Business Success is All About Successful Communication
Communication defines today’s business landscape. Interaction with colleagues, clients, suppliers, business partners and information sources is constant and pervasive. Organisational productivity and effectiveness depends on 24x7 online, real-time access from any location and any device – PC, laptop, PDA, cellphone or TV. The network is at the core of this communication and interaction, providing the fast, secure connectivity that drives business operations. Our Network Integration solutions and services ensure that your communication networks deliver the performance your business relies on.
Dimension Data understands that networks must be flexible, tailored to meet communication needs, compliant with regulation and corporate governance and also aligned with industry standards. Most importantly, we know that networks should simply work – seamlessly facilitating your organisations’ changing communication needs. Through a comprehensive range of services, adaptable scale, and in-depth networking expertise, we keep organisations connected and communicating – through their networks.
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Now more than ever, you need get more from your existing network infrastructure. And all the while, the traffic over that network increases daily.
So how do you optimise network performance and end user experience?
Do you procure more bandwidth or implement performance optimisation?
How do you manage charge-backs to your internal departments and branches?
How do you find the most optimal solution for both inside and outside the firewall?
Dimension Data can help.
Is your Network Delivering the Performance your Business Relies on?
Read our latest ideas on trends affecting today’s communications network and how to ensure yours delivers all that your business requires.
• Data Centre Networking - Architecting Server Side Networks
• Data Centre Networking - Architecting Application Services
• The Straw that Broke the Network’s Back
• Dimension Data Network Barometer Report
• Cloud Computing: the Journey Begins
• The new 802.11n Wireless Standard – Bringing Mobility to Your Business
• Location Location Location - Using Wireless to Deliver Process Improvement and Innovation
• Does Wireless MESH with Your Organisation?
• The Mobility Matrix
• Dimension Data Network Performance Frustration Report
• Optimisation Drivers
• Part 1 - Stop Signs and Yields
• Part 2 – Network Optimisation
• Part 3 – Lay-byes and Fast Lanes
• Part 4 – Freedom of the Road
Read more Dimension Data white papers and articles in Précis: Thoughts on IT in Business, our quarterly publication that explores business ideas about IT.
Dimension Data works with clients all over the world to procure, design, implement, support and manage their networks – in fact, our experience includes more than 7,800 IP networks created and managed across the world over the last ten years. To read more about how we have helped clients achieve more with their networks, see our case studies online.
Developing your Network to Deliver Communication . . .
At Dimension Data we know that networks should simply work – seamlessly facilitating your changing communication needs. Our approach to Network Integration is centred on creating a secure and manageable infrastructure, across wired and wireless, through enterprise and service provider applications to deliver improved end-user performance.
We offer a full lifecycle of services, including IT Supply Chain Services, Professional Services, Support and Managed Services, and IT Outsourcing Services across a comprehensive range of networking technologies:
Core Networking - Architecting, designing, integrating and managing secure and resilient enterprise, data centre and service provider networks to connect users and support today’s ubiquitous communication needs.
Wireless and Mobility - Creating secure wireless communications platforms that integrate seamlessly with core network infrastructure to enable and support mobility – regardless of users’ locations or computing devices used.
Performance Optimisation - Improving the end-to-end performance of applications and services across communication networks.
Operations Management - Delivering network and service management platforms, processes and operational support to drive service efficacy, service level adherence and best practice operations.
For a full listing of our services and technologies, download our Network Integration Solutions and Services Summary
South African Trends
Opening up a new world of opportunities with Voice over Wireless Local Area Networks (LAN)
The world is becoming a more mobile place, and with it, the workplace is becoming more mobile too. In building the traditional wired networks that Dimension Data has done for over 26 years, it is clear that these networks are now being augmented with wireless network infrastructures as well.
This is the view of Jeff Jack, General Manager of Dimension Data Middle East & Africa’s Network Integration business.
Jack says that by building these wireless network infrastructures, organisations are enabling their workforce to become more mobile, and to access applications – like email or Enterprise Resource Planning for instance – across their campus.
“They can access data and make quicker decisions than they were able to in the past,” he notes.
However, beyond simply accessing data and applications, location-based services that track assets and understand where people and information sets are, are something that organisations are demanding more often.
Added to this, are the advantages of Voice over Wireless LAN. “Voice is becoming important in organisations over their wireless LANs, as they can take full advantage of an infrastructure they’ve already put down, to add additional value on top of it,” Jack explains.
“What we are seeing with Voice over Wireless LAN is the emergence of a trend known as enterprise fixed-to-mobile convergence. What this allows an organisation to do is to take an ordinary mobile handset, and by loading a software client onto it, integrate it into their PBX infrastructure. This allows their staff to use their mobile phone as they would a normal PBX extension.”
This evolution brings a couple of other interesting values, he explains. “Wherever the Wireless LAN extends within one’s organisation, whether it is in your head office or branch network, so too are you able to extend this fixed-mobile convergence down to those branch offices. So when your staff makes telephone calls to one another and it is on the enterprise network that extends across your Wireless LAN, those calls are effectively free.”
With the Voice over Wireless LAN, organisations are able to extract more value out of their infrastructure, and extend more enterprise feature sets and productivity features to their workforce, while meeting a cost imperative.