Business View Caribbean - August/September 2018

52 53 ANTIGUA COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY The 2018 BMW X1 Starting At EC$129,900 Its essence: spontaneity. Its objective: the unknown. The BMW X1 impresses with its bold personality and its unmistakably “X” style is well-suited for the most adventurous of lifestyles. And thanks to BMW TwinPower Turbo technology your BMW X1 xDrive with power through from 0-100km/h in less than 10 seconds. HML Autohaus Old Parham Road St. John’s, Antigua 268-481-2661 THIRST FOR ADVENTURE. THE BMW X1 xDRIVE granted both the license by the government to be an ISP (Internet Service Provider), and were also given a license to operate a VSAT (AVery Small Ap- erture Terminal -a two-way satellite ground station with a dish antenna).This afforded us the opportu- nity to provide more affordable internet in Antigua. “We expanded into wireless internet technology in the days when there was noWi-Fi,”Salomon continues.“A company in Virginia built an antenna product that was used to extend the nowWi-Fi signal to go up to six miles while allowing more speed than the wire technology. ACT was the first in the region to build and provide this high-speed wireless internet technology with coverage of over 70 percent of the island.We had to erect towers, power supplies, back-up power, antennas - we flooded the country with these antennas to deliver the then high-speed access.” Today, ACT has grown into the island’s largest, single source technology provider. “We sell every aspect of technology from the PC to the software, from power to switching, from cabling to inter- net access, from sales to after-sales support. ACT even provides the training that is required to ful- fill this demand,” Salomon says. “We provide anal- ysis, design, sale, installation, and maintenance of all computer technology products and services. For example, we will analyze your drawings of a new building or an existing building, and design the infrastructure for the network cabling, Central UPS, and power distribution.We will design and install a cutting-edge data center while provid- ing you with the cooling and UPS backup power, complemented with the servers, storage, and data security solutions, with a 24/7 support system.We are proud that ACT provides end-to-end solutions.” This year, ACT is launching several new initiatives that have the goal of “bringing our community into the future,” says Andrew Doumith, Salomon’s son who recently joined the firm. The first is cloud services. “The infrastructure is presently in place, and this product should be launched in about eight weeks, where we’ll be offering back-up as a service for business continuity, and a new service to monitor networks,” Salomon reports. “Let’s say there is a company that needs to test its software and they do not have the funding to buy the hard- ware for all of the testing.We’ll be able to leverage our cloud solution - have them pay a small fee for the use of these high-powered HP computers and be able to start up their software and begin testing