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If you want to realise the benefits outlined here and make new ways of working a reality, powerful data services are a must. If your business is going to successfully build its operational model around cloud services and applications, it needs the connectivity to support that.

To ensure you choose the right data services for your business, the types of cloud applications being used should be considered. For example, are you planning to have capabilities such as voice delivered over the internet? Poor quality connectivity used for VoIP can result in low call quality or even call loss. When a customer is contacting your business, this could be the difference between a profitable sale and harmful lost revenue.

The same goes for cloud-based business applications or data storage. Throttled connections to a cloud CRM system
could lead to failure in processing customer orders. While an inability to access business data stored in the cloud could bring an entire organisation to a standstill. Having the right connectivity solution that suits the needs of your business is crucial.

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What is CPR?

CPR stands for construction products regulation, denoting a new mandatory European language to express the performance of construction products in the face of fire, ultimately categorising products into performance classes.

When will this happen?

The “co-existence” period began on 1st June 2016 and operated for 12 months. From 1st July 2017, cables that are within scope and placed onto the EU market must meet CPR requirements. Products in the market prior to 1st July 2017 and not CE-marked can be sold and installed without breaching CPR, however anything placed in the market after this date must adhere to the regulation.

Why the update?

Every year, many people die or are seriously injured as a result of building fires across the European Union. In 2015/16 in the UK alone, 17% of building fires were caused by structures and fittings within a building. Proportionally, 10% of casualties and 4% of deaths were caused by fire as a result of structures and fittings, hence the importance of ensuring that all permanently installed cables are regulated to be as safe as possible to protect lives. Ultimately the objective of CPR is to improve building safety by creating a common set of performance characteristics at national level to ensure everyone in the supply chain complies with the same set of standards. CPR is key for saving lives, helping to provide a safer environment by creating a maximum time-frames for people to evacuate a building in the event of a fire.

Which products are affected?

Any cable which is deemed to be permanent once installed is within the scope of CPR, covering power, data and communication cables. In the case of data and communications cables, copper, fibre, coax, and multi-conductor cables are covered, with the exception of patch leads.

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Today’s business climate calls for reliability, agility and flexibility. In order to deliver on these core goals, the tools companies need to communicate to their customers and the wider world must be future ready and fit for purpose.

However, that is not always the case. Many companies are still relying on traditional Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) technology for their business communications, most of which are now becoming obsolete in business environment where terms of interaction are dictated by increasingly demanding customers.

In this eGuide, we explore how the telecommunications landscape is changing, why businesses are moving
and what the map to change looks like. We also see how one business revolutionised their communications
by moving from a traditional ISDN based solution to Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) trunking.

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