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Next Generation Network

This sea change in technology and collaboration began with the arrival of e-mail but has rapidly expanded to include instant messaging, video conferencing, IP telephony, Customer Relationship Management and a plethora of new services hosted on company networks and also delivered as a service hosted on the Internet.

These advancements mean businesses are using the Internet and technology unlike ever before placing huge demands on their own networks and the Internet itself with many experts predicting the Internet will be 4 times larger in as many years!

These new collaboration tools offer great potential for efficiency and performance improvements yet networks are struggling to cope with the explosion in bandwidth. Coupled with the fact that these collaboration tools demand quick response times and are sensitive to delay it can lead to a poor user experience that neutralises or even eliminates the benefits of the new application.

Next Generation Networking

A Next Generation Network is ‘application aware’ and is designed to recognise specified applications and treat these differently. This means that it is not only capable of carrying a wide range of information and services, from simple email through to real time voice or video applications, but it also allows you to exert more control over your network resources ensuring that business critical applications receive priority.

Our IP VPN private network solution is a Next Generation Network that provides multi-site customers with a secure platform to share information and applications between offices and remote workers. All traffic is sent over our own network without traversing the Internet allowing our support teams to assign priorities using Quality of Service (QoS) to guarantee performance of real-time and business critical applications.

This Next Generation Network enables the convergence of Voice, Video and data networks into one multi-service network that is easier to manage and cheaper to run. It will also provide you with the confidence to deploy new applications safe in the knowledge that your Wide Area Network will be specifically designed to support the service.

Next Generation Networking in action

Founded over 30 years ago Rethink are the leading national mental health membership charity, working to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life. Rethink approached Zen to discuss upgrading their network and had a specific requirement for Video conferencing as they were keen to improve productivity and also reduce travel costs between their 7 main offices. They were also keen to have a positive impact on the environment.

Our pre-sales consultants worked closely with Rethink to design an IP VPN solution ensuring their requirements for Video Conferencing were captured. Along with the upgrading of Connectivity and deployment of their IP VPN our support teams also determined and implemented QoS at their specified sites and across our network.

Rethink’s Video conferencing solution is now in full operation and the application simply works regardless of how busy the network is. Their multi-service QoS enabled IP VPN ensures that video traffic receives priority delivering a reliable performance whenever it is used. This new platform and the guarantee of Video traffic has helped Rethink save £100,000 in travel and accommodation costs in the first year alone.

To find out more about our Next Generation IP VPN solution contact our sales team or visit our website where you can also review the full details of the Rethink solution.

Want to find out more?

For further information on our IP VPN solutions, and to discuss your objectives and network requirements with a member of our Sales team call 0845 058 9000 or fill in the enquiry form.

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