Northern Flags
A City Fibre leased line provided speed, quality, reliability and agility to meet customer demand.
Northern Flags Case Study
Northern Flags are the UK’s leading wide format fabric printer for products such as flags, banners, barrier jackets, exhibition print, and display boards.
They have a state-of-the-art factory in Leeds but also have sister companies for specialised products and extra-large shipments around the world, so communication and internet accessibility have become critical components of their IT infrastructure.
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“This kind of technology is an enabler for businesses, the performance and reliability are second to none. Now businesses can do more in the time they have, safe in the knowledge that their internet access won’t let them down. They can also compete more effectively by introducing new ways to work and keep pace with the digital world, assured that their point of access has guaranteed uptime. Our relationship with City Fibre has been revolutionary, we can now bring this fibre technology to the door of more businesses, because it’s so affordable.”
Neil Hutchinson – Business Development Director
Northern Flags’ Challenges
A critical component to achieving this was their internet access and they had been ‘making do’ with the same connection they had at their previous site. Since investing in modern manufacturing equipment, networking and telephony issues were becoming more and more frequent and difficult to manage:
- Very slow and unreliable speeds
- Unpredictable and unable to cope with the demand
- Unreliable access to key cloud-based services such as VoIP
- Interruption of business processes
- A frustrated and less productive workforce
The Solution
As Northern Flags’ business is reliant on speed, quality, reliability and agility to meet customer demand, a City Fibre leased line provided by Everything Voice was the perfect solution.
The new internet connection installed for Northern Flags offered Gigabit-capable internet speeds and guaranteed resilience and uptimes. The volume of traffic that the leased line provided meant there was plenty of bandwidth for connected machinery as well as all of the administrative functions necessary for the day-to-day operation of the business.
Following a smooth installation process, manged by Everything Voice, Northern Flags noticed an immediate improvement and never looked back.