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City Centre WiFi

Mark Lowe Strategic Director

24th February 2016

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Brief IntroductionLong History - 30 successful years in business13m Revenue95 employees UK Wide LocationsPinacl hold the Silver Investors in People (IIP) Accreditation Our mantra : Big enough to deliver, small enough to careThis makes us Flexible, Dynamic and Agile, whilst retaining best practises:British Standards commitment, ISO9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001Prince II project methodologyITIL Service Desk and NOC 24x7Enterprise wireless specialists for 20 years with multi vendor experience:Ruckus, Cisco, Meraki, Xirrus, HP, Meru, ArubaStrategic alignment to Ruckus and Cisco (& Meraki)Certification and accreditationsNetwork specialists Cisco, HPUnderstanding of networking critical in any wireless deployment:Design, troubleshooting, ongoing operationSecurity specialists for all public sector compliance

Public WiFi

York The WiFi City

Commercial WiFi & Pinacl?We have already deployed two:City of York CouncilNewport City Council Another is being agreed for a pilot:Aberdeen City CouncilPinacls learning curveHow easy to generate revenues wrongWhere to generate revenues wrongMarketing commitment, Council involvement keyOur goalsSustainable and ethicalSolutions need to first pay for themselvesMake a modest profitProfit shareThe Pinacl Alliance PartnersMarketing agencies, Digital Advertising, Small Cell SolutionsWe will only provide mutual commitment contracts

CityConnect WiFi PortalHigh Availability, Resilient & Scalable SolutionAmazon Cloud Ease of User AccessUser Login options:- Social media, manual formSecurity & Content FilteringUser Authentication/loggingComply with legislationPurple WiFi, members of IWFFriendly WiFi certification (RDI Online)Commercial Options SponsorshipAdvertisingTarget marketing

Commercial WiFi

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