GWAN, WAN, LAN

The security and performance of the LAN is a critical component in the foundation and support for all business critical IT applications. The proper design and implementation of LAN architecture is therefore integral to the successful utilisation, health and overall integrity of localised technology functions.

Wide Area Networks (WANs) link key metropolitan resources and frequently span multiple geographies, so protecting your company data becomes more complicated than in the LAN environment. IP traffic frequently transitions across multiple physical telecommunications carriers and/or the internet and the number of threats increases exponentially. There is no way of knowing what security measures are in place outside of your network perimeter or across service provider networks so your company data may be vulnerable to attack at multiple points.

Delicate Balance: Supply vs. Performance
Many companies handle Bandwidth with the supply and demand approach- when they need more, they increase the supply. This is a more of a plaster solution and a temporary fix. It fails to address the important issues:

• Do your mission critical applications have adequate Bandwidth to remain functioning at their highest performance levels?
• Is Bandwidth being cost-effectively used?
• Are low priority applications using high levels of Bandwidth; incurring unnecessary costs and affecting the functionality and performance of other more business critical applications?

These are the questions companies should be asking. Like leaking petrol, you can continuously fill up the tank just to keep your car running, or determine where the problem is and fix it.

The health, integrity and performance of your network has a direct impact on the success of your business. Therefore, establishing and maintaining secure, highly performing communications should be a business imperative.

Benefits

• Cost-efficient, Performance Based Utilisation of Bandwidth
• Application Performance Monitoring
• Preventative misuse of Bandwidth for Low Priority Applications
• Business Driven Prioritisation of Applications and IT Objectives
• Integrated Management and Reporting of Quality of Service (QoS) Bands for MPLS Customers

Features

• Wan Applications work through the following 4 communications routes: Head office to branch; Branch to branch; Branch to employee; Client to supplier.
• Technologies Utilised in this process include: MPLS • ATM • xDSL • Frame Relay • Leased Line and LAN Extension • PSTN • ISDN • Wireless •VPN, Firewall, IDS, IPS, Endpoint Security, Authentication, NAC • Orama Managed Services.
• Securing IP Communications: Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, deliver secure IP communications across both private and public networks- allowing remote users and offices to communicate without dedicated circuits. By encrypting data to prevent tampering, VPNs can protect sensitive information as it travels from the security of your network perimeter through public networks and the vast, unpoliced universe of the Internet.
• ITC’s Managed VPNs
  - Designed and managed by industry-leading experts for maximum performance and security.
  - Cost-efficient, removing need for expensive in-house support.
  - ITC 24x7 Network Operation Centre- around the clock security.
  - Continuous protection against new vulnerabilities.
  - Continuous access to your network.
• ITC Technologies Integrated:
  - Ethernet (all types)
  - TCP/IP
  - Bandwidth management
  - Leased Line and LAN Extension
  - Wireless connectivity
  - Routing
  - VPN, Firewall, IDS, IPS, Endpoint Security, Authentication
  - Network Admission Control (NAC )
  - ITC Orama Network Platform
• Single management architecture: minimise cost, mitigate risk and maximise overall performance

Why ITC?

At ITC our expert consultants can cost-effectively deploy, manage and monitor VPN's to help safeguard your company’s sensitive information whilst it transverses public networks. The ITC Network Management Platform, Orama integrates VPN management as part of our security solution. A secure VPN in concert with effective firewall management and 24/7 monitoring allows your company to benefit from these cost effective technologies whilst mitigating the inherent risks involved.

At ITC our expert consultants have a proven track record in designing, installing, and securely managing LANs for companies of all sizes and across all business sectors. Using only the latest, best of breed technologies, our consultants will build or re-engineer your network infrastructure. We will work with you to design a secure, resilient, scalable LAN solution that suits the specific needs of your business- whilst mitigating the risk associated with shared access and application implementation.

Our expert consultants will design a security plan that incorporates the appropriate proactive preventive measures. We will work with you to customise your LAN ensuring it has the scalability to support all your present and future IT applications- for improved communications, enhanced security and more efficient use of all applications to increase performance and ensure business continuity.

To have a free, no-obligation and confidential discussion please call an ITC LAN expert on 0207 517 3900.

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Orama - ITC’s Performance Management Solution
Our ITC expert consultants will evaluate and monitor your network performance by inspecting bandwidth consumption and application performance in order to assess the efficiency of your network. Disparate topologies, technologies, users and applications require a centralized performance based monitoring system. At ITC we have designed a specialised product, Orama, as part of our managed security platform. Orama allows our consultants and all our customers to concurrently monitor business critical IT information- all in an easily accessible, fully integrated system.