Why do you need a Wide Area Network?

Bringing everybody together If your an organisation with geographically separated offices, then a WAN from OpenIP is just what you need. It will allow you to centralise key infrastructure like directory servers, terminal servers and phone systems, whilst reducing operational costs.

Lower call costs Logically enough, if you've got multiple offices, then a significant proportion of your call costs are going to comprise of calls from office to another. Operating a VoIP phone system over your WAN means that your inter-branch calls immediately become free. With an OpenIP VoIP phone system and WAN solution, all the pieces start to fall into place.

Proven, long lasting solutions When you invest in a VPN solution from OpenIP , you know you're going to be getting a reliable network, and here's why: we only supply proven VPN solutions built from components known to work well together. At OpenIP we recommend Cisco's 1800 Series Integrated Service Routers. One of the key benefits over other VPN solutions is that you've got one box with your router and your firewall in, but it's also modular, allowing you to replace individual components so that your router can grow with your network. This protects your investment and prolongs the working life of your network.

An end to false economies Sure, you can buy a VPN router from the likes of Netgear or ZyXEL for under £100, but you'll pay for it again several times over due to lost productivity, poor network performance and waiting for files to transfer, amongst other things. The amount of time you'll spend rebooting it because it's locked up again almost doesn't bear thinking about. One thing for certain is that it will be the bottleneck on your network connection; broadband speeds are getting faster every day, and there's no point paying for 8M broadband if you're going to choke it off with a poor quality router. This problem will be all the more acute throughout 2008 as BT upgrade the first 650 exchanges across the country to 24M.

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