ACTIVE Network Design and Communication

Active Network Solutions have a wealth of knowledge and experience in delivering network solutions to many types of industry sectors. Below is an assortment of the types of project we can undertake.

• Structured cabling and cable management: Active Networks can wire your work premises with category 5 cabling. In particular, we can manage the logical unification of disparate cabling technologies which may otherwise cause discord in your network.
• Wide Area Networking: Installing a Wide Area Network (WAN) solution unleashes the full potential of your business. WAN solutions allow you to connect to regional offices and remote sites. In addition to planning and installing a WAN, Active Networks will ensure that performance, speed and reliability are maintained and optimised.
• Remote Access: Increase your productivity and save money by offering your employees remote access to your system, allowing them to work off-site, on-the-move, or from home.
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs): Active Networks are a leading provider of VPN technology. Virtual Private Networks offer a secure and inexpensive way to connect remote users, offices or mobile employees to your network.
• High-speed cable/ADSL connections: Active Network Solutions will actively seek to provide you with the fastest connection possible to the Internet. This will not only benefit you in surfing the web, but will enable fast download of files and off-site maintenance of your system by our support team. ADSL can be used to facilitate remote access and can also be used to create a link to remote offices via VPNs.

ACTIVE Network Security Services

In recent times, companies have been forced to consider the increasing security risks to their internal systems.

How safe is your network? Do you have concerns about data and application integrity? Do you have a failsafe plan in place to prevent 'hacking'?

Active Network Solutions can help you protect your business. We provide a portfolio of network security services:

• Managed firewalls: This service includes set up and installation, monitoring and management, logging and reporting, policy management, firewall updates and policy review.
• Network vulnerability and penetration testing for server and PCs: This service provides a thorough audit of your current security infrastructure. We will identify any potential vulnerability in your servers and network topology. We analyse your firewalls, routers, and switches; assess your operating systems; and conduct vulnerability probes and penetration tests.
• Network intrusion detection: We monitor packets on your network wire to detect attacks, misuse, abuse and anomalous behaviour.
• Operating system hardening: Hardening of operating systems is the first step towards safeguarding your network from intrusion. Workstations and servers typically arrive from a vendor installed with a multitude of development tools and utilities, which can provide potential back-door access to your system. Hardening of an operating system involves the removal of all non essential tools, utilities and other system administration options, any of which could be used to ease a hacker's path to your network.
• Security policy development: We can help you develop a comprehensive policy to safeguard you network and plan for future network initiatives.

Planning and implementing a secure solution for your network has become an absolute necessity for every business. If you have any doubts about your network security, don't delay any further. Call Active Network Solutions immediately to discuss your requirements.

ACTIVE Software Development

Few businesses are so standard that they can meet all their software needs off the shelf. You will rarely find a piece of software that does exactly what you want.

Active Networks specialise in providing bespoke software solutions and general programming services to small and medium sized businesses. We understand how difficult it can be for smaller companies to obtain affordable access to reliable software and programming services. In response, we offer a professional solution that can be tailor-made to suit most budgets.

Remember, a package that does exactly what you want saves time and money. How much time could you save by automating manual tasks? How much money could you save by interfacing back office data into Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel and Access and printing only what you need?

To discuss your software requirements with Active Network Solutions, please contact us directly.

For an example of some of the larger application development projects we have undertaken, view the case studies.

ACTIVE Web Services

Active Network Solutions provide a full range of web services. You will benefit from working with a professional and experienced web team without paying the substantial overheads of a large web developer.

Our range of services encompasses:

• Requirements gathering and site planning: We work with you to establish your site’s purpose and goals, the scope of the project, the target audience, online competition, types of content, interactive features, maintenance needs etc.
• Specification Process: Working with the requirements, we create a written specification detailing site content, structure and functionality.
• Design: Taking a user-centric approach, our designers will create original designs based on the findings of the requirements gathering process and the demands of required functionality.

We can also assist you with design advice on how to build usable/accessible websites, and conduct usability evaluations/tests of your existing web site to assess current problems.

• Site implementation: When we have agreed on the specification and the design, we will build the site.
• Domain name registration.
• Web hosting.

ACTIVE Training Services

Active Network Solutions can provide training on request. We can offer:

• Training on the Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• System management training.
• Training on bespoke software created by Active Network Solutions.
• Creation of manuals and online training aids for bespoke software created by Active Network Solutions.