Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is an enabling technology. It allows you to remove costly complexity and network duplication inherent in most legacy WANs. It allows you to centralise your firewall distribution to multiple sites, whilst giving you a cheaper, simpler and easier to manage WAN infrastructure.

The true business benefits of VPLS are endless, and a key word often used when describing or referring to VPLS is 'Simplify'. We have therefore created a list of 10 things you can do with VPLS, which simplify the way in which your WAN infrastructure operates, or putting it bluntly, 10 things you can't do without VPLS:

1	Wide Area virtualisation - Virtualisation projects can escape the building because different buildings in different locations think they are all on the same LAN. Virtualisation investment can be shared across all sites.
2	No stovepiping:- as companies add services or move to SaaS each new service can be added to the existing platform as part of a unified solution – there is no need to stovepipe new services and support on separate circuits. Investment is future-proof and cost effective.
3	VPLS masks the fact that SaaS services are not being sourced locally increasing user acceptance and guaranteeing usability.
4	Solving Sarbanes Oxley requirements - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity can be supported further by moving servers to locations 10’s of Kilometres away with the addition of now only a few milliseconds making it imperceptible to end users.
5	The enterprise customer’s comms room can be split up and hosted from different sites to further extend DR practices.
6	Lets the customer take back control – easy and rapid in-house configuration increases agility, efficiencies and business responsiveness.
7	Services and/or hardware can be centralised removing unnecessary duplication and support costs previously thought necessary on performance grounds.
8	Services can be converged in the core leading to network efficiencies but offered as physically separate services on different cables at the customer premise – simple and easy.
9	Each service can be assigned its own service level and class of service backed up by SLAs.
10	VPLS can uniquely facilitate the centralisation and/or distribution of mission critical services and can help to achieve the seemingly impossible objectives of putting in place business continuity whilst at the same time making cost savings.

For more information about VPLS please email us or call us on: +44 (0) 845 470 4001