The LAN foundation

Taking care of business the intelligent way

Businesses today are hungrier than ever for services to be delivered over their Local Area Network (LAN). And it doesn’t end there. As they expect more in terms of capacity and availability, the challenges for the network’s switches and routers have never been greater. The LAN foundation is the very heart of the network, providing the high speed connectivity between devices, applications and users that’s absolutely vital to increase productivity and ensure competitiveness. So don’t let your business go hungry.

Key features

• We’ve a terrific track record for designing, supplying and supporting LAN Solutions.
• We offer high performance and resilience to ensure that your critical business applications are continuously available.
• We provide integrated services such as security, quality of service and power over Ethernet to support convergence applications.

Operational efficiency & costs

Given the large numbers of switches deployed onto your network, operational efficiency and ease of management are serious concerns. With IT resources at a premium as network requirements grow, the use of intelligent switches can reduce cost and complexity by allowing many time-consuming IT tasks to be performed automatically. Technical personnel at your HQ can centrally manage the network, keeping staffing counts low, while providing a reliable service to your people - wherever they are.

Operational costs can be reduced and storage efficiency improved by integrating services instead of relying on separate technologies. Quality of Service (QoS) can be ensured for a range of new applications, such as wireless, integrated security and IP convergence. An intelligent network provides the framework that enables a wireless LAN solution to take full advantage of the wired infrastructure's resources to address critical wireless LAN security, deployment and control issues. And things don’t get more intelligent than that.

Scalability & convergence

Rigid networks run the risk of restricting both scalability and functionality, blocking your people from getting the most out of bandwidth intensive applications and preventing the rollout of more advanced functionality, such as IP telephony, rich media conferencing and video. Greater access can be provided to advanced applications across extended geographies, while ensuring high availability, minimised downtime and uninterrupted access to information assets. Access can be offered both to your people at different sites and to different devices connecting via wireless and wired connections. The less rigid, the better. 

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The LAN foundation

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Features

Switches

• High availability options.
• Optional enhanced management.
• Auto provisioning of IP Phones.
• Power over Ethernet for IP Phones & WLAN access points.
• Quality of Service (QoS) for convergence applications.
• Scalable solutions from fixed function to chassis based solutions.
• Switches are specified according to their position in the network and the services they need to provide.

Routers

• Embedded security, voice and wireless to reduce capital and operational costs.
• High performance to support demanding networks.
• End-to-end performance and management.
• Scalable solutions to support branch offices to high speed core networks.
• Edge routers can provide a resilient platform for integrated services.

Benefits

• Extensive experience - we’ve a long track record in designing, supplying and supporting LAN solutions, with experience in a range of environments.
• Single solution - the use of a single environment to support voice, data and video for current and future applications reduces the total cost of ownership and enhances return on investment.
• Cisco certified - we’re a certified Cisco Gold partner, proving that we’ve achieved and maintained the highest level of technical capability and support.
• Consolidation - technical staff at HQ can centrally manage the network, keeping staffing counts low while providing reliable service to your people in different locations.
• End to end solutions - our position as both a Wide Area and Local Area service provider allows us to take a true end-to-end view of your network requirement, ensuring that risk is removed when introducing new IP technologies.
• Capital & operational savings - through the deployment of a single voice, data and video network across our LAN, WAN and structured cabling portfolios.
• Managed services - we can either support your own teams or offer managed solutions, depending on your needs.
• Anywhere, anytime - we offer resilient, high performance solutions, ensuring that business applications are continuously available.
• Integrated services - such as security, quality of service and power over Ethernet to support convergence applications.
• Investment protection - enables new applications to be added without costly upgrades and retrospective engineering.

Like we say, we want nothing but the best for you.

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As you’d expect, our solutions are all beautifully backed up by a comprehensive package of professional services: from a detailed audit of your current environment and requirements, design and project managed implementation, to network installation and ongoing support.

Wide Area Application Services

Wide Area Application Services is a comprehensive network optimisation solution that accelerates applications over the WAN, delivers video to the branch office, and provides local hosting of branch office IT services. IT departments can centralise applications and storage in the data centre while maintaining LAN-like application performance, and provide locally hosted IT services while reducing the branch office device footprint. Key features include:

• Application acceleration - Improve productivity of remote employees.
• IT consolidation and WAN optimization - Minimise branch IT costs.
• Branch IT agility - Respond rapidly to changing business needs.
• Simplified data protection: Ease compliance and business continuity.
• Integrated into your network - to ease network operations and management.
• Minimises your ownership costs - by reducing device footprints and complexity.

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The LAN foundation

Security

We’ll ensure that security concerns are built into the heart of the network from the LAN Foundation upwards to access control. Business critical information can be protected while continuing to allow use of the internet for mobility and flexible access.

Security

Wireless & mobility

Whether you’re looking for a pure wireless network or a hybrid environment, one that combines Structured Cabling for the fixed backbone with wireless for flexibility, we’ll tailor solutions to meet your needs.

Wireless & mobility

IPVPN

A cost effective, secure, flexible, scalable and fully managed service capable of carrying voice, video and data traffic: provides the security of a VPN with superior performance for business-critical applications.

IPVPN