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    Advanced CNS and award-winning high-density Wi-Fi delivering an outstanding experience for 23,500 music lovers.
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    Battersea Power Station is a 42 acre mixed-use development which is home to shops, bars, restaurants, hotels and luxury apartments, leisure and entertainment venues, parks and historical spaces.
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  - The Ideal Academy – your career, your way
    At Ideal, we always look to employ ambitious people. To keep them happy, we therefore have to ensure that each person has a pathway that enables them to learn and progress in a way that suits them. That’s what the Ideal Academy is all about.
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- - From Shadow AI to Prompt Injection and Model Poisoning: The New Threat Landscape for AI-Enabled Enterprises
    When Your Custom AI Becomes the Attack Vector – Why Building Secure-by-Design Matters Just as Much as Speed to Market. Enterprises across every sector are rushing to build custom AI capabilities; from internal chatbots and AI agents that streamline operations to customer-facing agents that transform service delivery. Yet whilst organisations focus on capturing AI’s transformative potential, many are inadvertently expanding their attack surface and introducing risks that didn’t exist just months ago.
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- - Managing a Smart Building: A Modern Approach to Networked Environments
    Smart Buildings are no longer futuristic concepts—they’re living, evolving ecosystems. Managing the underlying networks that power them, particularly a Converged Network System (CNS), requires a new mindset.
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  - The Ideal Academy – your career, your way
    At Ideal, we always look to employ ambitious people. To keep them happy, we therefore have to ensure that each person has a pathway that enables them to learn and progress in a way that suits them. That’s what the Ideal Academy is all about.
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- - Apprenticeships. Rhys proves age doesn’t matter
    Rhys Sheridan is approaching the end of his apprenticeship with Ideal, aged 34. He says apprenticeships are for everyone.
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- - Codebar and International Women’s Day
    We were delighted to host another codebar event at Ideal this week, supporting the charity that runs free programming workshops for minority groups in tech.
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For over 15 years ago, Ideal’s success has been built on taking time to deeply understand customers' business challenges, investing in the best technical experts and implementing solutions to the very highest standards.

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Smart Buildings

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Future-Proofed Workplaces

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Procurement and maintenance services to deliver best-value technology with maximum availability.

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