Below is a typical example of how a company can benefit from using our leased line product:

Corporate Connect

The Customer
A national chain of distributors.

The Challenge
The customer has over 50 branches distributed throughout the UK. A central head office holds the bulk of their IT infrastructure the most important being the application server and active directory server. The customer also has its own mail server. All of the branches need reliable access to these servers and each has in excess of 20 members of staff using the IT systems at any one time. Only the head office requires Internet Access.

The Solution
Progressive Networks' delivered a 2Mbps leased line to each branch via the many PoP's we have across the UK. Because of the importance of the

head office and the need to ensure that connectivity to each branch is maintained, 2 x 34Mbps leased lines were installed in a fault resilient configuration at the head office. This specification ensures that there is sufficient bandwidth to meet the requirements of the branches and for Internet access to the head office. To prevent Internet access using too much bandwidth any traffic not destined for or originating from a branch is restricted to a maximum of 2Mbps.

The second 34Mbps leased line is delivered from a different PoP and thus removes the PoP as a single point of failure thus in the event of the primary leased line or the PoP it is terminated in failing; the backup line will automatically start routing traffic with no loss of service to the customer or their branch offices.

The customers chose to manage the security of their own network and so all network traffic is passed through the customers firewalls.