Vendor Certification Training: Another Value-Added Service from Lan 1
At Lan 1 we pride ourselves on the value we can bring to your organisation. Things such as co-marketing campaigns, rapid replacement on critical hardware, pre-configuration and extended warranties are just a few of the value-adds that spring to mind.
Lan 1 also understands that the greatest investment an organisation can make is building strong channel relationships. Great products require a great team of partners with the confidence to sell, install, support and use the product as if it were their own. The only way to acheive this is through Vendor Certification Training.
Vendor Certification Training is a valuable tool for the reseller, bringing to you recognition throughout the entire channel as experts in particular products. Many vendors, TalkSwitch for example, will only pass leads onto Certified Resellers. This ensures that the sale, implementation and support of the technology/s is in well trained, expert hands.
There are many Vendor Certificaiton Training courses going on at the moment and are included below:
Click on the course link above and register today. Don't miss your chance to become certified and be recognised by vendor, distributor and end-user as an expert in the field.
     
How Lan 1 maximises the ROI for both reseller and end-user
It has always been Lan 1's philosophy never to sell direct to the end-user. In saying this, we often receive enquiries or leads directly from end-users who have seen us at tradeshows or been on the receiving end of an end-user marketing campaign. So what happens with these leads and how can it help you as a reseller?
Lan 1 invests both time and money into first generating, then farming such leads including the follow-up and qualification. Once we are convinced there is potential to sell then lead is deemed an opportunity. The opportunity is then passed on to our most qualified reseller, depending on location, project size and technical level of implementation and support required. Throughout the entire process Lan 1 works with you to ensure the maximum ROI for you and your customer.
Come and see us at the following tradeshows/conferences
Lan 1 participates in a wide variety of tradeshows and conferences around Australia each year. The main objective of these events is to generate interest in our product portfolio, increase awareness of our branding and vendor branding and to generate leads that will hopefully become an opportunity.
Tradeshows and conferences also allow our sales and technical team to travel to a single place, making a great forum for our resellers and partners to visit us and learn more about our offerings.
Currently we are assured of attending the following trade exhibitions and would love to talk to you about current and future projects during the sessions.
To schedule a meeting at any of the trade exhibits please email events@lan1.com.au and provide some further information including your name, exhibition you wish to meet at and a brief overview of the opportunity.
  
What is Annex M?
A number of ISPs are now offering Annex M ADSL2+ but what is it? The commonly available version of ADSL2+ in use in the Australian broadband marketplace today is called 'ADSL2+ Annex A' and it supports a maximum upstream data rate of around 1Mb/s. ADSL2+ Annex M is a new, high speed mode of ADSL2+ which allows the upstream data rate to be increased beyond that Annex A limit. Internode , iiNet and others have worked for more than 12 months to have the Australian Network Deployment Rules changed to allow the use of Annex M mode in Australia. The upstream speeds practically achieved using Annex M depend on the same factors that impact downstream ADSL2+ speed - the length and condition of the phone line and the quality of your wiring (amongst others).
Typically achieved upstream speeds in our customer base at this time range up to about 2.5 Megabits per second, with typical speeds on good lines in the 1.6 to 2.2 Megabit per second range. No standard modems are compliant with Annex M however Lan 1 does offer a variety of Integrated Access Devices (IAD) which are Annex M compliant.
D-Link DSL-502T - USB / Ethernet Combo ADSL Modem. IP Router/Broadband Internet Gateway & Hardware Firewall. RRP $80inc
Lan 1 code: DLKDSL502T
D-Link DSL-504T - ADSL Router with 4-Port 10/100Mbps Switch (Upgradable to ADSL2 / ADSL2+). RRP $103inc
Lan 1 code: DLKDSL504T
D-Link DSL-G604T - AirPlusG+ 11/22/54Mbps Wireless ADSL Router with 4-port 10/100Mbps switch ADSL modem. RRP $140inc
Lan 1 code: DLKDSLG604T
D-Link DSL-2740B - RangeBooster N Wireless ADSL2/2+ Router with 4-Port 10/100Mbps Switch. RRP $290
Lan 1 code: DLKDSL2740B
ZyXEL P-2602R-D Series - ADSL2+ VoIP IAD. RRP $144inc
Lan 1 code: ZYXP2602RD1A
ZyXEL P-2602HWL-D Series - 802.11g Wireless ADSL2+ VoIP IAD. RRP $208inc
Lan 1 code: ZYXP2602HWLD1A
ZyXEL P-2608HWL-D1 - ADSL VoIP IAD with ADSL2+ modem, 8 telephone ports, 4 port 10/100 switch, lifeline and 802.11g Wireless LAN connectivity. Firewall Protection and IPSec VPN Security. RRP $518inc
Lan 1 code: ZYXP2608HWLD1
For further information including DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal or see Lan 1's Interactive Pricelist (IPL). Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
Motorola Announces RFS6000 Wireless Switch
Wireless LAN switching and voice communications platform for medium to large enterprises.
The RFS6000 provides an integrated wireless LAN communication platform that enables the delivery of highly secure mobile voice and data services inside and outside the enterprise. The wireless switch simplifies and reduces the cost associated with converged solutions through a comprehensive feature set that delivers best-in-class performance, security, scalability and manageability to meet the demands of mission-critical business applications.
Maximize benefits and minimize costs — inside and outside the enterprise
Motorola's Wi-NG architecture reduces installation and maintenance costs by providing a single infrastructure for mobile voice and data inside and outside the enterprise.
Cost-effective, comprehensive high-performance voice services
Support for VoWLAN provides cost-effective voice services throughout campus environments, enabling push-to-talk and more for employees inside the four walls as well as in outside areas.
Enterprise security for voice and data
Comprehensive network security features keep wireless transmissions secure and provide constant compliance with government regulations such as HIPAA and PCI.
Extensible and scalable
A user accessible ExpressCard™ slot allows the addition of a broadband card (3G/4G) for a redundant wireless WAN backhaul connection, increasing resilience for remote branch offices. The ability to cluster up to 12 RFS6000 RF Switches provides the high level of scalability required for large enterprise deployments.
Raising the Bar on Enterprise Class Performance
Designed to support large scale high bandwidth enterprise deployments, the RFS6000 offers a multicore multithreaded CPU-based architecture that is capable of supporting 2,000 to 20,000 mobile devices and up to 48 dual radio 802.11 a/b/g access ports. In addition, the 802.11n ready device offers the failover capabilities and cluster management required to ensure high availability.
Cost-effective centralized management
The RFS6000 provides unified management of network hardware, software configuration, and network policies, complete with built-in process monitors and troubleshooting tools.
Adaptive AP for increased network flexibility and site survivability
The RFS6000 delivers a new capability that simplifies and reduces the cost of extending mobility to remote, branch, small and home offices. Motorola's AP-51X1 access points can be deployed at remote locations yet centrally managed in the Network Operations Center (NOC) through the RFS6000.
Dowload the RFS6000 Specification Sheet
For further information including DLR pricing please talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
Warranty for ATTO Host Adapters increases to 3 years
Great News!! Effective immediately and retroactive to January 1st 2008, the standard warranty for ATTO Host Adapters will be 3 years. Based on a number of factors including market, sales and customer feedback we have decided to increase the standard host adapter warranty period from 2 years to 3 years. ATTO has long provided a highly reliable product in the market place and this further reinforces ATTO's stand on quality!
for further information including DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal or see Lan 1's Interactive Pricelist (IPL). Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller. 
ATTO announces early release of 8Gb Fibre Channel
Celerity 8-Gb Host Adapters will be available to all Channels in early August of this year (2008) !!! ATTO orignially planned to release the 8Gb FC in mid 2009 but changed their plan to early release. Jennifer Bui of ATTO said "the decision is based on our competitors taking a more aggressive approach and making their 8-Gb products available immediately to their respective channels. This acceleration of 8-Gb technology will help stimulate market pull and end user acceptance."
for further information including DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal or see Lan 1's Interactive Pricelist (IPL). Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
New Adaptec Cards are Awesome
David Field of AtomicPC.com.au recently reviewed Adaptec's range of new SAS/SATA RAID cards. Here is what he thought.
One card, 28 hard drives... or 256, if you really want...
We like Adaptec here at Atomic, because its epic 31605 card powered the epic Big Willy.
In the spirit of celebrating systems that are deliciously large and powerful, the Adaptec engineers dropped by our offices last week to demonstrate their new range of SAS/SATA RAID cards. The top of the line one is called the 52445, and it's the first card in the world that will directly support 28 hard drives, regardless of SAS or SATA connection.
It can support more than that indirectly, thanks to the joy of SAS expanders. Basically you hook up a cable from the card and hook it into an enclosure next to your server. Inside that enclosure is an expander that connects all the hard drives to the card through that one cable. Your card can then talk to every drive in the system. You can connect up to 256 drives to a card, and it doesn't matter if those drives are SAS, SATA or both.
The biggest change from the old series is that the brains of the operation is now Intel's IOP348 I/O processor -- the 1.2GHz RAID on Chip formerly known as Sunrise Lake. The processor and controller in the older series used to comprise two large and chips that took up a lot of PCB real estate, but now that they've been replaced by one chip, there's enough room to fit six internal Mini SAS connectors (each of which fans out into four SAS connectors) onto a PCB the size of a sound card.
The cool thing about all this is that every card in the new series is based on the RAID on Chip processor, and there are plenty of versions available that support various numbers of drives. They all run through 8X PCI-e and all have 512MB of memory (except the baby internal 4 port card which only needs 256MB). They all have drilled backplanes so the passive airflow you get over the card can flow out the back of the case.
It was interesting chatting with the engineers, because we found out that there are a lot more SATA drives being used in the server world than we had expected. After pontificating, we concluded that it's the media heavy internet that is responsible for this. SAS drives are fantastic for databases where lots of data is read and written randomly at speed, but SATA drives are much cheaper and perform well for sequential reads, making them more cost effective for storage hungry and read heavy tasks.
Please visit the following website for the full article:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=106184
for further information including DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal or see Lan 1's Interactive Pricelist (IPL). Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
Not For Resale (NFR) program for Iomega partners!
Get your hands onto an Iomega NAS 150d or 200rL NAS for internal and demonstration purposes under our Not For Resale (NFR) offer that is Valid until May 30th 2008 or until stocks sell out.
For DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal and see IP Storage Promotions page . Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
Introducing the FortiGate-310B - New sales tools available here!!
Lan 1 and Fortinet are thrilled to introduce the new FortiGate-310B -- a new medium enterprise-class FortiGate with FortiASIC hardware acceleration for firewall/VPN.
Ideal for organizations with 500-2500 users, the FortiGate-310B offers ten 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces, allowing it to be deployed as both a gateway and a LAN segmentation device. Mid-size enterprises and secondary education customers will benefit from the fact that eight of the ten interfaces are accelerated by the FortiASIC network processor, a first for mid-range products. This acceleration brings wire speed firewall throughput of 8 Gbps and IPSec VPN throughput of 6 Gbps. Intrusion prevention and antivirus throughput are accelerated via the FortiASIC content processor, found in all FortiGate models, and optional Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) expansion options allow for an additional 4 Gigabit SFP-based Ethernet ports or local HDD capacity for log storage.
The FortiGate-310B's increased firewall/VPN throughput and high port density relieves small and medium sized businesses of the restraints that have historically prevented internal network security segmentation.
Competitive Advantages:
- Six times greater firewall/VPN throughput than any other product in its class!
- Optional AMC expansion capability (4 x NP accelerated SFP ports or HDD for local log and content archive)
- Highest port density of any product in its class
- Best price/performance ratio of any product in its class
- Lowest price per port of any product in its class
- Backed by in-house FortiGuard Service Subscriptions
The FortiGate-310B will be officially introduced on Wednesday, April 2nd, and will begin shipping in May 2008. For pricing and SKU information, reference the Q2 Price List, scheduled to be released on April 16, 2008.
Sales Tools:
for further information including DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal or see Lan 1's Interactive Pricelist (IPL). Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
SonicWALL smashes speed records
Last month, SonicWALL rolled out its next-generation unified threat management firewall appliance geared for the enterprise. In exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500 carried out by NetworkWorld.com, results show that SonicWALL has, indeed, crashed through the speed barrier.
This box offers 1.3Gbps of UTM performance, which is nearly triple the speed of the fastest product in our comparative UTM test last November.
See the full review
Welcome to the new world of surveillance
Axis new generation network video products with support for H.264 video compression
On April 2nd, Axis announced the introduction of a new generation network video products, supporting the H.264 video compression standard. The new generation products allow for improved image quality, simplified deployment and management of large-scale surveillance systems and better cost-efficiency. The first products of the new generation include AXIS P3301, AXIS P3301-V, AXIS Q7401, AXIS Q7406, AXIS Q7900 and AXIS Camera Station 3.0.
Find out how you can benefit from Axis new generation products
for further information including DLR pricing please login to the Lan 1 reseller portal or see Lan 1's Interactive Pricelist (IPL). Alternately you can talk to your Lan 1 Account Manager or register as a Lan 1 reseller.
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