A recent project highlighted our ability to provide a turn key communications solutions for the SME market. As both an ISP and network solutions specialist we were able to deliver the entire solution in-house.
This organisation consisted of a head office and four branch offices. We started by providing a high speed (10MBPS) fibre circuit between their office in Ipswich and our Point of Presence (PoP). We installed a Cisco router and Checkpoint firewall to provide secure management of the main Internet connection. A broadband back-up connection was also implemented at the H.O.
Using Cisco based rate limiting we could control exactly how much bandwidth was on tap. The IT manager was able to select how much bandwidth he required on a monthly basis, thus providing the ultimate flexibility and lowest cost of ownership.
The branch offices were equipped with broadband products combined with Cisco routers. Each branch could be configured to have independent Internet access, or controlled access via the corporate proxy server. Each branch was also equipped with a secure communications channel to
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