Established in 1971, Memco has its international headquarters in Maidenhead, UK. With a turnover of £20 million a year, Memco is the internationally-renowned market leader in the manufacture of infra-red detectors for lifts. In 1990, the company was bought by Halma plc, a global organisation with a £350 million annual turnover. The group consists of more than 40 companies across the world and specialises in manufacturing and marketing of health and industrial safety products for hazard detection and life protection, including the Elevator Division, of which Memco is part. Memco's aim is to continue to be the leading provider of electronic door entrance safety systems and a major supplier of lift emergency telephones. Amongst its customers, it lists some of the world's top landmarks such as the British Library and some of the largest airports, hotels groups, hospitals and even royal residences.

Memco has been an Easynet Connect customer since 2002. The company has evolved and upgraded to higher bandwidth systems as the business has grown. During the last six years, the volume of information transmitted via the Internet has increased 100 fold, with a single branch computer link to four European offices and a new manufacturing plant now linking to sister company offices in New Zealand, Shanghai and Singapore.

From its HQ in the UK - serving some 120 employees - Memco needed to upgrade its IT system to ensure a faster and higher level of Internet connectivity so that it could communicate more quickly and effectively across its multiple sites. These include sales offices in Italy, Spain, France and Germany.

In addition, Memco needed guaranteed, reliable communication with its new 4,000 square metre Central European manufacturing plant in the Czech Republic which opened in 2008. It turned to Easynet Connect's dedicated, copper-based Ethernet service, EtherStream(tm). This provides a high level of security and reliability to transmit critical volumes of traffic between sites such as the new manufacturing plant. Also, EtherStream(tm) supports a constant flow of information including order documentation, drawings, job sheets, not to mention email, VoIP telephony and video conferencing.