Wednesday 17 March 2010

NS Optimum 'N' Managed Wireless Solutions

NS Optimum, ICT Partner with Schools & Colleges - Wireless Networks

NS Optimum will survey your school, design your wireless network and provide you with extremely competetive quotations free of charge.

As a national ICT reseller to schools and colleges and not being tied down to one single manufacturer, NS Optimum can offer you the best solution for your school, chosen from all manufacturers and all technologies. NS Optimum use all in-house engineer teams and do not sub-contract out work to make sure that all staff both on and off-site are trained appropriately and qualified to the necessary levels. NS Optimum will provide you with a total solution from installing the data and electrical cabling, through installation and ongoing support and advice for the school.

NS Optimum have customer references the length and bredth of the UK who are more than happy to pass on the word of our good work and are willing to speak to new customers about their experiences with NS Optimum and the advice, equipment and support that they recieve. Please ask and we will send you some relevant customer reference details.

Please call NS Optimum on 01926 745608 or email info@nsoptimum.co.uk if you would like more information on the solutions that we offer and how NS Optimum can help you.

Thursday 11 March 2010

NS Optimum - School ICT Network Provider & Partner

NS Optimum will help & advise your school with its future ICT developments from the planning & design stage through installation and configuration and will support the schools ICT into the future. As well as ICT network design, NS Optimum can supply, install and support:

Network Domain Servers, Exchange Servers, Fileservers, ISA servers, Storage Servers, Rackmounted, Pedestal or Virtual Servers.

Curriculum, Teacher & Media PC's, Laptops, Netbooks, Mini ITX PC's, All-In-One PC's

Microsoft Software, Curriculum Software, Blackcat, Granada, Sherston Software (such as Supertools, Tizzy's Toolbox, 2Simple Education software & much more)

Interactive Whitebaords & Projectors, Smartboards, Promethean Hitachi & Interwrite boards - Fully installed solutions with audio and all required electric sockets installed by NS Optimum in-house NIC:EIC electricians.

NS Optimum Digital Signage Screens - large format screens for displaying pupils work, noticeboards, lunch menu's, wet breaks etc. All fully installed with software to manage all of your screens from a central controlling PC.

Full installation of all ICT equipment, software and network management tools onto your schools network by a CRB checked, Microsoft qualified technical engineer.

NS Optimum work with schools all across the UK and therefore are used to working around children and classes during term time. NS Optimum pride ourselves on our flexibility and therefore we can work late into the evenings, early in the mornings, over weekends and certainly through the school holidays to ensure your school receives the installation & staff ICT training within the desired timescales.

Following on from your schools ICT network installation, NS Optimum will support your network into the future. NS Optimum basic support includes FREE technical telephone support & 3 year onsite hardware server warranty, on top of this, you can then choose from a selection of NS Optimum support add-ons such as:
NS Optimum Remote Diagnostic Support
Rent'a'Techie Regular Onsite Engineer Visits - 1 day per month, fortnight or week
NS Optimum Managed Service Support - part-time or full time onsite Engineers or Technicians.

You will have a dedicated NS Optimum Account Manager throughout the whole process, from design, through installation and post installation into future development. Your dedicated Account Manager will be your point of contact should you need any further advice, have any questions or need to discuss support issues.

Please call NS Optimum on 01926 745608 to arrange a meeting or discuss your requirements.
Alternatively you can email the sales department on sales@nsoptimum.co.uk

We look forward to hearing from you http://www.nsoptimum.co.uk

Friday 5 March 2010

NS Optimum

NS Optimum - Total ICT Provider to schools & colleges in the UK - http://www.nsoptimum.co.uk

Thursday 4 March 2010

NS OPTIMUM SELECTED AS A PROVISIONAL ‘APPROVED SUPPLIER’ FOR THE GOVERNMENT’S HOME ACCESS PROGRAMME.

http://www.nsoptimum.co.uk/company/NewsPressReleases.htm


Leading ICT schools’ computer provider, NS Optimum, is delighted to have been awarded provisional Approved Supplier status for the Government’s £300 million Home Access programme which was launched in January 2010.

The programme provides eligible low-income families with children in school years 3-9 in state-maintained education in England (typically aged between 7 and 14 years), and children being looked after by their local authority, with a one-off grant of up to £528 to buy a compliant computer and/or broadband internet access.

It is part of the Government’s efforts to give all learners an equal opportunity to get on in school. This will not only have benefits for the learners but also improve IT skills and assist the economy in the long term by allowing children to boost their education and life skills. It will also provide many social and economic benefits for the whole family through being connected to the internet.

Schools’ Secretary Ed Balls said there had been "a fantastic response from families to the ground-breaking offer we've made". He said that “computers are as essential as books, pens and paper to help children learn.” Recent evidence has suggested that having a computer at home associates with a 2 grade improvement in one subject at GCSE. This means that a pupil who would have got a D, could, with the effective use of technology at home, now get a B at GCSE.
NS Optimum is delighted to be listed as a provisional Approved Supplier to the Home Access programme as it further reinforces the part they play in addressing inequalities in access to computers and the internet, and helping all people to realise their full potential.

The grants will entitle eligible families to acquire a package worth up to £528, including:
- A computer built to a pre-defined specification
- 12 months’ fixed or mobile broadband access
- Spreadsheet and word processing software
- Wraparound package of support, warranty and product all in a box
- Internet filtering/parental controls, anti-virus and Assistive Technology software
- The Windows Live suite, including Messenger and Photo Gallery
- Microsoft Movie Maker and Microsoft Media Player
- A range of online services
- Microsoft Learning Essentials
- Comprehensive hot-line support and warranty for one year
- Help, advice & training on getting started on the internet
- Helpdesk staffed from 8am – 9pm
More information about NS Optimum can be found at www.nsoptimum.co.uk
or call 01926 880300.

For more information on eligibility and applying for a grant go to www.homeaccess.org.uk or call 0333 200 1004 to contact the Home Access Grant Administration Service directly.
Notes to editors

About NS Optimum
NS Optimum recently received an award for Corporate Social Responsibility for their donation programme to the emerging market in the Dominican Republic. In 2007, NS Optimum began to recondition used, serviceable computers that schools and other customers decided to replace, and donated them to schools on the Caribbean island. The team continue to co-ordinate a sustained project to refurbish used computers, servers, other hardware and networking equipment for supply to the island’s schools.

About Home Access (www.homeaccess.org.uk)

The Home Access programme provides grants to eligible families with children in full-time education in England. The grant enables them to buy a computer and/or internet access to support learning from home. The programme aims to benefit more than 270,000 households that currently lack access by March 2011 and is being managed for the Government by Becta.
About Becta (www.becta.org.uk)

Becta is the government agency leading the national drive to ensure the effective use of technology through learning. It is Becta's ambition to use the benefits of technology to create a more exciting, rewarding and successful experience for learners of all ages and abilities, enabling them to achieve their potential.

Tuesday 2 March 2010

NS Optimum take part in UKTI trade mission to the Caribbean

NS Optimum Limited, a UK supplier of ICT to schools, recently took part in a UK Trade & Investment mission to the Caribbean.

http://www.nsoptimum.co.uk