Provident's High Availability Internet Solution.
Provident Technology, a leader in telecoms & ICT solutions, in association with SmoothWall Ltd have developed a market leading High Availability Broadband Solution for all sizes of business, that can eliminate connectivity losses due to unforeseen failure of service.

By adding a second alternative broadband connection (Fibre, Leased Line, SDSL, ADSL2+, Wireless etc) and introducing Provident’s new high availability solution, critical services can be maintained even during periods of connectivity losses. This ensures business continuity for,:

• Email
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
• VPNs
• Internet access
• Extranets

Our solution not only allows for two or more (up to twenty) autonomous internet connections, it also provides Load Balancing and Quality of Service (QoS). By using true load balancing and QoS, the solution can deliver on the promise of BGP routers. QoS provides the ability to successfully implement a VoIP System as either Managed or Hosted guaranteeing a minimum of bandwidth available for voice at all times. Fallback to POTS Dial-up and ISDN also Supported (to retain ADSL PPPoE IP address).

Our solution can enable your organisation to get the best value from your internet connections, ensuring that mission critical and interactive services run smoothly and quickly, yet avoiding the need for wasteful spare capacity that is seldom needed.

Background

With the proliferation of inexpensive Internet provision, most business services have evolved to include some aspect of online services. No area of the average business day has escaped the need to access the Internet for the latest, up to the minute, information. “Always on” services have encouraged most business’s to move their email and intranet onto their own servers taking advantage of collaboration tools previously only available to larger Multinationals and Financial Institutions.

Provident Technology offer consultancy services to help you plan Failover. Ensure you have correct DNS setting for website failover, MX records for email and VPN failover for remote sites and TeleWorkers.

This product has been sucessfully deployed in Ireland with Corporate Customers like Bank of Scotland Ireland. The Appliance supports throughputs of over 800Mbps and we can supply you with the re-assurance that it has been proven on premise in production enviornments in Ireland with fibre WAN connections using such bandwidth - managing it pro-actively with the SmoothTraffic Module for QoS.

As Businesses increasingly operate on a single broadband connection to function in the most efficient and productive manner, the importance of ensuring your Internet Connection is always available has become as important as maintaining your cashflow; in most cases, cashflow could depend on your inexpensive, single internet connection.