Networking | Cabling, New Routers and Switches, Wireless

Been a while since we posted some news, been a bit busy over the festive season dealing with networking.

One of our current projects involves quite a bit of networking, but right from the basics, not just slotting some new kit into a shiny comms rack, but working "outside" laying cables around two large areas, then interconnecting them with a point to point wireless link (this also involves determining Fresnel Zone Clearance, ten points to anyone who can tell me what that is!) (without googling it!).

Once all that's done we can get back to the shiny comms racks and install some kit.

The project is essentially quite a large expansion of a current companies infrastructure into new premises, whilst upgrading the Networking Kit, Servers and Workstations. Although some good network designs have been produced for the infrastructure, we've had to re-work a few things on the fly.

The network should be ready within the next two weeks, so we'll publish a bit more detail later.

New Websites | Corporate and Ecommerce

The past couple of months has finally revealed the launch of three new websites.

Two of which for the same company, one Corporate Site and one Ecommerce, both quite large websites built for a National Company within a tight(ish) deadline.

Not that the finished articles were rushed off course!

And another site has been launched to promote Scottish Venison, primarily a web portal for everything venison related.

These projects mark quite an achievement for Aerovision IT, a wealth of adiditional functionality has been created to support both of these sites.

Now we have the ongoing tasks of optimising and maintaining the backends!

Read more on the Projects Page >> or click the links below to see the actual sites:

• www.capitalcooling.com
• www.scottish-venison.info

Dundee Heritage

After another long selection process, we have been given the go-ahead to begin supporting the Dundee Heritage Trust, RRS Discovery and Verdant Works family of Websites.

Our role will be to act as Webmaster for the organisation, providing technical support for the websites as well as the ongoing maintenance required to keep the websites at the leading edge of web technologies.

We will also implement an SEO routine, beginning with a re-write/upgrade of the HTML code (to XHTML), ensuring it all validates with the W3C Validation Service. Once that has been done we can concentrate on improving organic visits to the websites, modifying the layout where necessary to improve the user experience.

The main website is quite large, with a lot of code to update, so we had better stop writing this news page and get back to work!

A project page will be uploaded with more information shortly.

Security Policy

A client in Glasgow has to achieve a specific ISO status within three weeks and remain certified indefinately.

Our solution is to design an Active Directory Architecture which will adhere to the exact requirements of the ISO requirements.

Using a well planned system of Organisational Units and Group Policy Objects we will tie down the security of the companies internal and external network infrastructure.

This project will also involve upgrading the current network with more advance Server equipment and expanding the companies remote access capability.

New Websites Launched

Website Design getting very busy now, seem to be working on several at the same time, however have managed to launch a couple of new ones, Scottish Wedding Planners and Gus Thompson Photography just gone live. Check them out, give me some feedback!

IT Security Consulting Support | Edinburgh

After a long selection process we now provide IT Security Consulting Support to a National Company based in Edinburgh.

Our primary role will be to firstly secure the companies network, then provide managed security and networking support on a daily basis to ensure the integrity of the companies data.

The company mostly uses Cisco devices within the core of the network (ASA, Routers, MLS, VOIP etc..) which allows us to design a very secure system based on Cisco's Self Defending Network Topology.

We will also run a system of continuous Penetration Testing, obviously using other outside agencies to try and crack our security (not likely!) along with auditing and day to day monitoring of network usage.

New Websites Live!

Not had time to build any projects pages for these just yet, but some new websites have recently gone live, you can see them here;

Fleet Management Solutions
Office Outsource UK
The Joy of Life

Currently we are building websites for a Farm Shop, a Wine and Whiskey Shop and a London Based Antique Dealer, keep an eye on our projects page for information