Hermes News and Events

Hermes Development Manager moves to Kazakhstan


July 2010

Hermes is delighted to announce that Adam Torry, Sales Development Manager, is moving to Kazakhstan on a permanent basis.



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Petronas/Hermes Technical Project Meeting

July 2010

Hermes and Petronas are currently completing a week long session of discussions and planning as part of the Technical Project Meeting held at Hermes House in Shrewsbury, UK.

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Hermes Middle East appoints Project Coordinator

July 2010

Due to growing activity and huge developments for Hermes in the Middle East, including the acquisition of some significant contracts including BP and KBR, Hermes has appointed a Project Coordinator.

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Hermes secures contract for Petronas 'In-house' Service Desks

June 2010

Hermes has secured a contract to provide 'In-house' Service Desks for Petronas in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and Kiyanly, Turkmenistan, on the coast of the Caspian Sea.

 

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Hermes appoints new member to join Sales Development Team

June 2010


Hermes is thrilled to announce that it has appointed Jamie Carter to join the Sales Development Team.

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Hermes installs VSAT systems for Rig 257 Exxon Contract

June 2010

Hermes has just completed the installation of 2 VSAT systems on Rig 257 in the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan for Exxon Mobil.

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Algeria conference hailed a success

June 2010


Hermes Algeria team attended the Icosnet Conference held in Hassi Messaoud on Wednesday 6th June 2010.


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Hermes wins contract to provide Aker with comms upgrade

June 2010


Hermes has won a contract to provide Aker Solutions with an upgrade for their offices based in Atyrau.


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Ethernet

Definition:

A point-to-point ethernet bridge connecting two sites across dedicated fixed bandwidth.

Provision:

Hermes provides dedicated bandwidth between the two customer sites using fibre, satellite or a combination of the two. At each site Hermes provides a managed network termination device which presents an ethernet port. The two ethernet ports are configured to act as a bridge. Service attributes are configurable as required.

 

Features:

Speed/Bandwidth

Ethernet can be provided at any speed, however typical bandwidths are around 2Mbps - 10Mbps. Exact bandwidth is subject to circuit design and in particular fibre last mile capacity

Interface

RJ45 bridge

VLAN

VLAN support available if required

Service Level Agreement:

 

            Latency

One way frame delay -  subject to physical design

            Errors

Frame loss under 0.001% within network

             Jitter

Negligible  within network

            Availability

Normally 99.98% excluding scheduled maintenance and solar outages  minutes/month

Management

All links are fully managed

Redundancy

Can be provided including automatic failover via secondary link or VPN over internet

Acceptance Testing

Tested to RFC2544 end-to-end including throughput and SLA parameters.

Customer protocol-based tests also run at layer 3+ to ensure that service settings are correct.