With the end of summer looming, Purdicom wanted to seize the opportunity in having a personalised customer event at our offices in Oxfordshire. This culminated in the first Purdicom Open Day and BBQ.

Purdicom staff arrived bright and early, parking off-site to allow for the high volume of customers that we were looking forward to welcoming later that morning.

At 10am, the office was buzzing and the car park was already full. With each customer receiving an Open Day Purdicom pack, everyone who attended was also given the opportunity to win many prizes on offer via our vendor scratch-card competition.

Throughout the day we were able to provide live demos of products such as BATs, Siklu, Ruckus Wireless, Ceragon, Purple, RG Nets and Cambium Networks/ePMP in our garden area and training facility.

On the day the weather hit a sweltering 27°C, it was a perfect day for a BBQ.

At 12pm, with an extremely lively morning out the way, a large BBQ feeding 80+ people was devoured.

During the event, partners and Purdicom staff were able to walk freely around the premises, engaging and networking with each other and receiving small group and one-on-one conversations with many of our vendors.

We would like to send a big thank you to all Vendors & Partners that attended the Open Day. It was a pleasure to see everyone and we hope you all thoroughly enjoyed your day at the Purdicom offices.

Karen Oosthuizen, Head of Sales & Marketing says;

“The open day at Purdicom was a great success, attracting our vendors and resellers nationwide to network and gain a greater knowledge of what others have to offer in the wireless world. Each and every vendor has given me feedback and said what a GREAT day it was, the resellers and the sales team have all echoed that too. I would like to thank all our Vendors and our partners for attending the event, not forgetting the Purdicom staff for hosting such a spectacular day!”

There will be no doubts about Purdicom hosting another Open Day sometime in the near future. If you would like any information, please do not hesitate to call 0333 1212 100 or email todd.kellond@purdi.com

Vendors on the Day included

Ruckus Wireless – Manufacturer of wireless (Wi-Fi) networking equipment for enterprises and service providers based on smart Wifi-technology.

RGNets – RG Nets is the leading provider of gateways and centralized authentication appliances designed to manage, provision, and protect revenue-generating networks.

Siklu – develops, builds and delivers millimeter wave wireless connectivity radios.

Cambium Networks – offer secure and reliable wireless broadband solutions for customers around the world.

Ceragon – provides high capacity, reliable microwave links.

BNS Brocade Network Subscription – flexible financing plan that enables customers to upgrade their networks today without any upfront capital.

BATs – Delivers industry leading auto-aiming, antenna tracking, stabilized microwave systems and solutions for adaptive wireless networks.

Purple – a cloud-based marketing and analytics WiFi software company

Repeatit – High-quality Point to Point & Multipoint supported by a free cloud ecosystem & next generation management

Flint – specialist wireless installation company

iBoss – provider of innovative Web Security, Mobile Device Management and Threat Defence solutions

Encapto WiFi – WiFi management and user engagement system

We are proud to announce our raffle winners from the Open Day.

Hamper Winners:

1st – Renne Stuart @ Lloyds Business Communications

2nd – Lisa Young @ Panoptech

3rd – Phil Doherty @ Lynx Networks

Whisky Winners – With Compliments of Ceragon

1st – Stuart Wilson @ Rapier Systems

2nd – Marian Kwiecinski @ Marsworth Computering

3rd – Kerry Cox @ Viastak