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Connect Network and firewall for all your sites, run by us.

Connect is the network that ties your sites together – offices, data centres, production plants, fish farms or power stations. The network is divided into zones, and you decide how much redundancy it needs. We design it, set it up and run it.

  • Cisco Partner
  • Check Point Advanced Partner

Business-critical networks

We build networks for places where the work stops when the network does: production, fish farming, power stations and data centres, as well as ordinary offices. Control systems and other OT equipment are placed in their own zones, separated from the office network, and all traffic between the zones passes through the firewall.

What the network has to withstand

Intruders

Segmentation isolates threats. An infected PC in the office cannot reach servers, cameras or control systems in production.

Accidents

Hardware fails, diggers cut cables, internet providers go down. We monitor the network, and you decide where a backup line is worth having.

Poor performance

Traffic management and capacity are planned so that video meetings and production systems do not compete for the same line.

Unknown devices

Unauthorised devices and DIY set-ups are kept off the network.

Examples

A new site

Without Connect

A new site opens. The equipment is bought for that site alone, the rules are set up by hand, and the VPN takes weeks to get right. The site ends up set up differently from the head office.

With Connect

The new site gets the same design and policy as every other site. It comes online faster and is monitored in the same place as the rest.

The internet line drops

Without Connect

The internet line fails. Everything that depends on it stops until the provider answers the phone.

With Connect

The backup line you chose takes over, and the monitoring alerts us. The work continues.

A virus on an office PC

Without Connect

The virus spreads to the file server and the production network.

With Connect

The virus stops in the zone where it started, and we are alerted.

What Connect includes

Network design

Built for the environment, from a single office to multi-site industrial operations. Topology, access policies, segmentation and redundancy are mapped before the first cable is pulled.

Central management

Switches, access points and firewalls are managed in one place. Firmware is tested before deployment and rolled out in agreed maintenance windows.

Wi-Fi

Automatic channel optimisation, band steering and fast roaming between access points. Coverage is planned for the building and the work in it.

Firewall

Traffic is inspected at the edge of the network and between the zones, with rules that follow the segmentation design.

Traffic monitoring

Continuous visibility of what is on the network and how it behaves.

Redundancy and failover

Failover paths, backup links and redundant core components, where you choose them. We size them to what an interruption would cost you.

Secure access for people who work away from the office can be added to Connect. Monitoring and response around the clock (MDR) can be added through Secure. With your own IT team, the same work is available as a network project.

Connect, Workspace and Secure

Workspace covers each employee’s PC and Microsoft 365, Connect the network, and Secure the security services. You can buy all three under one agreement, or one at a time.

Contact

Tell us how many sites you have and what the work requires.