MPLS Networks

Overview

As your business grows, it can be hard for your WAN to keep up. You need to be able to add new applications and services to your network - without the onerous cost of constantly adding more capacity to cope with growing demand.

As businesses develop and change, the way that people work changes too: they need more flexibility in terms of how, when and where they work, but they demand greater reliability and - as competitive pressures increase - they become increasingly less tolerant of even a few moments downtime.

hSo MPLS lets you build a more flexible Wide Area Network (WAN) to connect your offices intelligently, with resilient links that are specifically designed to carry both voice and data over the same network - without jeopardising the quality of either.

How Does It Work?

 

hSo MPLS is a managed service that link your sites, creating a secure, private WAN that supports virtually any business application from Voice Over IP through to mission-critical database driven applications or high-quality videoconferencing.

MPLS allows the different types of traffic on your WAN to be treated differently. For example, VoIP phone calls can be prioritised over intranet traffic, which can in turn by prioritised over general web surfing. This enables your phone calls, corporate web applications, VPN traffic and Internet surfing to share the same connection - without putting the more time-sensitve applications at risk.

Why hSo?

hSo is one of very few providers to combine its own MPLS network with other Tier 1 carriers to create an end-to-end MPLS solution. Our expertise in both telecoms and IT, lets us deliver the best and most cost effective WAN services to our customers. As a network owner, we can ensure absolute privacy on your network, with high levels of performance and resilience.

Because we use MPLS, we can deliver quality of service (QoS), traffic prioritisation and service assurance, ensuring that service degredation or downtime are significantly reduced.

hSo MPLS incorporates proactive monitoring from our Network Operations Centre. We provides 24/7 customer service by phone or email and industry-leading Service Level Agreements, ensuring that you're working with a trusted partner. We operate from world-class data centres UK wide, with Tier 1 network access from multiple carriers.

Key Benefits

 

  • Greater resilience through automatic re-routing of voice and data traffic if your primary connection goes down
  • The flexibility to expand or change your networks to suit business needs
  • Assured Quality of Service using traffic prioritisation
  • Fast and easy provisioning and upgrades
  • MPLS VPNs and VPLS services enable multiple sites to connect seamlessly to your existing LAN/WAN
  • Traffic Engineering to avoid network congestion
  • Reduction in running costs compared with dedicated connections
Technical Specifications

 

  • Low latency end-to-end MPLS core
  • Fully resilient WAN infrastructure - traffic can be re-routed in under 50 milliseconds
  • Separate physical or virtual hand-offs on customer site
  • In-built security for VPNs using standard routers, with no need for additional firewalls
  • 5 Classes of Service for quality of service
  • Bespoke bandwidth allocation
  • Proactive monitoring by the hSo 24/7 Network Operations Centre