Altium Capital create new services with Exponential-e’s VPLS
Layer 2 VPLS-cloud provides flat LAN between multiple sites
Exponential-e, the UK’s most established provider of Ethernet solutions today announced that it has deployed a VPLS-enabled next-generation-network for Altium Capital, a leading, independent, pan-European investment-banking group. The nationwide solution replaces a patchwork of legacy technologies and meets the customer’s need for a service-oriented network with guaranteed quality of service and capable of scaling with the company as it expands.
Altium Capital provide a range of investment banking services to corporate clients and to the private equity firms and public market institutions which finance them. In the last twelve months the company has raised over £370 million in IPOs and secondary fundraisings and completed 45 deals with a total value of £1.6 billion. As a result of incredible growth, the company’s existing network infrastructure was quickly becoming obsolete.
Dale Willemburg, IT Manager Altium Capital said “Exponential-e replaced our legacy DSL connections and layer 3 IP-VPN with a scalable layer-2 cloud. They’ve taken away costly duplication. Network services previously working in a silo are now plugged into our new VPLS cloud and are available throughout our wide area network.” He added “Exponential-e were able to prioritise traffic by type intelligently and fully backed up with service level guarantees”.
Altium Capital now benefit from a four-site VPLS wide-area-network built at layer 2. Their new VPLS cloud gives a simple-to-manage Ethernet interface throughout a LAN-like WAN and allows new services and new sites to be quickly and easily introduced on a plug and play basis.
The layer 2 network is switched, rather than routed, putting Altium Capital in direct control and enabling them to make changes to their own network as and when they want. Being protocol-agnostic, all protocols and suitable customer premise equipment can be easily accommodated.
The total solution includes Powerserve Internet, Exponential-e’s high-performance business-grade Internet service. The advantage to Altium is that it can advertise its services to the outside world via multiple ISPs without having to manage each one directly. Exponential-e’s unique and proprietary routing and traffic distribution algorithm manages and optimises Exponential-e’s multiple tier 1 transit providers and several hundred peering relationships to ensure traffic takes the fastest possible routes across the Internet at every second of the day.
Dale went on to say “We’ve seen a dramatic increase in throughput of between 10 and 50 fold”. He added “We’ve already been able to introduce VoIP and video conferencing to all our sites using a single VPLS instance into the cloud.”
Simon Acott, Sales Director, Exponential-e commented “We were able to provide Altium Capital with more cost-effective flexibility and control than that being offered by the 12 other companies bidding. Our layer 2 VPLS solution, intelligent QoS and tight pre-sales and project management is what they tell us set us apart”.
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About Altium Capital
Altium Capital is a fully integrated investment banking and securities group providing stock broking and advisory services across a range of sectors. It has a European office network providing cross-border capabilities and is wholly owned by its 140 employees. This ownership structure, almost unique in an investment bank of Altium Capital’s size and market presence, provides a platform from which the firm is able to distinguish itself and its offering to clients. Further information can be found at www.Altium.co.uk
About Exponential-e
Exponential-e launched its VPLS service in 2006 and was the first service provider in the UK to do so. The company designs and deploys bespoke network solutions, connecting company LANs regionally, nationally and internationally to create global office networks. Customer networks are created within Exponential-e’s VPLS-enabled NGN (known as the Service Creation Platform or SCP) and do not touch the Internet, ensuring they are totally private.
In addition to fast, high capacity, flexible connectivity solutions, companies also access a range of enterprise services and applications which are hosted on the network. Managed and unmanaged storage, voice services, video conferencing, surveillance and colocation, plus some sector specific services, are all available through a single access circuit onto the SCP.
As well as its national UK network, Exponential-e has a direct connection into New York, offering desktop to desktop transatlantic services. The company also has a number of strategic alliances in place, with like-minded Ethernet carriers, enabling the company to offer end to end Ethernet across most of the world.
Exponential-e’s network solutions are fast, flexible and secure – giving customers responsive, scaleable networks which reduce risks and costs while enhancing their business performance.
For more information contact:
+ 44 (0) 20 7096 4098.
helen.simpson@exponential-e.com