Connect your sites and transfer data, voice and video fast.

Looking for a service that will carry voice, video and data on the same network? One that’s secure, flexible and reliable? You’ll be happy to know that our managed IPVPN provides all that, with the superior performance you need for those really high priority applications.

Working closely with industry leader Cisco, our IPVPN service is based on MPLS networks. Put simply, IPVPN with MPLS enables you to prioritise bandwidth for different types of traffic so that low priority traffic won’t get in the way of the important stuff. And it grows to keep pace with your organisation’s demands in a way that no other technology allows - without requiring any additional equipment.

And if you want the freedom of unrestricted bandwidth, take a look at our unique Big Red VPN solution.

Contact us to quote for services to your organisation.

What you get with IPVPN

• Our managed IPVPN is a proven and robust solution that will satisfy even the most demanding customers across their LAN and WAN
• It provides up to eight Quality of Service (QoS) Classes - the UK’s most comprehensive offering - and the ability to change bandwidths without changing billing.
• Our QoS schemes can also cover ADSL access options into IPVPN, which means that latency-sensitive traffic such as VoIP gets a smoother ride.
• Our IPVPN offers you the UK’s widest range of access solutions, giving you more ways of balancing speed and resilience to suit your business.

Supercharge your VPN

IPVPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) with MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) is a cost effective, secure and fully managed network service that allows you to connect your sites, wherever they are. The benefit? By converging voice, data and video traffic onto the same network, with IPVPN you get the security of a VPN but with superior performance.

IPVPN also means that you can improve efficiency and save costs over traditional connectivity methods, such as Leased Lines while being able to support the latest technologies, such as IP Multimedia. Where Leased Lines become progressively more costly as the number of sites and the distance between them increases, by bringing it all together, IPVPN offers the same performance and security for much less.

Make remote working even easier

IPVPN extends your network to distant offices and remote users, saving call charges when dialling into the business.

Choose a bandwidth to suit your business

Easily tailored to your specific business needs with a range of bandwidths, access options and features. Want to introduce new sites, change access bandwidths or move sites? Easy - and without the high costs or delays to be found elsewhere. Contact us to find out more about this.

Flex your bandwidth as your business grows with MPLS

Bandwidths grow hungry. It’s a law of nature. And delivering extra bandwidth and flexibility as it’s needed, with the minimum of fuss, is one of the key strengths of IPVPN with MPLS. Our managed IPVPN solution, created in conjunction with industry leader Cisco, is based on MPLS networks. We were the first in the UK to provide specific prioritised classes of service for voice and video traffic. We’re also proud to be one of Europe’s first companies to launch an MPLS based IPVPN network offering multiple Classes of Service (CoS). This means that our scalable IPVPN enables you to prioritise bandwidth for different types of traffic, so that low priority traffic won’t get in the way of the important stuff.

However you want to connect

We’re sure you’ll agree with us that business has never been so demanding. Happily, IPVPN offers a range of access solutions, ranging from ADSL or 3G, through to ultra high speed Ethernet, and provides options to enhance the resilience of IP connectivity at a site. This, combined with the secure ‘any-to-any’ nature of our MPLS network, makes our managed IPVPN solutions the most reliable and cost effective package for you. There you have it.

Want to know more about IPVPN? To see how you can cut your costs and bring your communications together, get in-touch with us:

• Call us on 0800 953 0180 

• Email us 

• Arrange a callback  

Fast, simple and cost effective 

What you get with IPVPN

Here’s what you get with our IPVPN:

• Online reporting - full online visibility of what’s happening within your IPVPN service, which can be used to manage and scale the network (e.g. QoS or circuit bandwidths) as and when it’s needed.
• Eight classes of service - available on all dedicated Virgin Media Business IPVPN services, which range in speed from 64 kbit/s to 1 Gbit/s.
• Any-to-any networking environment - managing your network is simple, as you don’t have to specify specific end-to-end routes and route bandwidths, as with leased lines or Frame Relay.
• Secure - IPVPN is so secure that it avoids the additional costs and management of firewall devices, a necessity with dial-up or internet VPN.
• Overlapping VPNs - a site can be a member of more than one VPN, which can be safely extended to your customers or suppliers.
• International connectivity - working with international partners, we can also extend your IPVPN service beyond the UK - which means that if you have international sites, they’ll be fully integrated into your IPVPN, including any-to-any networking and QoS.

Get more from your VPN

There’s more:

• Resilience - lots of options including dual or multi-homed connectivity, dial-up ISDN and DSL, which can also be used to offer a cheaper, alternative form of resilience to private circuit back-up.  Contact us for full details.
• Internationalconnectivity - international sites can be connected to send and receive, provided and managed as if from the UK, including QoS.

What it means for you

Music to the ears of Network Managers:

• Simple scalability- it’s so easy to add new sites and change access bandwidths because the ‘hub’ site doesn’t have to be re-engineered. Particularly relevant when moving offices, adding new offices or integrating offices of acquired or merged companies.
• It's all done for you - as there’s no need to purchase private network WAN equipment, the need for staff training and operational overhead costs is minimised, so your people can focus on higher priorities than network management. We take care of the IPVPN service for you, all the way up to your LAN, ensuring maximum up-time and supreme networking performance, including a managed router at your premises.
• Tough SLAs (tough on us, easy on you) - our IPVPN service comes complete with robust service level agreements (SLAs), designated service managers and 24/7 technical support. Our lightning fast response to service failures ensures the fastest fixes. We’ll also provide full project management to ensure your solution is delivered smoothly, on time and on budget.
• Tailored solution - we’ll design your networks to suit your requirements, ensuring maximum efficiency. We’ll also offer advice on how your network should change to meet your future needs.
• Future-proof solution - the service provides a reliable and scalable platform for IP Convergence, enabling businesses to take advantage of lower total cost of communications as well as improved operational and business performance.
• Smooth operator - direct any-to-any routing between sites keeps speeds up and bandwidth costs down, while ensuring that traffic doesn’t get bottlenecked at a hub site. And no one likes that!

Want to know more about IPVPN? To see how you can cut your costs and bring your communications together, get in-touch with us:

• Call us on 0800 953 0180 

• Email us 

• Arrange a callback  

All the help and support you need for your VPN

How IPVPN works

• IPVPN combines the privacy of an ATM and Frame Relay solution with the flexibility and ease of connectivity of IP, plus the ability to support different types of traffic, each with its own performance SLA.
• We can offer ‘hub and spoke’ virtual private networks (VPNs), any-to-any connectivity VPNs and partial-mesh, providing special connectivity between specific sites, as well as overlapping VPNs.
• IPVPN is available nationwide. Connectivity from your site to our network is provided using a combination of Virgin Media Business and BT tail circuits, at speeds up to 1Gb. Traffic is routed via the access circuit, connecting your site to the Virgin Media Business £13bn network.
• The service is terminated by a router on your premises, providing a managed IPVPN service up to your LAN. And the entire service is managed by us to ensure the highest possible uptime and best possible end-to-end performance for your traffic.
• And if you or your network partner wants to handle your router supply, configuration and management, we’re the people to speak to. It’s your call.And if you or your network partner wants to handle your router supply, configuration and management, we’re the people to speak to. It’s your call.

Keep an eye on network performance

We work with you to define the reporting that you require and have developed customer-friendly templates to support this. Reporting on IPVPN and National Ethernet service and network performance is available through a dedicated web portal provided by Infovista. This helps us to monitor your network performance and to verify it against your service level agreement.

How you'll connect your sites

• Over 60 geographically dispersed IPVPN nodes providing nationwide coverage that shortens tail circuits and gives fewer single points of failure, all supporting multiple Classes of Service (CoS).
• We provide an end-to-end Cisco hardware based solution, utilising our advanced infrastructure design to provide an extremely capable IPVPN solution.
• One link from your site to the Virgin Media Business IPVPN node can be used not only for in-house traffic, but also for the creation of extranets, such as for suppliers, with both streams of traffic remaining separate.
• We provide all aspects of the service, from design through to installation, maintenance, and management during the transition, to a pure IP environment. We can also offer our LAN and converged IP Multimedia services as a seamless extension to your IPVPN.

Help on hand whenever you need it

• We put a great deal of thought into our range of professional services, to make sure that you get the most out of the IPVPN service, from network consultancy and design, installation and proactive management right through to the kind of support you want. We don’t forget you after the installation.
• Our solutions consultants work with you to make doubly sure that we design the service that’s right for your needs - and continues to be fit for purpose as your needs evolve.
• Project Managers ensure that the service is installed to plan, that it meets your needs and that it’s all clearly communicated and smoothly co-ordinated. We pay particular attention to the migration from your existing infrastructure to the new service and will work to ensure that the transition goes smoothly.
• Our 24/7 technical support team work around the clock to maintain the high availability and performance of your IPVPN. We’ll monitor your network’s ‘vital signs’, proactively responding to events that affect availability and performance. We’ll also flag up trends that may warrant changes in the future.

Downloads

• IPVPN datasheet

Want to know more about IPVPN? To see how you can cut your costs and bring your communications together, get in-touch with us:

• Call us on 0800 953 0180 

• Email us 

• Arrange a callback  

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