DRAS

Wide Area Networking

Comprehensive Managed WAN Services

In our role as your Managed WAN Provider, we specialize in configuring secure and reliable connections spanning your entire organizational landscape through Wide Area Network (WAN) services. Our solutions are meticulously designed, thoughtfully delivered, and expertly managed to seamlessly align with the specific requirements of your business.

For example, our managed WAN services empower prominent retailers to adeptly handle surges in demand, facilitate seamless integration of services for local authorities, and assist healthcare providers in ensuring secure access to critical information for clinicians, regardless of time or location.

A trusted Managed WAN service provider

Leveraging our expertise in wide area networking provides our clients with substantial advantages, such as:

Enhanced Performance Optimization

Our meticulously tailored managed WAN services are engineered to address your unique requirements, ensuring precise performance levels through the implementation of Quality of Service, layered services, and cutting-edge security measures. Our expert team maintains 24/7 vigilance, actively monitoring your network to guarantee both availability and exceptional WAN service performance.

Economically Efficient Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Leveraging our substantial buying influence, we extend the benefits of economies of scale to streamline your WAN infrastructure expenses. This allows you to reduce costs while still maintaining the precise service levels required, ensuring predictable and diminished long-term expenditure.

Future-Ready Solution Architecture

In crafting your managed WAN, we go beyond addressing current needs and anticipate future requirements. This forward-thinking approach enables us to integrate technological advancements as they unfold, ensuring flexibility to adapt to evolving demands.

Robust Business Continuity Assurance

Built upon our robust MPLS core network, our managed WAN service guarantees the highest level of availability. Multiple connections and failover mechanisms are strategically in place to ensure uninterrupted service to critical sites, safeguarding your business continuity.

Safeguarding Corporate Intellectual Property

As a leading WAN provider, we manage some of the most secure wide area networks in the UK, catering to government departments and healthcare providers. Drawing on this extensive experience, we offer commercial sectors secure-by-design managed WAN services that prioritize the protection of your corporate intellectual property.

Scalable and Agile Connectivity Solutions

Whether incorporating a new site or enhancing capacity at an existing location, our versatile array of connectivity solutions empowers us to swiftly adapt to your evolving requirements, ensuring scalability and agility.

Understanding Managed WAN Services

Managed WAN services entail entrusting the management and operation of a wide area network (WAN) to a specialized service provider. These services encompass a comprehensive range of activities related to your network infrastructure, offering:

Requirements Assessment: Collaborative analysis to comprehend your specific network needs, encompassing both current and future requirements.
Network Design: Crafting a network design aligned with your requirements and objectives.
Deployment: Implementation of the designed network, covering hardware and software configurations, and establishment of both physical and logical network components.
Ongoing Support: Continuous provision of support, including troubleshooting, maintenance, and helpdesk services.
Monitoring: Continuous oversight of network performance, involving traffic tracking, issue identification, and ensuring uninterrupted uptime.
Reporting: Generation and delivery of reports on network performance, outages, and other relevant metrics.
Security: Implementation of robust security measures to safeguard the network from threats and vulnerabilities, often incorporating firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption.
Managed WAN services are designed to enhance network efficiency, diminish operational overhead, and elevate overall network performance. This allows your organization to concentrate on its core activities. These services are meticulously tailored to meet specific business requirements and can dynamically adapt to changes in your network needs over time.

Empower Network Control with WAN Insight

Enhance your network management capabilities through WAN Insight, our customer monitoring dashboard offering real-time visibility into the performance, availability, and resource utilization of your corporate WAN. Within your managed WAN environment, you can efficiently:
Identify Issues: Obtain an instantaneous, graphical overview of problematic areas across different network locations.
Analyse Traffic: Pinpoint high-traffic zones within your WAN.
Track Data Spikes: Monitor irregular data spikes during various time intervals.
Plan Capacity: Evaluate WAN performance as an integral part of your ongoing capacity management strategy.
Information is Power: WAN Insight empowers you to assert control over your network by monitoring performance, detecting issues, and optimizing your network architecture. This is crucial for ensuring a reliable, guaranteed service.

Managed WAN Capabilities

Offering a comprehensive Managed WAN service precisely customized to meet your specific requirements, featuring:
Managed Service Excellence Optimized Performance Network Diverse Connectivity Options Proactive Monitoring Framework Tailored SLAs for Precision Comprehensive Dashboard Control & Visibility

Our comprehensive managed WAN service spans the entire spectrum of your network requirements. From meticulous planning, where we assess the most suitable connectivity options tailored to your needs and budget, to continuous day-to-day monitoring and management. This service alleviates the burden on your internal IT teams, allowing them to focus on high-value, strategic activities that propel your business forward.

Address both current and future network capacity needs by implementing a meticulously designed WAN network. Custom-tailored to align with your Service Level Agreements (SLAs), the unique requirements of individual sites, and the specific types of traffic traversing your network, it serves as the cornerstone for optimized performance in line with your evolving demands.

Ensure each of your site locations has the right network connectivity, meeting their capacity and cost requirements. We support you with a wide range of connectivity options, including:

ADSL
Ethernet
Leased line
SD-WAN
FTTC
GEAoE
Wireless
Ethernet first mile
Our managed WAN services are fortified by a comprehensive support, monitoring, and management package, featuring 24/365 monitoring of all hardware, software, and network elements by our internal Operation Centre (NOC) team. This includes:
Event reporting and analysis
Response to systems alerts
Customer notification of systems alerts
We provide Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and connectivity options precisely aligned with your WAN requirements. Our approach takes into account varying SLAs associated with each connectivity option, ensuring meticulous design to meet your specific needs. Our SLAs establish clear service and management standards, defining the metrics for evaluating the quality and performance of your service.
Gain insight into the performance and usage information of your managed WAN solution at a glance, covering key aspects such as:
Status of open tickets
Storage utilization and trending information
Online access to billing data
Enterprise-class reporting and management suite

Choosing DRAS for Managed WAN Excellence

Opting for DRAS ensures not only meticulous management of your Wide Area Network (WAN) but also complete control over the connectivity that underpins your WAN services.

Our seasoned teams adeptly manage some of the largest and most secure networks in the UK, delivering proactive management and assured environments that organizations rely on day in, day out. This is attributed to our:

National 100Gb MPLS network
Dual 24/7 network operation centers
Managed networks available 24/7/365
20 years of experience managing mission-critical networks
Proven track record in public sector infrastructure

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