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A Buyer’s Guide to Hosted Security: Ten questions that every IT manager should ask
Virtualisation and cloud computing promise to provide businesses with highly responsive ICT and with new efficiencies all at a lower cost. Yet it is application-savvy, next-generation networks which, when combined with virtualisation or cloud, raise the bar in streamlining operations. This paper details the additional benefits available to those businesses who use SMART WIRES to extend virtualisation throughout their enterprise and who augment this resource, which can be viewed as a private cloud, with services delivered from the public cloud.
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Business Vs Consumer Grade Next Generation Networks
Whilst most Communication Providers (CPs) in the UK are focused on addressing the current and future needs of UK consumers, Exponential-e is entirely focused on the business community. The Exponential-e network has been designed and engineered to create a new suite of business grade products and tools to build cutting edge solutions optimised for medium to large enterprises.
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IPv6: Is your business at risk?
This white paper looks at the business challenges related to the migration between IPv4 and IPv6 and how Exponential-e can help.
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Next-generation WANs. Towards fast, flexible, low-cost wide area networks
In the corporate connectivity landscape, a new force is promising fast, flexible and ultra low-cost bandwidth across wide area networks
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NGN Now: Delivering on The Promise of NGN With Ethernet
The premise of this paper is simple; “Unequivocally, a Next Generation Network (NGN) will greatly enhance your business. Their technical superiority and versatility as a network infrastructure facilitates the advance in corporate agility that companies need to compete in today’s accelerated global business environment. And for those corporates looking to embrace this new infrastructure technology, it is easy for the true NGN-based carriers that have done their homework to demonstrate how and where a NGN will deliver the requisite ROI, competitive advantage and cost optimisation.”
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Smart Wires for the Smart Cloud era
There is a requirement for leaders in the design and development of WAN solutions and ICT services to guide its customers through the "noise" of cloud debate. This is crucially important to maximise the value of assets, create buy-in for customers and achieve value for money.
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The Complementarity of Virtualisation and Next Generation Networks
The capabilities of an NGN can act as a key enabler of virtualised IT resources. In fact, it could be argued that any decisions about the underlying communications network should be central to the virtualisation project overall. This concept is explored in more detail in this paper.
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The Digital Economy Act: Are you compliant?
The UK Digital Economy Act was finally passed on April 8 2010 by 189 votes to 47 amidst much controversy. The Act will see illegal down-loaders punished for repeated attempts to access copyrighted content. This paper examines the detail of the Act and what it means for UK business. It goes on to introduce PowerNGNplus as a vital tool in helping companies keep on the right side of the law.
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Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) - Backgrounder
A VPLS-enabled Next Generation Network (NGN) enables the provision of Ethernet based multipoint-to-multipoint communication over IP/MPLS networks. It makes it possible for geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting multiple sites through pseudo wires to a central bridge.
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Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Technical Tutorial
One of the main reasons why Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), generally accepted as the de-facto convergence technology, is so attractive to service providers, is that MPLS facilitates the deployment and management of Virtual Private Networks (VPN). While MPLS-based layer 3 VPNs have been gaining considerable momentum in the industry for some time, many now acknowledge that MPLS-based layer 2 VPNs, particularly Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), will become very important in a service provider’s service offering. VPLS enables service providers to offer multipoint Ethernet "Virtual LAN" services to a large number of customers. This technical tutorial describes the basic operation of VPLS and the requirements on the different involved network elements.
