Private networks

Complementary to our Managed IPVPN and internet VPN solutions, private networks are built using dedicated leased line and/or Ethernet circuits to connect sites to each other, with no intervening “cloud”.

Ideal if…

• Up to 6 of your offices are close together and need high levels of reliability and capacity.
• You need a high degree of control over performance and protocol support.
• You need to minimise potential transmission delays between sites.

Secure: permanent, private communication between larger offices or data centres.

Robust: private point-to-point WAN connections deliver reliable, dedicated site-to-site bandwidth.

Choice: a range of bandwidth options (up to 10Gbps).

Cost effective: an ideal choice for short distances. Although they lack some of the management services associated with the latest Managed IPVPN networks, private networks are still a highly effective way of getting large amounts of data, voice and/or video traffic between sites securely and reliably.

Here are typical examples of how a private network can benefit businesses:

1. A retailer needed to improve their disaster recovery plans. They built a server with software that replicated their business database and hosted it in a disaster recovery facility some distance from their head office. They then deployed a high capacity private network between the head office and the disaster recovery site for real time synchronisation traffic. Even if the head office is unavailable - through fire, flood or other catastrophes - the data held in the disaster recovery site is safe and they can rebuild their business.

2. An estate agent has five branches in one town and needs to share high volumes of data; particularly demonstration videos and high quality images of properties. A private network is a surprisingly low cost alternative to an Managed IPVPN network, with advantages in performance, reliability and scalability.

3. An insurance company has run out of space in its head office and is expanding rapidly. They acquire a new office building in the same town and to connect the two buildings together with their data centre in a high capacity private network. The two local area networks appear to be a single one to users, improving productivity and communications immeasurably, as well as reducing the need to duplicate IT functions.