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“From the user's point of view internet and email provision is a faceless service - until it doesn't work. With Houxou you get rapid personal response which is both rare and valuable.”
FD Big Green Door
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Company profile1995 We set up Aviators Network, to give UK pilots a taste of the on-line features then available in the US. We offered free on-line weather to private pilots, written by Tom Dawes-Gamble. We were one of the first internet service providers, and had the distinction of writing the first dial-up software on a disk, that we sent to our customers. 1999 Flyer magazine asked us to setup own branded internet services, from dial-ups to mail, forums, and broadband, which we do to this day. 2000 Again, we were one of the first providers of BT's Broadband. BT installed a central pipe in our Data Centre, in Harbour Exchange, Docklands. 2001 Severn Trent Water - this Utility was expanding into Telecoms, and asked us to offer dial-up, web and mail, and later Broadband to their millions of customers. 2001 Checkmyfile.com, the first on-line company to offer simple credit searches for consumers, hosted their servers with us. Our role as architect and consultant was invaluable in guiding them in the most cost effective way of getting started. 2002 New disaster recovery data centre comes on stream. 2005 We grew out of our current space in Harbour Exchange, set up a new datacenter in the Docklands, within sight of the Dome. Backbone connectivity is now provided by Pipex, Thus and Datahop, so that we are multihomed. Disaster recovery is guaranteed with two physical and network locations. 2006 Approached by Garlik, for hardware, hosting, architecture, database admin, and applications. 2007 Deployed in house search engine, along Google lines to enable our customers to incorporate web-scale searches into their own applications. 2007 Growing out of our office in Watford, we moved to Kings Langley, which has the advantage of access both from the M25, M1 and M10, and Rail. 2008 Rolled out the infrastructure to support of Garlik's Qdos platform, the worlds first semantically people database. Houxou has deployed a brand new secure infrastructure, to support the growing demand for VPN and leased line connectivity, as our customer's continue to outgrow Broadband service levels. |
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