Enterprise

Rationalizing Commercial Necessity

Enterprise Market	1600	800
High capacity provisioning to GigE in a space saving, low powered MSPP	Yes	Yes
Quick and easy installation, and intelligible PC based management for mission critical edge access applications	Yes	Yes
Highest availability and protection, including protected ring architectures	Yes	Yes
A broad mix of voice, data, SCADA, optical and TDM interfaces supporting legacy equipment and next generation services	Yes
Internal, B2B and EDI Data Acquisition and Transport (suits retail and professional services)	Yes
Digital Voice and VoIP delivery	Yes	Yes
Effective integration with traditional Enterprise transport backbones and legacy infrastructure including proprietary mainframes (suits Banking and Finance)	Yes	Yes
Corporate Security, Surveillance, and other peripheral service support	Yes	Yes

For the Enterprise customer, IT technologies are implemented to facilitate a business focus. Usually removed from core business profit centers, an Enterprise network is a commercial necessity that must be expressed as a cost center with demonstrable advantages with respect to capital expense, operational expense and return on investment. Customers who are subject to this Enterprise paradigm include:

Campus-Network applications exemplify the first instance of a requirement for service distribution beyond the limits of carrier doorstep service.

Small to Medium Enterprise gains leverage by implementing a network front end through which to mix, match and aggregate its best carrier service options (so called "Carrier Selection").

In the case of banking, finance and other security sensitive industries, the requirement for a private network may stem from concern that the risk or exposure associated with carrier network data handling is unacceptable. The use of IBM mainframes and serial connectivity is also endemic to, and sometimes a policy of, the banking and finance sectors, necessitating specialist provisioning beyond the capabilities of a carrier.

Although a non-core cost center, the importance of networking in an Enterprise environment cannot be underplayed. The data facilitated by a network may represent the entire commercial assets of an organisation, and network transactions may have the import of the largest commercial transactions. Therefore resiliency, security and high speed connectivity are of central importance.

To meet both the economic imperative of a cost center, and the commercial imperative of an essential technology, Enterprise network solutions must be simple and economical. Technical know-how requirements must also be addressed with minimal overhead and preferably with existing human capital, imposing an additional requirement that solutions be widely intelligible. Finally, increased reliance on IP technologies within the commercial arena dictates that Enterprise networks must facilitate cost-effective, incremental growth towards ubiquitous high-end service provisioning.

Haliplex Enterprise Solution

Haliplex solutions place the full potential of network management squarely within reach of the Enterprise operator. Achieving economy through consolidation, and simplicity through integrated software management and superior engineering, Haliplex platforms unobtrusively support a core business focus, and demand fractional support and operational expenditure.

Use the Haliplex platforms to interconnect a PBX system and deliver telecommunications over geographically dispersed Enterprise satellites; transport internet using Ethernet and Corporate LAN capabilities; incrementally migrate your legacy system to Ethernet and IP; cross connect and aggregate services to enjoy carrier savings; and transport your VoIP services in a protected ring.