WAN, LAN & MPLS Services
Benefits of Voice, Data or Video Transmission Services
The traditional WAN (wide area network) can span large geographical areas and link many LANs (local area network) using a variety of different media, transmission methods and protocols. The success of any WAN implementation is to ensure the best options are taken to build a reliable, efficient and secure network. South West Communications Group offer WAN solutions to meet any business needs using today’s technologies.
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) provides an efficient mechanism for engineering network traffic over traditional connections such as ADSL, Leased Lines and LES Circuits for the delivery of Data, Voice or Video. MPLS assigns short identifiers (labels) to the packets, these labels are then looked up in pre-defined indices to forward the traffic through the network. This service combines the flexibility of an any-to-any communication (such as PSTN or Internet) with the reliability, quality and security delivered via a private circuit. offer MPLS solutions over all available transmission types and bandwidths to meet your business and network needs.
VPN
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a network that is constructed using the public network carriers to connect systems. An example of this is the connection of remote LAN’s using the Internet to transport data between them. VPN’s need to ensure the security of the data over the public media and will use encryption and other methods to ensure authorised users can access the network. The actual connection to the Internet needs to be of sufficient bandwidth to support the inter-network connection. South West Communications Group can offer an economical and efficient connection via our ADSL Max service portfolio.
Leased Lines
Leased Lines use permanent point-to-point connections that are always active. This service is provided by the telecommunications carrier to supply reliable, secure and efficient connections between geographically distant offices for voice and/or data. The cost of this service can in many cases be prohibitive with a monthly fixed rate based on distance and the speed of the circuit. This service is however uncontested and the quality of the service is assured.
Failover
Failover is a backup operation that automatically switches the service (hardware or software) to a standby. This operation is used in a hardware environment and within the transport media. A resilient network should incorporate redundancy to ensure continuity of service. This could take the form of a backup ISDN2 line should the WAN connection fail (whereby the network will automatically detect a WAN outage and re-route the network traffic via the ISDN link). Within a server farm (such as South West Communications Group’s Data Centre) it is common to install a redundant server that carries all the current mission critical applications that can be switched over should the prime server fail.
South West Communications Group will endeavor to build in failover in all WAN solutions provided (dependent on customer budget). Failover is automatic and operationally transparent to the customer. storeiP offers an effective element of the resilient solution with automatic backup and ease of service restoration (further details of storeiP are available upon request).