wide area networks

How important is your networks reliability?  Whether you are connecting two offices or seeking a global network solution for your multi-national, let a Convergent Telecom business solutions consultant recommend the right solution for your business.

• Digital Private Line
• Ethernet / LAN Extension
• Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Point-to-Point Wireless 
• IP SEC / SSL VPN

ProConnect

To stay competitive, businesses with a distributed workforce need a communication solution to increase employee productivity and collaboration across all locations and save IT costs.

The ProConnect service from Bell provides a reliable fully-managed wide area network service which is supported by the most aggressive service level agreements and advanced redundancy options in Canada.

Backed by continued investments to maintain our leading private MPLS infrastructure and technical expertise, the ProConnect service supports emerging applications and business growth, while helping business's optimize IT costs and realize typical savings of 60-80% compared to legacy WAN technologies or 15% compared to in house managed IP VPNs.

The ProConnect service allows customers to tailor their service to meet the specific needs of each of their company locations and comes with the following:

• A  wide range of bandwidth options (64Kbps – 1 Gig) that include IP access and a customer edge (CE) router
  
  • High Performance package - Best suited for main/large offices or for critical branch offices that are outside of Bell Territory
  • Enhanced package - Best suited for critical branch offices in Bell territory
  • Value package (NEW)- Best suited for small offices or remote sites with data or transactional applications
• A simple, fully meshed network topology
• A full suite of flexible options and service features:
  • class of service, class of service on demand 
  • bandwidth on demand 
  • network options (multiple VPNs, extranets connection to payment processor etc.) 
  • management & reporting options 
  • diversity options 
  • DHCP CE server 
  • Wireless CE router 
  • shared Internet Access 
  • Flex CE (Option for customer to own equipment Bell managed)
• A national, bilingual, single point of contact (SPOC) help desk available to provide service assurance and support 24/7/365

Benefits of Proconnect:

• Extensive connection speeds - from 64K to1GB

• Bandwidth on demand

• Unmatched reach

• Private and secure

• Future proof

• Affordable, predictable monthly prices

• Optimizes information sharing 

• Extranet options

• Shared internet access available

• Traffic separation with multiple VPN's

• Load sharing

• Global connections 

why go proconnect?

• Reliable and secure (private) infrastructure. Allows consolidation of multiple applications (e.g. voice & data).

• Eliminates the redundancy of multiple networks and wasted bandwidth.

• Flexibility - offers greater control to optimize bandwidth and class of service to reflect changing business needs.

• Full-featured solution providing best-in-class quality and functionality at an affordable price.

• Bell is committed to IP innovation and will continue to lead in the market in development and deployment of IP/MPLS services.