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An effective Local Area Network (LAN) infrastructure is essential for efficiently running a organisation's day to day communications services and particularly for the rollout and efficient use of VoIP services. When deployed successfully, an effective LAN can help organisations save money and increase employee productivity.
We realise that networks have more demands placed on them everyday - to run more reliably, faster, to scale easily and to support new users and applications, all at a lower cost of ownership. With carrier-class reliability, our LAN solution is working smarter to support a variety of applications from VoIP to Video
Networks are evolving
Networks are experiencing massive growth…data traffic is evolving and will continue to grow. Which is why 8el have partnered with Brocade - providing businesses with a predictable network infrastructure and a fully managed end-to-end LAN solution.
Brocade is a global company with over 26 years of networking experience through the acquisition of key businesses. An innovator in LAN technology, Brocade are focused on data communication for businesses. The recent acquisition of Foundry brings the strengths of the IP industry together with the SAN experience of Brocade.
Managed IP to the desktop
8el offers a fully managed service that includes controlling the configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of businesses Local Area Network. This includes the provision of switches and cabling where required to ensure optimum performance and reduced workload for the IT team.
- Planning- 8el has over 8 years experience in delivering converged networks and with the latest strategic partnership with Brocade, puts us in good stead to advise businesses on managing networks.
- Intelligent switches - Automated configuration and tuning will provide your network with a predictable and consistent performance. With a requirement to support more and more applications, it is important to have an infinite capacity on the network.
- Cabling - Cabling can be an issue for customer's LAN’s, particularly the cabling of new build offices or sites where existing cabling is not adequate for purpose. 8el works with a number of partners and can take over the management of office cabling removing another burden from the customer's IT team.
- Monitoring - 8el can provide full 24/7 monitoring, management and support of LAN infrastructure to ensure optimum performance across the network.
- Maintenance and support - 8el offer a complete range of maintenance support agreements to protect and cover your network in the event of breakdown or failure, providing guaranteed fix hardware maintenance, with nationwide coverage and multi-vendor capabilities - reducing downtime to a minimum. This superior level of support is backed up by a spares inventory in excess of £4.5m and a two-hour spares delivery guarantee - giving you confidence that the network will be back up and running in no time.
- Scalable - 8el can deliver a broad portfolio of devices to provide a truly scalable infrastructure that caters for an ever increasing demand on applications.
- Secure - Prevent service disruptions and protect sensitive data through Denial of Service (DoS) and control SPAM through advanced firewall applications.
- Energy and space efficient - Lower power consumption reduces the requirement for cooling and ultimately, reducing costs.