Monday 24 November 2014

Jemca signs off MPLS WAN upgrade

Based in London and the South-East, the core business of Jemca Car Group is the sales & servicing of Lexus & Toyota vehicles.  The company operates from 12 locations and employs over 500 people. The company has had an MPLS wide area network from Platinum for the last 3 years, which has allowed them to implement several new IT and telephony initiatives which were not possible previously due to a lack of bandwidth.

With the introduction of faster and more cost effective data telecommunication technologies over the past 18 months, Jemca has decided to upgrade the existing network and introduce a new managed firewall service.  This will allow Jemca to simplify their current infrastructure, thus reducing their administrative overhead, save costs by reducing the number of dedicated data links they have to Toyota GB and ceasing other circuits used for services such as CCTV monitoring and customer WiFi.  The new network will provide more than enough bandwidth and resilience to allow all the services to run across one network and leave spare capacity for the future.

Most locations will use fibre EAD (Ethernet Access Direct) circuits as their primary link, with either an EoFTTC (Ethernet over Fibre to the Cabinet) or EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) circuit as backup.  Smaller locations will have either EoFTTC ot EFM circuit.  Internet access will be provided through a resilient Managed Firewall solution, built around WatchGuard security appliances, that will break out to the internet via one of state of the art Datacentres.

Our MPLS IPVPN solutions are built on the NGN provided by TalkTalk Business, the largest of its kind in the UK and still expanding. Platinum have been delivering and managing IPVPN networks for many years and by choosing Platinum, you are assured of a solution delivered on a robust Tier1 infrastructure, but managed by a dynamic, agile company, able to respond with speed and flexibility to keep your network in optimum shape.