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We will be exhibiting at the iLinks Innovations Annual Conference & Exhibiton on Wednesday 22nd May at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool. This prestigious event is organised by local Trusts and strategic partners and aims to showcase new and emerging technologies and their potential benefit to the Merseyside Health Economy.

We are pleased to announce that Network Defence will be moving to a new office location at Daresbury Park, Warrington in June this year. This marks the success of hard work, dedication and growth over the years which we are proud to showcase to our customers.

I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about convergence. It strikes me that the networking industry has historically tended towards convergence in lots of areas. I’m old enough to remember token ring (and even arcnet) and ultimately Ethernet won the day. When I started in networking, I needed to bridge and route protocols such as TCP/IP, DECnet, IPX/SPX, SNA and OSLAN to name but a few. Of course TCP/IP is now the standard protocol for all but the most specialised network applications.

Last night was iphone and ipad while watching the football, today I’m in the office so it’s laptop connected to the internal network and iphone. Tomorrow who knows? The way modern executives connect with the office has changed markedly over the last few years as companies embrace new devices and mechanisms for communicating with colleagues, suppliers and customers.

Bolton Wanderers players Tim Ream and Jay Spearing recently visited St Simon and Jude C of E Primary School in Bolton to plant a Norwegian Spruce tree donated by Network Defence.