Dudley Rees

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About Dudley Rees

Co-Director of Chelsea Connected Ltd with Magdalen Rees since April 2010. Co-Director of Viridian Communications Ltd, trading as "Gigabeam" Rural Broadband in Hampshire, UK. Chair of Governors at St Faith's Primary School, Winchester. Keen cyclist and generally getting outdoors, preferably when it's not raining. Taxi driver to two girls who are working on their swimming, ballet and riding. Live in St Cross, Winchester, UK. Degree (2:1) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Cardiff University. Split my week between IT / AV installation, maintenance, responding to IT trends and growing the Gigabeam rural broadband network. Businesses - Server deployment (HP Partner), Cloud services from Office 365 and G-suite, Multi-cell Wifi and wired networks (ZyXEL Silver Partner), Internet and telephone systems (IDNet and Firstcom Europe Gold reseller deploying both on-premise and cloud VoIP phone systems). Enjoy troubleshooting troublesome networks. Residential - Multi-room audio and TV systems, Control System specialist, winning URC's best international (outside US) installation award 2019, wide-area WiFi (ZyXEL / Mikrotik) and challenging internet deployments, including fibre broadband and leased lines. CCTV with mobile device apps for remote viewing (Dahua). Growing Wide Area Networks, expert knowledge of Mikrotik networking including IP addressing, VLANs, OSPF and BGP. Deploying Wireless radios from Ubiquity, Mikrotik, Cambium, Siklu and SAF. Happy to get hands dirty, both programming and implementing working solutions Pleased to hear from other technology-driven businesses to white-label my work and help with defining and implementing IT networks, cloud services and audio-visual projects.