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For larger organisations that have more complex needs and a requirement for extra flexibility, Business IP may well be the answer. It’s a sophisticated data network that allows you to work more efficiently while also identifying opportunities to reduce your communication costs. As an integrated Wide Area Networking (WAN) solution it offers a price-per-site model billed monthly, with minimal upfront costs, and allows you to use your compatible, existing customer premise equipment (CPE).

The solution includes:

• Network access (128kbps – 100Mbps)
• Private IP VPN (IP WAN)
• Network design and configuration

Business IP operates over Telstra’s Next IP® network, a private network that complies with the international security certification ISO 27001¹, so you can be confident that your data is highly secure. IP now comes with the option of IPv6 addressing for a number of access types.

Benefits

Simple IP connectivity
Take the headache out of building an enterprise-grade network with a simple, integrated approach, including access and IP connectivity in a single per-site service. Business IP gives businesses the flexibility to use their own compatible customer premises equipment (CPE), which can reduce the need for additional up front hardware costs.

Secure connection throughout your network
Manage all valuable data travelling between your business sites. Business IP is fully compatible with other Telstra IP solutions such as Remote Working, which allows remote employees located worldwide to securely connect to the network as if they were at their desks.

Tailored to suit your budget
A Business IP Network is highly scalable (1-5000 sites) and can be tailored to suit your budget, as well as networking, application and staff needs. Help grow your business with advanced features such as class of service (CoS) as well as a compatible range of Telstra’s IP value added services (VAS).

Work with the best
The Telstra Next IP™ network core is the largest business network in Australia. This intelligent IP network uses the latest technology to support a huge range of convergent applications and services by combining the flexibility of the internet, assured security and reliable network performance.

Features

Share information securely
This simple solution integrates last mile access and wide area network (WAN) connectivity.

Features include:

• Access and bandwidth range – choose between five types of network access (ADSL, Ethernet Lite, Frame Relay and Broadband (NBN) providing speeds from 128kbps to 100 Mbps) as well as the option of IPv6 addressing.
• Telstra Next IP network virtual private network (VPN) – built over Telstra’s Next IP network core providing security and reliability
• Class of service (CoS) - you can be assured that priority will be given to latency/time sensitive applications
• Redundancy options - helps to ensure your critical sites are always on the air
• Response/restore service level agreement (SLA) – a single service restoration guarantee in urban areas² covering all components of the Business IP solution with optional enhancements available
• 24/7 Help Desk – lodge a call at any time
• Simple integrated bill – single price-per-site model.

Connect IP™ allows you to securely connect multiple business sites with reliability and ease. It’s an ideal solution for small to medium size businesses, plus smaller branch sites of enterprise and government organisations. It’s a fully integrated Wide Area Network (WAN) solution based on a price-per-site model that’s billed monthly, with minimal upfront costs. Depending on which features you choose, the solution may include:

• On-site equipment, including on-site maintenance
• Network access (64kbps – 100Mbps)
• IP virtual private network (VPN)
• Proactive on-site equipment and network management
• 2Mbps secure Internet Gateway
• Network design, configuration and management
• Connect IP Telephony option for converged voice and data networking

Connect IP operates over the Telstra Next IP® network, offering unparalleled national reach, scalability and security. In addition to advanced features such as Class of Service (CoS), the network core is targeted to deliver 99.999% reliability.

Connect IP Brochure (PDF, 359kB)

Benefits

A simple approach to building your network
Connect IP takes the headache out of building an enterprise-grade network, offering a simple, integrated approach that includes access, IP connectivity, on-site equipment, Telstra’s network management solutions and data connectivity - all in a single per-site service.

For additional simplicity, Connect IP Telephony can converge your voice and data networks into one, helping you to reduce complexity within your business and to identify opportunities for productivity benefits to support the way you do business.

Reduce your network management costs
We can help you identify opportunities to reduce investment in IT management resources by outsourcing the management of your network to us. Connect IP provides an operational expenditure price-per-site model, with minimal upfront hardware investment required, which can potentially be more economical than sourcing separate network components from multiple vendors. Ongoing costs are fixed so your business can more easily plan and budget for network costs in advance.

Helps connect your business
Connect IP can manage valuable data travelling between your business sites, including IP voice and video telephony using Connect IP Telephony. Connect IP is compatible with other Telstra IP solutions that allow remote employees from many locations to securely connect to the network.

A network that grows with your business
Connect IP is highly scalable (1-5000 sites) and can be tailored to suit your budget, networking, application and staff needs, helping to minimise concerns over equipment becoming obsolete and ongoing maintenance. As your business grows you can easily add new sites to your network. Plus you can increase access speeds between sites by simply upgrading your package and letting us take care of the rest. Your business is supported with advanced features such as Class of Service and proactive network monitoring, and you can easily add new capabilities with a range of compatible Telstra IP Value Added Services.

Work with the best
Connect IP operates over the Telstra Next IP network and complies with the international security certification ISO 27001³ so you can be confident that your data is highly secure. The Telstra Next IP network, which is integrated with the Next G® network, is Australia’s largest fully integrated national IP network. This intelligent IP network uses advanced technology to support a huge range of convergent applications and services by combining flexibility, security and reliable network performance.

Features

Take advantage of our intelligent IP network
Connect IP integrates on-site equipment, last mile access, WAN connectivity, secure internet connectivity and network management in a simple solution.

Depending on which service options you choose, features may include:

• Access and bandwidth range – choose between six types of network access (ADSL, Ethernet Lite, Ethernet, Frame Relay, Next G and Broadband (NBN) providing speeds between 128Kbps and 100Mbps)
• Connect IP Telephony option – converge your voice and data traffic on one network with reliability and ease
• Management options - choose between three levels of management options supporting on-site equipment configuration
• IP VPN – built over the Telstra Next IP network core, providing security and reliability
• Class of Service – be assured that priority will be given to latency/time sensitive applications
• Redundancy options – aims to ensure your critical sites are on the air (data services only)
• 24/7 Help Desk – lodge a call at any time
• Secure 2Mbps connectivity to the internet – centralise and share a single secure connection to the internet with all sites on your network helping to increase management and dimensioning efficiency (you must purchase an internet usage plan separately)
• Simple integrated bill – single price per-site model
• Connect IP Next G backup – available for data services on all fixed access types (where there is Telstra Next G® network coverage)

Our IP Metropolitan Area Network (IP MAN) is a flexible, high-speed data networking solution capable of interconnecting businesses in most metropolitan areas and a growing number of regional centres.

IP MAN is a flexible, Ethernet-on-fibre service designed to improve network performance and business productivity. It uses the scale, reach and reliability of the Telstra Next IP® network to provide any-to-any connection simply and cost-effectively. For those who only want point-to-point connectivity inside a metropolitan area, Telstra Ethernet MAN will be more suitable.

With IP MAN, you can also create your own advanced virtual private network by using other compatible Telstra IP solutions and a range of permanent data and dial-up products. IP MAN now comes with the option of IPv6 addressing.

IP MAN brochure (PDF, 750kB)

Benefits

Flexibility to suit your business needs
Gear your access capacity to suit the importance of each site – from 2Mbps to 4Gbps. Meanwhile, Feature Network Change lets you easily scale your bandwidth to help meet peaks in traffic.

Prioritise traffic to improve your productivity and user experience
Six levels of Class of Service (CoS) can improve the performance of time-sensitive applications such as IP voice and video, as well as other mission-critical applications.

Monitor the network to improve your performance
Easily manage the performance of your network using the reporting functionality of Network Generation Data Reporting (NGDR), which can give you more time to focus on your business.

Enhance your business resilience
Build resilience to suit your sites with options ranging from Single Uplink, Dual Access or Fully Redundant IP MAN. The optional IP Fast Re-route feature also provides rapid failover for critical applications to help reduce downtime.

Cost-efficiency
Why suffer the cost and complications of maintaining your own network when you can enjoy excellent connectivity with a cost-effective, high-speed data networking solutions from Telstra.

Work with the best
The Telstra Next IP network core is designed with a 99.999% reliability target and has ISO-27000 security certification for IP MAN, IP Wireless and IP WAN products. Our unique, end-to-end network visibility, with 24/7 monitoring from our advanced network operations centres, enables us to identify and resolve issues with a view to minimising business disruption. We have more than 1,100 Ethernet PoPs, which offer high availability and access to many locations unreachable by other carriers.

Features

Key features include:

• Scalable access – select access capacity to suit each site from 2Mbps up to 4Gbps
• Feature Network Change – accessed via an online portal
• Six Classes of Service – give priority to critical applications
• Ethernet interface – Ethernet is a simple, proven and affordable interface that avoids protocol conversions between your LAN and our network
• Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) – send a single stream of traffic to recipients simultaneously while reducing bandwidth usage
• Enhanced reporting – comprehensive reporting via Next Generation Data Reporting
• Redundancy – choose varying levels of redundancy to suit access types ranging from Single Uplink IP MAN to Fully Redundant IP MAN
• IP MAN Wide Area Port – offers wide area connectivity via our fixed line network on a per-service basis
• IPv6 addressing – IP MAN now comes with the option of IPv6 addressing.

Optional features include:

• IP Fast Re-route – provides faster failover from the primary to secondary paths for critical applications. The default failover target is 3 seconds compared to 30 seconds with normal failover

View the Bandwidth on demand application demo

Help secure your network against spam, malware and inappropriate content with our IP VAS (Value Added Services) range of security features. IP VAS gives IP networks up-to-date protection against internet-based security attacks, with minimal set-up costs, on-going maintenance and upgrade expenses. It also enables you to maintain a single point of accountability for the management of your information security.

IP VAS is sold in conjunction with Telstra’s IP WAN, IP MAN or Connect IP network solutions. There are seven comprehensive IP VAS packages built on enterprise-grade security, technology and processes for peace of mind.

Utilising the powerful Telstra Next IP® and Next G® networks, we can design and deploy complete security solutions to improve protection, and reduce security management costs and complexities.

Benefits 

Helps protect your network
Help protect your customer network from spam, malware and inappropriate content with the IP VAS range of content security features, including 24x7 technical support. IP VAS provides secure remote access, increased network robustness and scalable infrastructure to help increase the reliability of your network.

Outsource your network security
Save your business from many of the traditional costs associated with building and maintaining a security infrastructure on an IP network. IP VAS can minimise the separate payments required for setting up firewall infrastructure, service and support fees for hardware, or software licence fees with regular upgrades. The solution is ideal for businesses looking to identify opportunities to reduce IT&T costs and capital expenditure with up-to-date security features for a monthly subscription charge.

Work with the best
Telstra is a leading security solutions provider to security-dependent businesses in the public and private sectors. We have the experience, expertise and infrastructure to help your business communicate, collaborate and transact with enterprise-grade protection. Leverage our security knowledge and experience to help your organisation meet its corporate governance objectives, helping you to comply with regulatory requirements and international best-practice standards.

Features

Improved data security and integrity
Sold with our IP WAN, IP MAN or Connect IP networks, IP VAS offers seven flexible Gateway packages, depending on the security functions required:

• CIP Basic Internet Gateway – security and firewall functionality between your Connect IP service and Internet Direct service
• Standard Internet Gateway – security functionality from your IP networking service and your Internet Direct service, including firewall and predefined content security
• Enhanced Internet Gateway – security functionality from your IP networking service and your Internet Direct service, including firewall, flexible content security and remote connection
• Premium Internet Gateway – security functionality from your IP networking service and your Internet Direct service, including the Enhanced Internet Gateway with additional remote connections
• Hosting Gateway – security functionality from your IP networking service into Telstra’s hosting services
• Premium Hosting Gateway – Hosting Gateway with Content Security
• Extranet Gateway– security functionality between your Telstra IP network and another customer’s Telstra IP network.

Features include:
(Note that not all features relate to all packages)

• Managed firewall solution – commercial-grade security and high network performance with policy and management control
• Remote connection – secure access from the internet to your IP VPN using tunnelling technology. (Only applicable with Internet gateway packages. Included with the Enhanced and Premium packages, optional for the Basic and Standard packages.)
• Anti-virus and anti-spam – help to reduce risk exposure to your business through a range of anti-virus and anti-spam risk-mitigation management options (not available for the Basic Internet or Hosting Gateway packages)
• Content filtering – improved control via content filtering technology and processes (included for the Standard, Enhanced and Premium Internet Gateway Packages only)
• Management and reporting portal – comprehensive online secure access to a management and reporting portal for content security services.  

IP WAN (Wide Area Network) solution is a high-quality managed service that provides businesses with a simple, cost-effective and secure way of interconnecting between metropolitan, regional and rural offices via the wide area network.

The solution’s dedicated IP network solution can provide your business with:

• Multiple access options – benefit from any-to-any connectivity
• Connectivity to hosting services and the internet – helps you to focus your efforts on your business, not running a network
• Remote access – access from any network connection across the nation and 230 countries internationally
• Extend your coverage for mobile access – using IP Wireless you can work and access business applications remotely

IP WAN now comes with the option of IPv6 addressing for a number of access types

Benefits

Helps you manage your costs
With IP WAN, businesses can simply use a single data connection in each location. All routing and delivery of valuable data is managed by the secure Telstra Next IP® network. This enables you to identify opportunities to save on traditional costs associated with building and maintaining an office-to-office data network.

Improved security and reliability
IP WAN is a fully managed data network, combining the flexible communications of IP networks with the reliability and security of traditional data networks. New or existing Telstra data services can be connected to Telstra’s IP WAN network linking offices and business partners, while still offering access to business grade internet services.

Easy access to your information
Manage internet access over your dedicated IP WAN. High-speed fixed-line data communications (Ethernet, Frame Relay and BDSL), wireless data (ie. Next G® network) and even ISDN, satellite and dial-up are available as access options on the IP WAN network. A range of value added services (VAS) are available with IP WAN, enabling your business to manage the security of the internet, applications, email and remote IP WAN network access. You can even extend your network coverage via the Telstra Next G® network or GPRS with our IP Wireless solution that integrates into IP WAN.

IPv6 addressing is also now available with a number of access options.

Integrate into your existing IP infrastructure
IP WAN is run on our private network infrastructure, separate and secure from the internet. Your existing data networking infrastructure can be easily integrated onto the IP WAN network, providing IP connectivity between your premises.

Extend your coverage for mobile access
IP Wireless provides high-speed, secure and affordable mobile connectivity to internal business applications available on the IP WAN.

Work with the best
The Telstra Next IP® network core provides 99.999% reliability, and when fully scaled, the IP/MPLS core has up to 92Tbps per node capacity. This intelligent network supports dynamic Class of Service (CoS), offering six levels of traffic and application prioritisation, including a real-time priority queue. IP WAN is based on internet protocol (IP) – an open international standard for data networks – and provides businesses with a wide range of security features.

Features

Meet your business growth aspirations

IP WAN core features include:

• Any-to-any connectivity
• Scalability
• Security
• Class of service (CoS) across sites or applications
• Strong service level agreements (SLA)
• Virtualisation of IP services.
• Now with the option of IPv6 addressing

Access your network remotely and connect to the internet using optional value added services (VAS) such as managed firewalls, application hosting and email.

IP WAN will support any IP based application, such as:

• Intranets
• Extranets
• E-commerce or other business management applications
• Application Service Providers (ASP)
• Communities of interest (COIN)
• Branch office network connectivity
• Wireless remote network access solutions including: email, messaging and internet access (with appropriate security features).

Choose the right Class of Service (CoS) option for your business
Choose either Dynamic (CoS) or Data Transfer of Service for each site connected to the IP WAN network, based on the performance you need and the price you can afford.

Dynamic CoS (D-CoS)
D-CoS provides six levels of traffic prioritisation, the highest level providing a real-time priority queue that is optimised for latency (delay) and jitter intolerant applications such as voice over IP (VOIP) and video conferencing. Five additional CoS levels allow you to further prioritise other applications such as Citrix, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, email and the internet.

Data Transfer of Service
This is suited to most IT applications that require good interactive performance but can tolerate minor network latency such as email, database access, file sharing and downloads.

IP Wireless option
You can extend the coverage of IP WAN with IP Wireless, which provides mobile coverage with all the mobility benefits of connecting to your IP Network. It utilises a Next G® network or Telstra GPRS connection and provides a seamless inter-networking experience for accessing applications. You can have a single point of accountability through this integrated, managed network infrastructure.