Business Ethernet | Benefits and Features
Metro ethernet is a business ethernet service, which offers a wide range of benefits and features that can be customised to suit your business needs, providing you with the perfect solution for your company. Please find some of the main features and benefits listed below.
Benefits
- Cost-effective - Business ethernet VPN charges are based on the cost of connecting to the VPN, not from site to site. This means that for each additional site only one connection is required to our network as opposed to two (A end and B end). As a result, costs reduce even further.
- Reducing costs - Bandwidth is cheaper by up to a factor of 10 than traditional wide area bandwidth.
- Flexibility - A metro ethernet VPN enables you to make decisions about geographical deployment of equipment that are based on the best use of your capital rather than on physical location.
- Central management - Business ethernet unblocks the Wide Area Network and creates a large Local Area Network across multiple sites, opening up your network to sharing applications and allowing for data to be stored centrally or duplicated in a coordinated manner. This removes issues with maintaining multiple incidences of information such as HR policies or training materials.
- Easier management - Business ethernet networks are inherently simpler to deploy and manage than traditional Wide Area Networking technology. This not only means management costs are reduced but also frees up staff for other business critical areas.
- Share resources - Your organisation can share the physical network resources between various departments/buildings, and still keep data segregated securely by the creation of multiple Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs).
- Easy to upgrade - because our business ethernet services are deployed over fibre, which has a much greater bandwidth capacity than copper, the complexities of upgrades are removed.
Features
- Layer 2 technology - Ethernet is transparent to the layer 3 routing protocols, which means that it supports a wider range of applications, which run on protocols that are not IP. By contrast, and can only run IP traffic.
- Any to any connectivity - Metro ethernet VPN reduces the dependency on central sites in hub and spoke networks built on traditional point to point networks. This gives greater resiliency and allows customers to reduce the bandwidth requirements into central sites.
- Multiple bandwidths - we can offer bandwidths from 1Mbps to 1 Gbps and we can easily scale them to meet your organisation's individual requirements.
- Simple to configure - because this is a packet switched network rather than a circuit switched network, adding new sites with connectivity to all the others in the VPN is far simpler than configuring logical connections over traditional VPNs, this makes it cheaper and more flexible. Consequently customers can manage their estate more easily and the cost of removing staff from one site for refurbishment or disaster scenarios and relocating them becomes very manageable...
- Remote management - remote configuration and upgrading of VLANs means that most upgrades do not require a site visit, offering a cost effective and efficient solution. Bandwidth can be upgraded remotely in 1 Mbps increments, as required.
- Class of Service - Along with our quality guarantees you can manage different traffic with different priorities across your network - something that is particularly important as IPvoice and video applications become more popular. We can prioritise business critical applications over other traffic types according to your requirements.
Get a quote or contact us about our Metro Ethernet services
CCS Leeds offer a range of services, including high speed internet, cost-effective metro ethernet services and bespoke internet services to suit your needs. To find out more about our services or to get a quote, click the button or call: (0)113 294 66 99.