ISPA hosts Technical Workshop on SD-WAN with Juniper and Xantaro

On March 7, ISPA was pleased to host its first members' technical workshop of 2019 on SD-Wan for Service Providers. Held with Juniper and Xantaro, the fully booked session featured a series of enlightening presentations from Juniper and Xantaro and finished with networking drinks.

ISPA will be holding further workshops throughout the year, please get in contact if you would like to help shape or contribute to future sessions to admin@ispa.org.uk

ISPA's broadband policy update

A busy month on broadband policy has seen ISPA respond to DCMS’s Statement of Strategic Priorities to Ofcom, setting out the Industry’s view on how the future market should be regulated. We will be continuing our campaign on telecoms business rates contributing written evidence to the Treasury Select Committee and looking forward to the next subgroup meeting which will include a workshop with the head of DCMS’ Barrier Busting Task Force, Pete McDougall.

ISPA brings together industry, Government and regulators to discuss emerging policy issues

In March, ISPA convened a group of prominent industry experts and representatives from Government and regulators for a workshop to discuss emerging issues related to online safety and cyber security. ISPA will continue to work closely with key stakeholders over the coming months to ensure that these issues are addressed and that our members’ voices are heard.

ISPA Conference 2019
Securing Network Rollout and Integrity
Early Bird tickets now on sale!

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22nd May 2019
9am-2pm

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This year's Conference theme is Securing Network Rollout and Integrity and the panel sessions will ask:

  • What is next for business broadband?

How can barriers to broadband roll out be busted in a collaborative way?How should ISP respond to DNS over HTTPS by default? / Is DNS over HTTPS going to lock ISPs out of their networks?There will be also Q&A with Openreach, presentation from Point Topic, Salumanus and netgem.tv.

ISPA members can claim one free ticket per company, please contact admin@ispa.org.uk to reserve yours.  Tickets can be purchased in the button below.

Book your tickets for ISPA Conference here

ISPA Awards Ceremony

11th July 2019
7pm-1am
Sheraton Grand Park Lane Hotel, London

Thank you to all who submitted their entries for the 21st annual ISPA Awards. We received exceptinally high number of entries and the shortlist will be announced on 25th April.

The ISPA Awards ceremony is one of the highlights of the ISP calendar for our members where you can meet all your peers and celebrate another successful year in style. This year we are back in fabulous art deco ballroom of Sheraton Grand Park Lane Hotel on Piccadilly in London. Tickets are now on sale through the button below.

The gala includes networking drinks reception, a three course meal with wine, awards ceremony hosted by a famous comedian and live band to finish off the proceedings. You can buy individual tickets or get a discount if you book a whole table (for 10 people).

Book your tickets for the ISPA Awards here

Click here to view the ISPA Awards newest sponsorship pack

ISPA Awards Sponsors

 

To join our sponsors in being associated with excellence in the sector, raise your company’s profile by sponsoring the individual categories. The sponsorship is going fast so contact us today to secure your preferred category. The benefits include free tickets to the awards ceremony, your company's profile in mailouts to the wider tech community, your logo on the press releases, ISPA website, social media promotions, a full page advert in the awards brochure, roll out banner at the reception and many more...

Email awards@ispa.org.ukif you are interested.

ISPA Partnership
ISPA Partners for 2019

This month article is from our Partners - DrayTek

Vigor AP-910C Ceiling Wireless Access Point

  • Dual Band 802.11ac
  • Ceiling or wall installation
  • 4 SSIDs (for VLANs) for each frequency band
  • 802.3af PoE or powered using supplied 12V PSU
  • Centrally Managed by VigorACS or DrayTek router

The Vigor AP-910c is a high specification professional access point that ensures reliable and flexible coverage to all manner of applications. A vast array of security and management features helps the AP-910c improve and protect the integrity of your wireless LAN and VLAN support allows isolation of Guest WiFi.

The VigorAP-910c provides unobstructed coverage and blends aesthetically into any home or office environment thanks to its shape, size and hidden cable entry.
It is ideal for adding wireless connectivity to an existing LAN, or for expanding the range of an existing wireless LAN by using the WDS repeater features.

If you would like to join ISPA as a partner to regularly engage with our members and get strong visibility, thought-leadership and networking benefits at several events, please get in touch with Audrey: audrey@ispa.org.uk 

Host Media joined ISPA

ISPA welcomed Host Media, who joined as members in March.

Since 2008 Host Media has been dedicated to providing high quality, reliable and award winning services at a great price. With hosting locations and customers around the world, Host Media is a truly global service provider.

Partner Events

This month ISPA is partnering with Connected Car Summit on 24th and 25th April and  IoT Tech Expo Global 2019, taking place on 25th and 26th April.

The other events that ISPA is a media partner of are Intelligent Automation and AI In Insurance Europe 2019  in May, for which ISPA members can get £100 discount; and Connected Britain in June, with 15% discount to our members.

For all partner events details and exclusive discount codes for ISPA members, please visit our website.