Network Infrastructure

Your school’s network is a key driver in organisational efficiency.

At Virtue Technologies we understand that the more efficient your network is, the better the educational outcomes for your students will be.

With this in mind we have built a portfolio of flexible network infrastructure solutions that can integrate your existing investment with emerging technologies to create a diverse network that will meet your future needs.

Our portfolio of solutions includes:

Network infrastructure – design and complete installation including switching, VoIP etc.
Structured cabling – CAT6/CAT7, fibre optic and cabinet & rack solutions
Wide area networking – DSL, Bonded DSL, leased line and radio solutions
Managed wireless – Aruba wireless solutions optimising 802.11ax (wifi 6)

Our highly experienced engineers provide a complete design service for all our IP networks, including full schematics. We work with you to ensure you get the best solution for your requirements that are flexible enough for future growth.

Our networks are designed to cope with the most demanding requirements, be easy to deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and proactively manage using industry leading components and offer the flexibility to deal with issues such as wireless access, virtualisation and online resources that are quickly becoming key teaching aids.

Structured cabling

Virtue specialise in the design, installation and management of structured cabling systems for all types of environment from single locations to full-site cabling and roll-out programmes.

Our highly skilled engineers have designed our solutions to meet the existing and future requirements of our customers, including:

CAT6/CAT7
Fibre optic
Cabinet and rack solutions

We provide complete project management for our cabling jobs utilising trained and certified engineers and NECEIC electrical work can be carried out as part of the project.

Wide area networking

Educational establishments that are spread over large or multiple sites can suffer severe network degradation if their Wide Area Network (WAN) is not properly planned and implemented.

This can quickly impact your students as well as your staff and lead to dissatisfaction which may affect your schools reputation.

Virtue offers a range of WAN connectivity solutions that ensure your network maintains optimal performance levels. These include:

Diverse route connection options for resilience
DSL and bonded DSL to ensure secure and rapid data transfer
Leased lines
Radio solutions

All our WAN solutions include a fully managed router and security built in.

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Our Account Managers are here to help. If you know what the problem is, and need someone to help you find the solution, we can offer guidance and advice.

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Bedford High School, North West

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UTC Warrington, North West

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Following issues with their original provider, it became imperative that their IT support move to a provider who could help them navigate their licenses, in a straightforward manner.

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Two Counties Multi-Academy Trust, East Midlands

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Solution Products

Two Counties MAT were a brand new customer to Virtue when we helped them migrate their email and data from on-premise to Office 365, enabling the deployment of a Trust-wide backup policy.

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What our customers say

Some of the nice words our customers say about their experience

Shahzeab was prompt at replying to my query, personable when helping at the printer itself and assured me that he could find a solution. He sent a follow up email and also checked in to see if things were working yet when he passed me in the corridor. Great service!

Dragos is an extremely hard-working, attentive and all-round brilliant support agent. I could not ask for more. Dragos solved our case with high level proficiency, professionality, and was pro-active enough to take the software to his testing lab and test firewall rules for us, as to not interrupt our daily workflow. Virtue Technologies and Dragos, I cannot express my appreciation enough – thank you!

The switch issue is now sorted thanks to Mike’s diligent approach and skill. He provided a first class service.

A breath of fresh air, always very polite and positive, no job too small. Always on it and goes above and beyond every time! Absolutely love Gulfareen!

It was great having Mike onsite on Friday, he was very thorough and also a really pleasant chap to get along with.

As always, with the help of Virtue’s skilled engineers, the issue was tracked down and resolved.
Great work, fantastic Team work, well done.

A huge ‘Thank You’ to the IT Technicians Team. There have been many challenges and they have done a fantastic job of keeping things going. We thank the Technicians for all their hard work.

Gulfareen is quick to solve the MANY technical issues that I have. She always makes sure she provides an excellent service! Thank you, Gulfareen.

For such a young man, Sam presented himself in such a polite and professional manner. His confidence around his knowledge and skillset was second to none, and his conversation was engaging. It was pleasant to come across such a motivated and enthusiastic young character.

I wanted to say thanks to Paul for all the work that he did in terms of the report. I honestly don’t know what would have happened without his input! It is very much appreciated. Many thanks again.

Excellent support from Myles. Above and beyond what I was hoping. Investigated the issues, and implemented the solution and then took time to explain and show me what had been implemented.

Paul setup InTune to save us time and lay the foundations so we have a recommended configuration to build upon, and be able to setup new surface tablets with a cloud first approach. I really enjoyed working with Paul on this and his knowledge and experience in this area was excellent.

I want to let you know that the IT Team you have is great. They have all been really supportive of any request for assistance and nothing is ever too much trouble for them to help with. Thanks

Thank you. I can’t praise Ryan enough, he did everything he could to sort it. Thank you for accommodating the schedule change. Also, thanks to Mike for his value input last week. Two great engineers who do your company proud.
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The quality of the quotes and the process Virtue have for order confirmations (along with the speed at which they are generated) was significantly better than all the other businesses we dealt with. Virtue made it really easy for us.

I just want to let you know that lots of my staff are speaking really positively about the support they’ve received from Virtue.

When spoken to Dragos regarding support related calls he has been helpful, reassuring and been as helpful as possible on every occasion.

Patricia is a great asset to Team Virtue. Her quick responses to any question posed are what customers need and, if she’s not able to answer, she always put us at ease by forwarding our query elsewhere. Requests for quotes are quick and detailed, and it’s great to know there’s a friendly voice/email at the other end if ever we need it.

Virtue Technologies actually understand what goes on in schools, it’s not all about a computer on a desk, it’s about the experience for the students. I think we share that with Virtue.