Any
business with remote resources has to take inter-office communications seriously.
Whatever your size, you need to be sure of reliable communications with your suppliers
and your customers, not to mention your own staff. Making
the right choices means understanding your needs in terms of speed, availability,
security, location and flexibility. RHM works with you to establish the best networking
solutions - anything from dedicated point to point private circuits to Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs). You may be a PLC with a hundred UK sites or a small company
with just three offices and a one-person sales team. Either way we can make sure
the network you have is the network you need.
RHM
Interoffice solutions:
Inter-site connectivity solutions
Private
circuits
MPLS VPNs
Broadband
VPNs
LAN Extension Service
VoIP home
working
Inter-site
connectivity solutions
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RHM's
portfolio of inter-site connectivity solutions have been designed to offer you
maximum choice - giving you the potential to reduce costs while increasing
business
efficiency.
WANs
We work with a number of strategic technology
partners to connect multiple geographically dispersed sites and offices together.
Our network specialists have years of knowledge and experience in designing, implementing
and managing Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions for businesses throughout the UK.
Working with you to evaluate your business's specific needs and provide you with
the requirements to support your new business initiatives. From organising communication
lines (such as leased lines, ISDN and ADSL broadband), to installing routers and
firewalls, RHM are able to provide a complete WAN service.
We
can also set up Virtual Private Network (VPN) links into your systems for authorised
staff to use from home, and with years of experience with both voice and data
we can often help you save money by utilising Voice over IP (VoIP) to make inter-site
phone calls over the existing network, with no call charges.
Private
circuits
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Broadband
and VPNs are strong competition for Private Circuits, but this is still a valuable
alternative for some businesses - it depends on what you need and where your branches
are based.
RHM
Private Line Services allow you to develop more sophisticated connections. We'll
give you the infrastructure needed to create a totally secure private network
with exclusive point-to-point connections between locations. Use your own dedicated
lines to securely and quickly transfer data, voice or video communications. In
particular, Private Circuits offer you:
 | Exclusive
point-to-point connections for maximum security |
| High-performance
and reliability, preventing single point of failure |
| International
connectivity | | Fixed
charges for line rental regardless of usage | | Wide
choice of bandwidth options, offering scalability and flexibility | | Always-on
instant connectivity | Our
network specialists have years of knowledge and experience in designing, implementing
and managing WAN solutions for business throughout the UK. Providing you with
the critical network planning information you need to make the right decisions,
identifying how you can drive efficiencies in your current operating costs, and
re-capitalising those savings using business finance to create an investment budget
with no increase to your operating costs.
VPNs
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Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs) are an excellent choice for national companies that have
a large number of dispersed sites. A
VPN gives you a secure, quality cost effective solution. It lets you manage your
inter-office data communication more effectively and lets you run your data, voice
and video over the same network, and can also be used to implement corporate intranets,
linking remote offices or mobile workers, and extranets, extending the services
to customers, suppliers or other communities of interest.
MPLS
VPNs
An increasing number of businesses now opt for Multiprotocol Label
Switching Virtual Private Networks (MPLS VPNs). Traditional VPN technology have
been associated with scalability problems, many companies now opt for MPLS VPNs
because they are much more scalable as they are based on networks and not connections
- minimising both financial and technical risk; delivering a private and totally
secure network infrastructure without the need for internet connectivity; while
allowing you to ensure high levels of performance by prioritising different types
of traffic over the network. Opening the door to the advanced applications your
business may need now or in the future:
| Rapid
deployment of new applications and new locations |
| Consolidated
applications over a single network | | Secure
and reliable service | | End-to-end,
fully managed service for significant cost savings and lower management overheads | |
Broadband
VPNs
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Broadband
access solutions are rapidly driving VPN deployments. Ideal for business looking
for a cost effective data communications solution, a Public VPN uses broadband
access over the internet - combining the speed of broadband with the availability
and security advantages of a VPN. Providing you with an on-network experience
that equals the performance you would expect if logged into the LAN at your headquarters.
With Broadband VPNs your company will gain big savings and a range of productivity
benefits to give you that competitive edge:
| Cost
reduction in data communication, capital investment and monthly charges |
| Flexibility
to add new networks or remote users without any
major disruption |
| Performance
benefits of higher data transfer rates |
| Savings
on maintenance and support | |
Security
considerations
The inherently open/public nature of broadband VPNs
creates security concerns. RHM will identify the security status of all locations
to ensure the most suitable routing and security solutions are in place to protect
your business from risk
before installation.
LAN
Extension Service
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RHM's
LAN Extension Service provides secure, high-speed, dedicated links running between
your dispersed sites, connecting together LANs at speeds of up to 10Gbps over
distances of up to 25 kilometers. Your information and communications technology
will function as on a single network, allowing you to share applications seamlessly
regardless of location, with data and functionality delivered on any PC just as
though it was coming from a local server.
VoIP
home working
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VoIP
home working from RHM allows telephone extensions to operate from any location
with broadband internet access, and still remain part of the office system. This
provides your remote workers with the same level of convenience, reliability and
functionality they would expect from the office environment. With applications
from leading vendors including Avaya and LG - designed to improve the efficiency
of your remote employees.
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