Specialized Network Services & Solutions

Does your team have the specialized skills needed?

A high performance network is crucial for a great application experience, but complexity and choice is stretching the skillsets of most IT departments.

Core Networking Expertise

We provide network consulting, design and implementation services for complex and critical environments. Through our extensive experience dealing with business critical needs, we apply proven practices to deliver forward-thinking, reliable solutions.

Constraints

"Our business critical application performance is being constrained by the network"

SwitchedLink helps with High Speed/High Density Enterprise and Campus Network solutions that improve application performance across the network.

Branch Offices

"Our business needs to connect branch offices to centralized services and applications, however we've found that the cost to do this is prohibitive."

SwitchedLink wide area network designs can use commodity internet connections to provide secure and fault-tolerant service thereby eliminating the need for costly provider solutions.

WAN Acceleration

"How can our regional branch offices connect reliably to core services when the internet connection quality at the site is limited?"

SwitchedLink applies branch office designs using WAN acceleration that helps applications perform acceptably over low speed connections.

Large Data Transfer

"Our business continuity solution needs to transfer large amounts of data to an offsite system but internet bandwidth is not fast enough."

SwitchedLink can help source and implement specialized high bandwidth/throughput solutions to get block based data over the wire or into the cloud.

Remote Access

"Our staff need to access our systems and work from anywhere, but reliable remote access solutions seem complex and expensive."

Our secure, on-demand remote access solutions make connecting easy, anywhere and anytime from any device.

Extend into Cloud

"How can I meet the ongoing on-demand requirements of the business without over-provisioning and blowing my hardware budget?"

We can assist you in extending your network into Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services adding secure, elastic infrastructure to scale up or down in line with the business demand.

CDN

"Our users and customers are geographically dispersed and have widely varying experiences with our applications based on their location. Is there a way to improve performance so that it is independent of locality?"

Our Application and Content Distribution solutions will ensure that your business applications perform consistently, no matter where the user or customer is located.

Elastic Desktop

"My business works with short term/on-demand contractors whose numbers vary from month to month. How do I provide secure, remote desktop environments for these users without increasing risk to the business?"

Elastic Workforce Resources can be delivered with Cloud Virtual Desktop solutions which connect securely to the core network.

Can your network rapidly adapt to changes in demand?

Core infrastructure often constrains IT departments from instantly delivering fast, flexible solutions to the business. Contingency planning for growth often results in a network with unused capacity or worse, an under-resourced one.

Build an Agile and Elastic Network

Cloud provides both temporary and long term solutions to allow IT to deliver scalable applications and services to the business. Our connectivity solutions make cloud a natural extension of your core network.

Is your network hands-on all of the time?

IT must respond quickly when responding to events or fulfilling requests, yet still remain lean. Automation makes self-service possible and good telemetry helps to identify issues quickly while providing the information needed for the the right reaction.

Add Intelligence and Automation to the Network

We can help build a network that helps itself and the users who depend on it without manual intervention. Self-service is possible without compromising security, processes or standards.

Automation

"We need to automate common, repetitive tasks related to our network but are unsure where to start."

Depending on the type of resource request, there may be many options and solutions, and we can help to explore and implement the best solution.

Self-Healing

"We're finding that some common faults outside of our control are impacting our business, but we struggle to react rapidly enough"

Network intelligence is improving all the time, and we can help construct an automated response for common scenarios that will always address an issue more rapidly than manual intervention.

User Experience

"We need to monitor the network's performance from the user’s perspective in order to see how it and when it impacts productivity."

Understanding network performance from a user perspective is a must when relying on business critical cloud applications and we can help build monitoring solutions to help with this.

NMS

"We need a Network Monitoring Systems (NMS) to watch over and report on network performance metrics that aren't available by default, yet relate directly to our business needs."

Most NMS systems can be customized, but the methods are often less than straightforward and we can help with that.

NOC

"We need a highly visible health summary of the entire network that is easy to read and clearly identifies the problem areas."

NOC style dashboards are a great way to present views of the metrics which matter, and we can help setup and integrate these with the infinite supply of network telemetry data available.

Standards

"Our company is concerned that our decentralized network/hybrid cloud architecture is adding risk to our business."

Most cloud providers have attained third party certification PCI/DSS, ISO 27001 and HIPAA. Our next-gen design can help protect networks in ways not possible with traditional architecture and ensure compliance.

Zero Day Threats

"Our business worries about it's vulnerability to external threats and zero-day attacks"

Network security is evolving rapidly, with many solutions available now to meet and neutralize all of these types of threats.

Reporting

"We need to report on the effectiveness of our network defenses, but we have no metrics."

We can put in place aggregate reporting systems which can collate all data from all enforcement points, and compile into a single report or present on a dashboard.

How exposed is your network to attack?

Decentralizing a network brings a lot of benefits but also adds risk. As the network grows to incorporate cloud services, multiple sites and numerous methods of access, so does it’s attack surface.

Build in Visibility and Self-defense

Security tools can now identify and mitigate real-time threats, and can provide visibility to a depth never seen before. Adding the right tools to a design conforming to industry standards reduces that risk.