Managed Wide Area Network: Star MPLS

Star provides a fully managed, high performance and robust MPLS platform that enables you to take advantage of the benefits of a cost effective MPLS network that connects office locations. In this way you'll receive resilient access to business applications or hosted infrastructure that is reliable and secure.

Star MPLS provides your business with a high performance, guaranteed connectivity, enabling durable access to your business infrastructure. MPLS is fully managed by Star, which enables you to maximise on the benefits of your business.

Key Features

• Highly resilient infrastructure, Cisco Powered, MPLS managed and maintained by Star, with service level agreements (SLAs) defined to meet the needs of your business. Bandwidths ranging from 64k to 155Mb, powered by Star.
• High speed, resilient, Cisco powered, MPLS platform provides central management of your Internet access, security and applications through a single gateway.
• Convergence access and security (MPLS VPN) for remote workers, branch sites and business applications all over one network infrastructure, consolidating your network costs reducing management time.
• Increases availability and performance of your business critical applications by hosting them in a centralised, resilient environment.
• 24/7 local dedicated support, help desk access and guaranteed.

Benefits to your business

• Central management - Management of your Internet connectivity through a single gateway provides your business with increased security and control over Internet usage across the corporate network
• Scalability - Your MPLS solution is scalable as it can adapt and grow as your business requirements change
• Convergence - Voice and data on a single platform reduces management and infrastructure costs. Star offers nine levels of Quality of Service (QoS), providing ensured perfomance for Voice over IP services and mission critical applications
• Fully meshed - Traditional networks use point-to-point connections or IPSEC VPNs using firewalls to send traffic from site-to-site. This involves pre-configuring and managing multiple firewalls making a fully meshed environment impractical and often leads to complex configurations. Star's fully meshed MPLS solution enables site to exchange information seamlessly, while removing complexity from the infrastructure
• Reslience - The Star MPLS network is owned, managed and maintained by Star, ensuring security and reliability. This highly resilient platform has been designed to cope with failure within its core
• Reduce costs - Reduce capital costs with an allinclusive monthly fee, removing the need for expensive hardware purchases and upgrades, maintenance and licence renewals
• Remote working - Implementing MPLS means that remote workers can be given access to centrally housed resources and secure access to the internet through a centrally managed breakout
• Risk mitigation - Reduce the threat of electronic attack upon your business by investing in a robust, converged, multi-layered security system
• Real time statistics - access to star centre, our customer extranet, which enables you to assess and track performance of your internet services