.

telent reaches another major milestone with BSkyB

chris — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:43:45 +0100

telent manages the volume deployment, installation, commissioning and systems integration, of access equipment as part of Sky Network Services Local Loop Unbundling programme (LLU), as well as the supply of associated installation materials. telent also marshals, configures and tests equipment in its National Distribution Centre before roll-out into the field, as well as providing first line maintenance and 24x7 support for Sky’s ADSL portfolio.

Network Rail awards telent two telecoms framework contracts

chris — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:02:13 +0100

telent, the technology services company, has been awarded two telecoms framework contracts by Network Rail covering its Western and South East Regions.

Under the framework contracts, telent will provide the telecoms equipment and services necessary to renew Network Rail’s operational railway communication networks and systems over the next 12-18 months.

telent and Swarco collaborate

chris — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:40:33 +0100

Announced at the Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam, the agreement is for five years and combines Swarco’s technical expertise and leading edge urban traffic products with telent’s industry experience and proven service delivery.

The first products to emerge from the partnership into the market will be the new range of Optima Traffic Signal Controllers and ancillary products which will be released in the 2nd quarter of 2010.

Don't miss telent at Nemex 2010

chris — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:45:32 +0100

NEMEX is the UK’s leading energy and renewables event, and is well positioned to offer innovative technology and tackle new challenges within the energy market. Large Multinationals, SMEs and the Public Sector attend NEMEX with a desire to source energy solutions; including energy management systems and energy efficient technologies.

Visit telent at stand S18 to discover more about our Intelligent Building Management solutions, including:

telent delivers award winning new Local Area Network and Public Address system on the Docklands Light Railway

chris — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:41:03 +0000

Serco Docklands, the first company in the UK to deploy such a system, selected telent in 2008 to undertake the system design and implementation of both the LAN network and PA system capitalising on telent’s extensive rail, IT and acoustic consultancy expertise.

telent and Atos Origin sponsor Future of Station Design conference and announce industry partnership

chris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:14:13 +0000

The two companies intend to work together to enable a safer and richer passenger experience, combined with more effective and efficient station operation. Good news for passengers and rail operators alike.

London Underground saves more than £100m through streamlined maintenance contracts

chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:17:59 +0000

The directorate, which carries out all routine maintenance across the Bakerloo, Central, Victoria, Waterloo & City, Circle, Hammersmith & City, District and Metropolitan lines, has let the contracts after a full-scale review of procurement from third-party suppliers.

Previous procurement of goods and services had meant that 56 suppliers were engaged by the Maintenance directorate, with 99 individual contracts.

Don’t miss telent at Intertraffic 2010

chris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:51 +0000

The show is one of the biggest events in the Traffic industry’s calendar, bringing together over 800 suppliers of infrastructure, ITS, traffic management, safety and parking solutions.

Visit telent at stand 10.220 to discover how we are leading the way in traffic technology services, providing a wide range of products and services including;

Traffic Controllers - The new Optima range of traffic and pedestrian control products
Signal Heads - Leading the way in high specification low power products

UTStarcom Joins With telent to Integrate, Resell Custom NGN Solutions in the United Kingdom

chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:42:07 +0000

UTStarcom's mSwitch® NGN products will be packaged with telent's technology services solutions to create a new Next Generation Network (NGN) solution set designed to specifically address the needs of UK operators in refreshing their existing networks and providing for the future deployment of multimedia services over packet-based access technologies.

Building on NGN successes in Europe and Asia Pacific, this strategic agreement enables UTStarcom to expand the reach and impact of its global mSwitch® solutions into the UK and Ireland.

telent awarded Station Information and Surveillance Systems contract by First Great Western

chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:21:32 +0000

This contract, the largest award of its kind by a Train Operating Company (TOC), will see the installation phase of the contract completed by November 2010 and maintenance of the systems continuing till 2015. The contract covers in excess of 400 new Customer Information System (CIS) screens, 500 new speakers and 150 CCTV cameras as well as all associated structures being installed and supported across First Great Western’s estate.

New online Services Tool and Catalogue launched

chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:47:13 +0000

telent provide a vast array of services from Acoustic Design to Voice over IP and you can now find out more about each of these in one comprehensive guide. Our Service Catalogue provides a description of over 140 telent service lines with signposts to where you can find further information and details of who you would need to contact to find out more.

telent exceeds target and raises over £60,000 for the NSPCC

chris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:49:45 +0000

To reach this total, telent staff were significantly involved in numerous fund raisings activities including; sports challenges such as the London Marathon and the charity’s national Big Bike Ride, collections at offices and London Underground stations, raffles, auctions and through the company’s salary donation scheme.

telent’s customers, suppliers and partners have also helped through supporting the company’s fifth annual charity golf day, which alone raised over £54,000, operating a mobile phone recycling scheme and general donations.

Network Rail order a further 700 GSM-R hand-portable radios

telent — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:08:24 +0000

Train crew radios will be issued with a ‘Railway Emergency Call’ only facility. Engineers will have radios enabled to access key network performance data which will support national deployment and site commissioning. The commissioning teams themselves will receive 35 radios which have been specially adapted to provide network measurement facilities that will speed up trackside monitoring. 250 radios are destined for maintenance staff.

telent Targets Mid-Market Enterprises With ‘Unified Communications & Control’ (UCC) Proposition

chris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:18:04 +0000

telent, the technology services company, today unveils plans for its Integrated Solutions Business Unit to address mid-market enterprises and public sector organisations with its innovative ‘Unified Communications & Control’ (UCC) proposition. This unique offering enables converged IT communications networks and building management control systems to be unified into a single, intelligent infrastructure underpinned by telent’s MICA (Management Integration & Control of Assets) solution.

Pension trustee and telent establish comprehensive funding agreement for the GEC 1972 (Pension) plan

chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:50 +0000

The comprehensive agreement allows telent and the Trustee to strengthen the safety and security of the pension benefits that its 56,000 members have already built up within the Plan. At the same time it allows the company to continue to invest in and grow the business. Importantly, the interests of the company and the Trustee are aligned with this agreement in advancing the security of member benefits whilst enabling the future development of the company.

Key areas of the agreement: