Communications is an expansive grouping of a number of technologies used for individuals and businesses to interact. We have detailed below some of the products we believe are base to communications, other technologies such as networking, websites and XML can be found elsewhere on this site under their own respective topics:

Email Messaging Systems

ADT provides a comprehensive range of email messaging solutions from small business and home offices for a few users based on POP3/IMAP/SMTP technologies through to global enterprise solutions and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Exchange server.

Instant Messenger and Chat Systems

Instant Message (IM) applications are common place for personal communication and are now making inroads into corporate environments as security, confidentially and archiving requirements are addressed. IM provides a low cost alternative to voice communications for companies with regional or global collaborating teams.  

Office Telephone PABX Systems

ADT provides a limited range of office telephone systems including Key and PABX products. ADT also supports a number of Lucent/SDX Index platform sites.

Voice Mail, Auto Attendant & IVR

In conjunction with our PABX communication systems ADT provides Voice Mail & Auto Attendant products for company use. ADT also provides customized Interactive Voice Responses (IVR) applications on request.

Virtual Private networks

VPN technologies provide secure low cost alternative means to traditional wide area networks such as X25. VPN is practically suited to remote sites using low-cost broadband internet technologies for the secure transfer of data. ADT provides both hardware and software based VPN solutions for site and head office applications.

Voice over IP (VoIP)

Like VPN the internet or corporate networks now provide a reliable and low cost alternative to public telephone networks for voice communications. VoIP can provide organizations with massive costs savings and better call control.

Call Management Solutions

All business need to keep tabs on their communication costs. ADT provides call management and accounting solutions for small businesses to monitor call costs by users and departments as well as re-charging calls as appropriate.