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Integrating network solutions, management and technical support services 24x7, our expertise spans a range of technologies, turning technology into effective solutions, improving productivity, efficiency, and delivering real ROI. Fully accredited with our partners, we deliver secure, high-performance solutions. Clients include the largest SPs, Enterprise, and the Public Sector.
Partnered with Allot, Blue Coat Systems, BlueCat Networks, Juniper, Emerson/Avocent, Barracuda, Meru, LogRhythm, Alcatel-Lucent, Zeus and Xangati, our delivery of complex network solutions using leading-edge technology products is backed by our 24-hour support technical assistance centre.
We supply and support organisations UK-wide with network security, IPAM and DNS/DHCP solutions, also network management and monitoring, broadband and bandwidth management solutions, appliance- and cloud-based URL filtering, virus management, server and application load-balancing, anti-spam, wireless LAN, logging and SIEM solutions, and cost-effective and high–performance routers and switches.
Contact information
Address
1-3 Merietts Court
Long Ashton Business Park
Long Ashton
Bristol
BS41 9LW
Telephone: +44 (0)1275 393 382
Email: sales@ip-performance.co.uk
Website: http://www.ip-performance.co.uk
Press Releases
Recent IP Performance projects addressing and solving Local Government issues
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Case Studies
Invensys APV deploys Allot Bandwidth Management
The Invensys Group had identified a need to enhance security on their WAN and also wanted to find out more about network use and status. By deploying Allot NetEnforcers, Invensys have been able to identify applications that should not have been running across the WAN and take the necessary corrective action. They can now manage overused circuits, track usage, block or limit web streaming and have the granular applications control that the project required.
Heriot-Watt Blue Coat MACH5 Case Study
Heriot-Watt University Selects Blue Coat MACH5 for WAN Optimisation, Web Security and Policy Control, and successfully implements an effective Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) between Edinburgh and Dubai.
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University of Bath Allot Communications NetEnforcer/NetExplorer Case Study
The University of Bath have chosen an Allot Communications DPI solution to ensure fair and equitable distribution of bandwidth across their high-speed data network.
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Newport City Council Zeus Technology ZXTM Case Study
NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL instigated a £1.6m ($2.9m) drive to comply with Welsh Assembly e-government initiatives. The requirement was to increase the availability and performance of its IT systems. To achieve this, Newport selected Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM)
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University of Westminster LogRhythm Case Study
University of Westminster awards IP Performance and LogRhythm with log management, analysis and event management contract
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APV Allot Communications NetEnforcer/NetXplorer Case Study
Invensys APV deploys an Allot Communications Bandwidth Management solution to baseline and control bandwidth usage across the shared Invensys corporate WAN infrastructure.
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De Lane Lea Avocent HMX Case Study
When De Lane Lea requested help to evaluate and select a high performance, high-bandwidth KVM product to optimise the workflow in their digital media sound FX studios, IP Performance were quick to propose and demonstrate the Avocent HMX solution.
1008-DLL-IPPCS-CHA-EN - De Lane Lea Case Study.pdf 78.11 kB
Pinewood Studios Avocent HMX Case Study
IP Performance were delighted to provide equipment and services to Pinewood Studios Group for a Proof of Concept (PoC) trial when the world-leading studio wanted to evaluate an Avocent HMX switched KVMoIP solution for their Post Production facilities at their studio complex in Iver Heath.
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Whitepapers
IP Performance White Paper - Alcatel-Lucent VPN Firewall Brick Partitions for Hosted Environments
Telco and Service Providers offering managed services to ʻVirtualʼ Service Providers (VSP) or Enterprise customers commonly suffer issues wherein multiple hardware devices are required to provide those customers contracted services whilst maintaining both security and segmentation across the true physical environment.
In this White Paper, Andy Millett, IP Performance support engineer and security product specialist, sets out how the Alcatel-Lucent Brick firewall and SMS solution can be used to create multiple secure, scalable and highly-available virtual firewalls, and how Telcos and ISPs can then offer VSPs multiple partitioned environments as managed services.
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Avocent White Paper - Power Distribution Considerations for Data Center Racks
This paper discusses the considerations that need to be made while choosing the appropriate power distribution products at the rack level. Interestingly enough, several of these considerations also help data centre operators manage and control the largest portion of data centre power consumption, which are the actual IT loads.
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Avocent White Paper: Managing the Virtualized Data Center - Avocent’s Role in VMware-Enabled Environments
Many IT organisations are, to varying degrees, implementing VMware technology to create multiple virtual servers on selected physical servers. Use of these virtual servers provides a variety of benefits – including reduced capital spending on hardware, reduced demands on power and cooling capacity, and more flexible allocation of processing capacity.
This article discusses tools and approaches that can be used to both overcome the limitations of VMware’s tools and also to manage the complexity within a partially virtualised data centre, concluding that these approaches will also enable virtualisation to be more broadly deployed.
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BlueCat Networks White Paper - Realising secure networks by overcoming complexity: The Proteus IP Address Management System
The continual increase of complexity, and the adoption of Voice over IP (VoIP) on many corporate networks, has meant that most enterprise and carrier-class networks now require the additional management overhead previously only found in the largest networks. This management need is further compounded by the requirement for corporations to explore or implement IPv6 compatible networks to ensure capacity and service over the next decade. VoIP integrations generally double the number of IP addresses inside some networks simply due to the fact that each user with a computer has a phone. Management of IP resources can be severely restricted by inadequate design in the provisioning of IP space and services that can directly impact corporate growth. Existing IP Address Management (IPAM) solutions on the market are typically software-based and require extensive installation and integration, coupled with licensing expenses, yielding a solution that is outside most corporate budgets. Manual or home grown solutions to tackle IP address management often fall short and carry a high cost associated with labor-intensive processes and knowledge transfer.
BlueCat Networks, a leader in dedicated DNS and DHCP appliances, has developed its Proteus IPAM Appliance to help organizations design and scale IP networks effectively. This white paper describes a system which was designed to integrate DNS and IP as well as moving other important components such as deployment and server management into their own components in a unique “Multi-Core” architecture, and which represents a new level of business-driven interactive network control and monitoring that brings IPAM into conformance with business requirements.
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BlueCat Networks White Paper - Getting Ready for IPv6: Six Things You Need to Know to Prepare for the Transition
IPv6 is the next-generation Internet Protocol and is designated as the
successor to IPv4, which has been the Internet’s main communication
protocol for over 20 years. With IPv4 address space almost depleted, the
move to IPv6 is necessary to allow the Internet – and the global economy
it supports – to continue to grow.
The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be a significant network changeover and
a milestone in the history of the Internet. The design, implementation and
configuration of IPv6 networks will be a complex process, requiring significant
changes to current communication systems and management processes. Not
only will IPv6 involve a significant overhaul to existing infrastructure, it will also
require a new approach to how IP address space is managed.
This white paper will look at what you need to know to get ready for IPv6 and
dispel some of the common myths surrounding the new protocol. You will
read about the business case for transitioning to IPv6 and the practical steps
you need to take now to prepare. We will also discuss the role of IP Address
Management (IPAM) in ensuring a smooth and successful transition.
IPv6-Getting_Ready_WP.pdf 443.75 kB
Products
Avocent
An Emerson Network Power Company - Network Infrastructure ManagementAvocent delivers a common interface for managing your physical and virtual infrastructure, including power control, service processor, serial console management.and KVMoIP making it easy to ensure 24*7 availability of the resources your organisation relies on. IP Performance are an Avocent Corporation "Take Command®" Solutions Provider Elite Partner, and are Avocent Certified Deployment Specialists.
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Bluecat Networks
Smart, Simple, Scalable IP Address ManagementBluecat Networks specialise in dedicated DNS and DHCP server appliances, and in IPAM (IP Address Management) Solutions. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and related services like DNS and DHCP have become the foundation of today's modern, complex IP voice and data networks. Without IP addresses and DHCP/DNS, there is no network and business would be crippled or worse. In the past 10 years organizations of all sizes have employed simplistic approaches and primitive tools to manage, monitor and administer IP addresses and services. They required constant manual intervention, while still failing to provide audit and reporting capabilities needed to truly manage the network. With growing volume, the complexity of hybrid server networks, the addition of diverse IP devices and applications to the network, administrators needed a pro-active, automated approach to IP address management (IPAM).
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Alcatel Lucent
Network Infrastructure - At the Speed of IdeasAlcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver secure voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move.
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Allot Communications
Bandwidth Management SolutionsAllot Communications' line of products includes the NetEnforcer® family of LAN/WAN devices, which offer best-of-class traffic shaping technology for QoS/SLA enforcement, real-time IP monitoring and IP accounting; and NetXplorer, a centralized management system for network business intelligence which offers streamlined global visibility and control, insightful reporting and analysis, and frontline security for any network. They also offer the Service Gateway (SG-Omega, SG-Sigma) series of arrier-class, ATCA-compliamt, modular DPI platforms and Subscriber Management Platform (SMP) for Service Providers.
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Barracuda Networks
Reclaim Your Network: Content Security, Networking & Application Delivery, Storage & Data ProtectionBarracuda Networks, Inc. is the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances. Barracuda Networks also provides world-class IM protection, application server load balancing and message archiving appliances. Barracuda Networks solutions deliver easy to use, comprehensive protection against spam, spyware, viruses, and other IT infrastructure threats.
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Blue Coat Systems
Web Security, Wan Optimisation and Cloud ServicesBlue Coat ProxySG, AV and PacketShaper appliances are available in a broad range of configurations and are typically deployed in enterprise branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers as well as in global service provider organisations. The appliances provide intelligent points of control to secure Web communications and accelerate delivery of business applications (with MACH5 acceleration technology). Just as important, Blue Coat gives IT organisations visibility and very granular control over security and performance, so that policies can set based on who, what, where, when, and how users and applications communicate with each other.
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Bluesocket
Gracefully Scale Your Network with vWLANBluesocket is a leader in open, standards based enterprise mobility solutions. Bluesocket's secure wireless network portfolio brings trust and simplicity to increasingly complex enterprise networks.
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Juniper Networks
It's Time To Build A New Network - Network Infrastructure and SecurityService providers, enterprises, governments, and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the individual needs of their users, services, and applications. Juniper specialise in Routing, Switching, Security and Application Acceleration.
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LogRhythm
Comply. Secure. Optimise - Enterprise-class Log & Event ManagementLogRhythm provides a comprehensive, fully integrated, enterprise-class log management, log analysis and event management solution that empowers organisations to comply with regulations, secure their networks and optimise IT operations. By automating the collection, organisation, analysis, archival and recovery of all log data, LogRhythm enables enterprises to easily comply with log data retention regulations while simultaneously gaining valuable, timely and actionable insights into security, availability, performance and audit issues within their infrastructure. LogRhythm solutions are noted for their completeness, useful analytics, ease of use and rapid time to value.
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Meru Networks
Powering the All-Wireless EnterpriseMeru Networks develops and markets wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry-leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and local, state and federal government agencies. Meru's award-winning Air Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment, and its WLAN System is the only solution on the market that delivers predictable bandwidth and over-the-air quality of service with the reliability, scalability and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure.
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Xangati
Virtualisation Infrastructure Performance Management - VM-to-Anything VisibilityXangati is the leading provider of infrastructure performance management solutions that deliver comprehensive, real-time visibility empowering superior design, optimisation and troubleshooting to accelerate virtualisation initiatives with confidence.
Xangati delivers the leading infrastructure performance management solution designed to overcome VM stall and accelerate the virtualisation of both business-critical applications and desktops. Xangati products leverage and extend the functionality of existing virtualisation management suites VI admins use every day. Xangati is different from all other performance management solutions through its patented VM-to-Anything visibility—which continuously tracks every VM and anything and everything it communicates with including applications so peak activity can be seen instead of averages. Xangati VM-to-Anything visibility presents insights in an unprecedented real-time, continuous UI with over 150 metrics to answer the important question that server metrics do not—what is a given VM doing right now?
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Zeus Technology
Fast, Scalable, Elastic - Virtual Load Balancing and Traffic ManagementZeus Technology develops application traffic management software, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them faster, more reliable, more secure and easy to manage. As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or even virtualized environments.
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