Business Telecoms & IT in Farnborough

The strictest requirements we encounter, and the customer sets them rather than us. Segmented networks, monitored firewalls, controlled and reviewed access, and full documentation of configuration. Where a contract names a formal standard we build to that standard rather than to our own view of good practice, and we want sight of it before quoting.

For hospitality and services businesses around it, yes — capacity that flexes for a show week and comes back down afterwards, rather than being sized for an average month. Calls should queue with a message instead of returning engaged tones. For the engineering firms it changes little, beyond everyone being busier than usual.

Segmentation and evidence of it, because aerospace supply chain customers increasingly ask you to demonstrate that production, visitor and finance systems are not on one flat network. That is generally configuration on hardware you already own. What we would not claim is knowledge of aerospace quality or accreditation systems themselves, which are specialist and not ours.