Home : What We Do : Hybrid Wan
Hybrid Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Our leased line-based and fully managed wireless networks offer end-to-end connectivity for both the access and backhaul elements of your network.
Wireless connectivity has many advantages in overcoming the issues surrounding new sites, and the lengthy timescales and excessive costs associated with laying fibre over long distances. Remote connectivity, rural connectivity, faster speeds and greater resilience are just a few of the benefits.
The easiest way to describe a Wide Area Network is a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area – larger than that of a Local Area Network, or LAN, which tend to be smaller and within the building. Typically, a WAN is made up of two or more local area networks (LANs). Computers connected to a wide-area network are often connected through public networks, such as the telephone system, or an MLL Telecom dedicated leased line.
Generally, the WANs operated by MLL, on behalf of its clients, are private networks for the use of the customer only. However, some of our customers in the Public Sector are using MLL’s cutting edge networks to offer extra value, public access services.
But, while there is always a solution favouring our microwave radio over fibre, a more practical approach is often to use a mix of both – known as a hybrid network, to ensure perfect business continuity.
Microwave radio transmission lets you overcome obstacles, distances and extremes of weather. It is easily augmented for fault tolerance. Add fibre and you have strength in breadth. The intrinsic security of microwave backhaul with its superior transmission characteristics, coupled with the certainty of fibre means network delivery anywhere, be it the middle of a city or providing powerful remote or rural connectivity, at Gigabit speeds.