In addition, we offer a variety of service options for WANs and LANs, including priority on-call or fixed-price annual service contracts that are tailored to meet your specific needs. Bulk rates are also available, e-mail sales@techsolutions.com.au for more information on the rates available.

Designing LANs and WANs
Our technical staff have extensive expertise at designing network solutions for multiple sites (WANs) or single-site multi-server/multi-workstation applications (LANs). We create a comprehensive description for the project and make implementation recommendations and suggestions for increased network speed. Whether we handle only the design or both design and installation, you're assured of cost-effective solutions built upon proven technology. We can also diagram and recommend changes to existing WAN and LAN installations.
We will document the problems and analyse network protocols and reports to resolve them.

Installing & Configuring New Networks
Territory Technology Solutions design, install and configure new WAN and LAN systems. We work with you to develop a predefined statement of work that specifies all aspects of the network, and then install and configure it to provide optimal performance.

Addressing Administration Needs
Territory Technology Solutions can fulfil administration needs on your current network equipment. For WANs, that may include objectives such as allowing traffic, creating access lists, enabling a port, and adding a route. With LANs, typical administration activities involve adding new users, restoring files from tape backup, and installing applications.

Keeping You Informed
Our reporting services ensure that you're receiving the desired performance from your network, identify security breaches and provide information for other internal and external uses. We monitor WANs to create reports on traffic throughput, congestion and to link statistics. With LANs, we report on factors such as server speed and resource availability.

Troubleshooting Existing Networks
If your company's WAN or LAN is performing below your expectations, or if you're encountering consistent problems that your current vendors can't seem to solve, our Professional Services Group will help to identify and remedy the situation.

As it is most commonly defined, a virtual private network (VPN) allows two or more private networks to be connected over a publicly accessed network - the Internet. In a sense, VPNs are similar to wide area networks (WAN) or a securely encrypted tunnel, but the key feature of VPNs is that they are able to use public networks like the Internet rather than rely on expensive, private leased lines. At they same time, VPNs have the same security and encryption features as a private network, while taking the advantage of the economies of scale and remote accessibility of large public networks.

A VPN is an especially effective means of exchanging critical information for employees working remotely in branch offices, at home, or on the road. It can securely deliver information between vendors, suppliers, and business partners, who may have a huge physical distance between them. Since companies no longer have to invest in the actual infrastructure themselves, they can reduce their operational costs by outsourcing network services to service providers. VPNs can also reduce costs by eliminating the need for long-distance telephone charges to obtain remote access, as clients need only call into the service provider's nearest access point.

VPNs today are set up a variety of ways, and can be built over ATM, frame relay, and X.25 technologies. However, the most popular current method is to deploy IP-based VPNs, which offer more flexibility and ease of connectivity. Since most corporate intranets use IP or Web technologies, IP-VPNs can more transparently extend these capabilities over a wide network. An IP-VPN link can be set up anywhere in the world between two endpoints, and the IP network automatically handles the traffic routing.

Privacy and protection of data is of utmost importance when deploying services over the Internet, where it can be vulnerable to attacks or illegal entry. Secure IP-VPNs are networks that are secured by encryption and authentication, and layered on an existing IP network. In response to security issues, the Internet Engineering Task Force (ietf.org) has developed the IP Security (IPSec) protocol suite, a set of IP extensions that offer strong data authentication and privacy guarantees.

Although security features differ from product to product, most IP-VPN providers generally private network tunnelling through the IP backbone, data encryption, authentication proxying, firewall, and spam filtering.

VPN products fall into three broad categories: hardware-based systems, firewall-based systems, and standalone application packages. Most hardware-based VPNs are encrypting routers, which are considered secure and simple to use, as they are the nearest thing to "plug-and-play" equipment available. However, they may not be as flexible as software-based systems, which are ideal in situations where both endpoints of a VPN are not controlled by the same organisation, which is typical for business partnerships or when client support is required. Firewall-based VPNs are considered among the most secure, as they take advantage of the firewall's existing security mechanisms. However, if the firewall is already loaded, performance issues may pop up.

With Territory Technology Solutions being able access products from many different vendors we are able to provide a variety of solutions as mentioned above in both the hardware and software fields.