About Case Communications

OUR HISTORY

Case is a company with a fine pedigree. We started life in the 1970s near Watford in England as Computer and Systems Engineering. The business grew dramatically in the early 1980s after we brought our world famous DCX networking statistical multiplexer to market.

DCX was one of the first products to provide advanced networking features such as, user switching, load balancing, automatic re-routing and a series of gateways to provide conversion from one protocol to other protocols.

Case went on to be Europe's largest manufacturer of LAN products and one of the world's most successful communications firms, opening offices world wide, and producing state of the art technology.

In 1988 Case was purchased by the Dowty group and we became Dowty-Case.

We were the sixth largest communications company in the world and the largest manufacturer of local area networking equipment within Europe. We pioneered some of today's leading technologies, and sat on multiple standards bodies.

In 1993 Cray Electronics purchased Case and the company became known as Cray. In 1997 Cray sold its UK division to Cable & Wireless and its LAN division to Intel.

In 2000 the successful and innovative WAN division returned to its original name of Case Communications and today continues providing innovative solutions, through development and partnerships.

INTO THE 21st CENTURY

While we still support most of the original Case products, we have a firm focus on solutions that will take us through the 21st century.

We develop advanced high-performance building-blocks, using industry standard hardware where possible (and developing our own hardware where none exists) and 'open source' software. This allows us to bring products to market very quickly, with very high levels of functionality and gives our customers the benefits of high-performance products at very competitive prices.

Industrial-grade products

Following our return to Case Communications we have focused on 'first/last mile' technology specialising in industrial-grade communications products designed to work reliably in harsh environments. Typically these products are fan-less routers and Ethernet switches designed to operate from -40°C to +75°C and for use in locations such as beside the highways, railways , oil and gas pipelines, within vehicles and in generally hostile locations.

Blue chip customers

We have consistently worked with Blue Chip customers over the past 30 plus years and we also form an essential part of other organisations’ solutions.

Our key markets

• Oil and Gas
• Railways
• Highways
• Utilities
• Transport
• Defence
• Police
• Local Government

Case Communications' strategy

• Develop products aimed at in first/last mile access markets
• Special focus on industrial/rugged equipment for use in harsh environments
• Products tailored to customers' requirements
• Key technologies: rugged products utilising DSL – 3G – EFM – fibre – wireless

Our services

These include:

• Circuit provisioning
• Local Loop unbundling
• Product customisation
• Field service
• Base repair
• Post-sales support

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