Nextra UK is a business communication services provider. With an integrated IT and Internet service offering Nextra is ideally placed to meet the needs of businesses within a convergent technology world. Its focus is to deliver business benefits through technology, addressing the operational pressures faced by customers such as cost reduction and time to market.

Services include hosting, content management, streaming, virtual private networks (VPNs), connectivity and messaging. But Nextra UK is about much more than just communications infrastructure. It also provides application service provision, secure hosting and IT management services, all delivered in consultation with our Commercial Consultancy Group to ensure the technology solution meets your business needs.

In an increasingly competitive world, a company's success depends on close collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers. They need to exchange information and ideas quickly and effectively to stay ahead. However, communications and IT technologies are changing fast. Voice and data networks are converging, new standards are emerging, and the Internet once considered a separate technology is now an integral part of the IT infrastructure of every business. Successful companies harness the new capabilities of that technology, but keeping up with the pace of technology can be a strain on a companies resources.

Little wonder then that the trend towards outsourcing continues to grow. Businesses recognise the benefit of working with a partner that provides both the infrastructure and expertise to enable them to move their business forward. Outsourcing to a specialist provider means more effective financial management of technology costs and provides companies with the flexibility to scale, up or down, as the business requirements change. It enables companies to access an infrastructure and a wider skill set that if managed in-house, would be more expensive and require extensive resources to support and manage. Organisations of all shapes and sizes have taken the first steps towards e-business and e-commerce by web-enabling internal and customer-facing processes. Now they're seeking a return on that investment by fully integrating back-end IT systems with new Internet-based services.

As one of Europe's best-established business communication service providers, Nextra delivers infrastructure that enables this business collaboration. This leading-edge infrastructure includes Nextbone, Nextra's own network and data centers across Europe, including ServerBankTM, Europe's most secure hosting center. Nextra customers benefit not just from this infrastructure but from the spectrum of in-house expertise and support available to them, from network engineers to Oracle database mangers.

Nextra has more than 1000 people working in a network of regional offices across the UK. It built its UK operations through the acquisition and integration of IT services group Norsk-Data, Internet hosting specialist XTML and Internet business solutions company CIX. It has combined their expertise to enable companies to improve and transform key business processes by integrating IT systems and Internet-enabled services.

Part of the Nextra Group, the European communications service provider and owned by Telenor, one of Europe's leading telecommunications companies, Nextra also partners with the 'best of breed' partners including Cisco, Hewlett Packard and Oracle. Working with more than 3000 business customers in the UK, Nextra is helping them to reduce the time, costs and complexity of managing their communications infrastructure.

Communications and IT technologies continue to converge and evolve at speed. Businesses will not stand still. What they need is a business communications partner that provides a unified, reliable communication service - a service that always address the changing demands of any business. Nextra understands the convergent technology world. It means Nextra UK can offer business communication solutions which are leading edge - but simple, cost-effective and low-risk.

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