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Firewall+
The satisfaction of travelling over your own private
information superhighway is greatly enhanced when
you connect to the Internet which can give you unlimited
reach across the globe.
However, as we’ve stressed, connecting to the
Internet can easily compromise your sensitive business
communications and data. Worse it can provide
unwelcome intruders free access your organisation
from anywhere in the world.
To be assured that the data on your network is totally safe it is important that
your own private network is always connected to public networks by a fully managed
and sophisticated firewall.
Firewall+ is required for OfficeLink+ to connect
your private network to the Internet. In addition to providing the interconnection, Firewall+ gives
you the confidence that your private network is being protected by the very best
technology and that your network security is being monitored around the clock
by the dedicated OfficeLink+ staff.
A Full Application-Layer Firewall and Multi-Homed
Internet Gateway
Firewall+ sits across your entire private information
superhighway. Like Network+ and Voice+,
Firewall+ is located at heart of the OfficeLink+
Framework. This means that the connections
to all of your sites are physically and logically
secured from harmful Internet applications, intruders
(both physical and virtual), computer viruses and
even power failures. And just as important,
each of your sites is only one hop to the outside
world. Firewall+ is easy to manage, more secure
and certainly the most cost-effective way to secure
multiple locations.
On the outside of Firewall+, your private network
is directly connected to the Internet backbone via
multiple tier-1 Internet providers, giving you Internet
speeds of up to 100 mb/s straight into your own private
information superhighway.
Peace of Mind Redundancy
The multiple Internet connections that OfficeLink+
provides also ensure transparent redundancy for your
Internet traffic (both incoming and hosted). OfficeLink+
takes responsibility for all of the complexity required
to multi-home your private network. And because
we do this automatically for all of our clients,
you don’t incur the disproportionate costs
normally associated with such sophisticated network
designs. In fact all of this powerful design
is provided to you automatically as part Firewall+.
Firewall+ is rented to you as part of your total
OfficeLink+ solution. Since the OfficeLink+
Framework is fully managed, your multi-homed Internet
connections and your Firewall+ are also managed seamlessly.
Restricting access between your private network and
the Internet is as simple as a phone call or email
request. In
fact your Firewall+ is fully monitored 24 hours per day
7 days per week for your peace of mind. And if
Firewall+ detects any unusual traffic leaving or entering
your private information superhighway it immediately
and automatically notifies the OfficeLink+ operations
centre. Harmful applications, malicious intruders,
computer viruses and worms are no longer permitted
to compromise your private information superhighway
undetected.
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