How it Works / IT as a Service
Connectivity and Access
Ensuring the connectivity and UX needed for your business.
How it Works / IT as a Service
Ensuring the connectivity and UX needed for your business.
Fordway’s IT as a Service provides the following connectivity and access solutions:
Fordway Cloud Connectivity Services can be deployed over existing or new bandwidth. Using state of the art SD-WAN and LAN management techniques Fordway delivers a network service that uses dynamic application-based routing to make the best of your underlying network infrastructure.
Deployed over an existing WAN to improve performance or supplied as part of a WAN replacement where Fordway will specify and source new bearers to meet your needs. The beauty of this approach is that you do not need co-termination of your existing WAN circuits or LAN management contract to take advantage of the improvements offered by Fordway as both new and old circuits may be wrapped up into a single service.
Fordway’s network overlay solution may save you money on either LAN or WAN. The service makes best use of your bandwidth, dynamically adjusting to select the most appropriate connection for each application.
If you need additional home or mobile working capabilities due to unanticipated events, such as the Coronavirus pandemic, Cloud Connectivity Services can enhance and add additional capability to your existing network and providers to cope with the additional demands, allowing users to work effectively and above all securely from home or Covid-Secure office.
Need to move to the cloud? MPLS network holding you back? Fordway’s network overlay service organisations can add local Internet breakout at branch offices to leverage the ever-growing demand SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. All this can be achieved while still adhering to centralised web browsing, URL filtering, and security policies.
Fordway provides a PSN Gateway service for organisations such as, local authorities, social housing providers and smaller central government entities who need PSN connectivity, but would like to simplify compliance requirements and reduce the cost.
The service enables these organisations to:
Fordway’s PSN Gateway Service provides a highly available, flexible service at a significantly reduced cost compared to the existing PSN connection. Two versions of the service are offered:
Fordway is a certified PSN Service Provider with a significant infrastructure already in place delivering key services over the PSN to Government departments and associated agencies.