Infrastructure Technology Companies & Organisations

Companies and organisations involved in infrastructure technology including cabling, DSL, fibre, Network attached storage (NAS), flash drives and other technologies which have an underlying effect on the how the internet performs.

1U-Servers.co.uk

Server hardware arm of Captec the Southampton based embedded PC and industrial computer systems manufacturer, offering high spec professional servers at prices well below the big brand name manufacturers.

Barclaycard Business

In 1966 a separate business unit was established by Barclays Bank plc and entered the payments market by signing up 30,000 retailers for the launch of Barclaycard. The service enabled business customers to accept and process credit, debit and charge card transactions.

In 1969, another business unit was established, to develop and provide card-based financial services to corporate clients, allowing simple, cost-effective management of general business expenditure and releasing staff from expenses paperwork.

These two business units have now merged to become Barclaycard Business, VISA's largest European commercial card issuer, providing processing services for over a third of UK retailers in 2003.

BCS

The British Computer Society (BCS) is the industry body for IT professionals, and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology (IT). With members in over 100 countries around the world, the BCS is the leading professional and learned Society in the field of computers and information systems.

BT

BT is one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services. Its principal activities include local, national and international telecommunications services, broadband and internet products and services, and IT solutions. In the UK, BT serves over 20 million business and residential customers with more than 29 million exchange lines, as well as providing network services to other licensed operators.

• BT consists principally of three lines of business:BT Retail, serving businesses and residential customers and including BT Openworld, one of the UK's leading ISPs.

•BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK, including ADSL, conveyance, transit, bulk delivery of private circuits, frame relay and ISDN connections.

•BT Global Services, BT's managed services and solutions provider, serving multi-site organisations worldwide. Its core target market is the top 10,000 global multi-site organisations with European operations.

Wanadoo

French ISP, with a significant UK marketshare following its takeover of Freeserve. Offers dial-up, broadband and a portal with search facilities