Custom Networking
Meeting your unique communications needs
If you need dedicated links between multiple sites, to carry complex, time-critical communications including audio and video, or to connect specialist or non-standard applications, Telecom can provide the answer. Our tailor-made Custom Networking solutions help knit your organisation even closer together, improving co-ordination, reducing duplication and boosting customer service. The benefits to be gained from Custom Networking are vast. Our customers are utilising our capacity and expertise in new ways everyday.
- Keep head office in better touch with branches, let you monitor performance and allocate resources more accurately. The left hand knows what the right hand is doing
- Give branches better access to head office resources - for example, to check stock at the warehouse, send customer orders in for processing, or to backup records securely off-site
- Enable branches to share information with other branches, for instance to check stock availability in other outlets, send inter-office email or share sensitive information such as reports, analyses and proposals
- Give you flexibility to link existing applications with new systems - for example, to connect an accounts and inventory system with a website to set up an e-commerce facility for customers.
Key featuresMeasurable business benefits
Is it for you?
- Secure. Your information travels on Telecom?s Secure Private Network, providing higher levels of security from competitors and hackers than the Internet can provide. High-level encryption ensures your private business information stays private
- Versatile. With our diverse range of networking technologies Custom Networking solutions can be designed to support multiple protocols, multiple speeds and a huge range of data volumes. So you can link any number, or any variety, of systems and applications
- Expert support. Whatever your communications needs, whatever applications you?re using Telecom has expert teams that can help make Custom Network solutions work for you
- Specified to your needs. Custom Network solutions are tailor-made to match your requirements exactly and deliver the network 'grunt' you need - no more, no less. So there is no wastage, no unused connections
- Easy to run. We can manage all the connections for you, freeing you from the problems of administering and maintaining your own inter-office network. Alternatively, we can provide a solution that lets you manage your own network or incorporate your own hardware
- Reliable. The Telecom network meets world standards for telecommunications reliability, minimising your risk of downtime from network outages
- Coverage. Telecom Custom Networking utilises the largest end-to-end telecommunications network in New Zealand and can give you access to multiple locations in 260 countries world wide.
Boost customer service. Branches wherever they're located can access resources such as customer databases with equal speed and efficiency. Customers can enjoy the same standard of services everywhere: if they move, they don't need to change suppliers.
A total enterprise management infrastructure. Custom Networking solutions can provide the communications backbone for enterprise management (ERP) systems, giving you tools to co-ordinate the activities of all your business functions to achieve total organisational synergy.
Improve control and reduce costs. We can design a Custom Networking solution that provides a total communications solution for voice, video and data, delivering cost savings and greater efficiency eg. with video conferencing staff can meet face-to-face and save the time and expense of inter-office travel.
Extend your reach. Custom Networking can help you move into new markets, both nationally and overseas. You have the reassurance of tried and trusted systems. Branches offshore can have access to the same resources you have at home and head office can keep track of business more easily, so out of sight is definitely not out of mind.
Business continuity. Planning for the unexpected is prudent management. If disaster strikes in any area of your business, a Custom Networking solution could help your business cope.
Custom Networking solutions can be designed to meet virtually any communications needs, regardless of the complexity or type of information to be transmitted.
They're the solutions for time-critical communications such as video and audio where there is no tolerance for lags or delay, or other situations when it is vital that information arrives intact and on time.
They're also ideal if you have to integrate multi-protocol (eg. IP and non-IP based) legacy systems or specialist applications.
For more information
Ask your Account Manager, call our Business solutions Centre on 126.
