Why a COLT IP VPN?

With the growing mobility of workers, the number of sites that WANs need to cover is ever increasing. And with it the pressures on them.

They need to be faster. They need to be more secure. And they need to be able to connect all sites easily and efficiently.

Why use an IP VPN?

To begin with, you need to know whether an IP VPN is for you. The reasons companies choose to use this system can vary greatly and depend on their needs as a business. These include:

• Reducing costs by replacing more expensive legacy or point-to-point connections to connect sites
• Rationalising networks where multiple network types are used due to organic growth or mergers and acquisitions
• Helping a company to converge their voice and data onto one network
• Enabling remote users to have cost effective and secure access and support

Benefits of IP VPN

There are many motivations for using an IP VPN. Overall, it enables you to have better management of your network and systems; greater agility in the marketplace from an IT perspective; better network and IT performance; better security; and be less vulnerable to network failures. Of course, there are many benefits to each of these points and we have gone into further detail below.

Better management

• You won’t have the cost and hassle of designing, deploying and maintaining a private WAN
• You’ll be able to focus on your business, while COLT manages your network
• You won’t have to purchase private network WAN equipment
• There will be less staff training requirements and operational costs
• You’ll be able to scale to as many sites and users as needed
• COLT will manage the network and will provide you with a 24x7x365 helpdesk offering comprehensive support

More agility

• Your IT will be able to respond rapidly to changes in business such as mergers, relocation or cost rationalisation
• You’ll be able to enjoy faster provisioning to connect new sites, new users and new applications
• The IP VPN supports a wide range of access speeds (64Kbps to 1Gbps) and methods. This means a cost-effective option can be found for connecting any type of site

Higher performance

• Your business applications will run more efficiently and in doing so, enable you to better meet your customers’ needs
• Your workforce productivity will increase through better internal communication
• You’ll be able to have closer ties with your partners and suppliers, and increase supply chain efficiencies
• You’ll be able to lower your communications costs through a more efficient solution for teleworkers and travelling users

Tighter security

• Your data will be more secure and will meet compliance regulations
• You’ll be able to enforce your own private security policy in order to administrate which users can access which portions of the network
• MPLS gives you the same level of security as Frame and ATM networks through using MPLS labels in the backbone network
• You’ll be able to further encrypt traffic with IP Sec to ensure it can’t be read by anyone except who it’s intended for
• Your corporate brand will be protected by avoiding bad publicity for loss of data

Greater resilience

• You will have less network failures. This means you can reduce the risk of having key parts of your business out of action which could negatively impact your customer relationships
• You’ll be able to have resilience options for access circuits including:
  • DSL backup
  • ISDN backup
  • Dual fibre entry into your building
  • Dual access

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