Connectivity & Managed Network Services
Reliable Managed Network Services to keep your business connected
Connecting your users to the business-critical applications and services they require, securely, reliably, and from anywhere, is a 24/7 challenge. Coupled with evolving customer demands and the ability to access information and services seamlessly, it’s clear that connectivity is key.
What you need is a partner that you trust to get on with the job – no dramas, no surprises and, most importantly, no performance problems.
Our Connectivity and Managed Network Services are designed to take the burden of network connectivity off your hands and let you focus on running your business. With Nasstar as your partner, you can put more time into innovating and meeting your business objectives, while we deliver value back to your organisation in the form of optimised connectivity.
Taking an internet-first approach, we use a combination of high-performance public and private services to deliver intelligent, ‘application-aware’ networks designed with the user experience front-of-mind.
With proactive, round-the-clock management and monitoring services, we ensure your essential data and workforce enablement tools are secure, optimised and available whenever you need them.
The result? A secure and flexible platform designed, delivered, and managed to meet your evolving business needs.
Intelligent Connected Cloud (ICC)
Connectivity from Nasstar is delivered via our ICC core network which has been designed to seamlessly and resiliently link each connectivity solution we deploy, providing you with a cloud-first connectivity framework that future-proofs your IT environment.
Intelligent Connected Cloud (ICC) optimises the user experience with high-speed connectivity, guaranteed availability, and an integrated security fabric. With ICC, you can embrace cloud adoption and migration more effectively, with a robust and dedicated connectivity fabric that allows optimal transformation in your organisation.
Nasstar’s ICC network complies with public sector industry regulations and standards regarding data privacy and security. This efficiently reduces the burden on customers to maintain networks that adhere to their industry regulatory compliance, resulting in lower risk networks and network operations.
Managed Network Services
At Nasstar, we go beyond basic management to offer comprehensive solutions that include network optimisation, network infrastructure management, and ongoing support for all the critical functions that keep your systems running smoothly.
Network optimisation
We monitor traffic, optimise device configuration, update firewall policies, and troubleshoot connectivity issues, to ensure best network performance and maximum uptime.
Network infrastructure management
We take care of ongoing tasks like remote software patching and firmware updates to minimise system failures and security vulnerabilities.
Proactive monitoring service
Our 24/7 proactive monitoring service keeps a close watch on your network with real-time alerts that notify us of certain actions and thresholds.
We’ll work closely with your internal teams to review network activity and infrastructure performance to identify improvements. Our expertise will help you allocate resources effectively and align technology to your business needs.
Leigh Walgate
Managing Director (Connectivity) at Nasstar
"At Nasstar, we understand the challenges of getting the right connectivity to the right places and the key role that it plays in your business. It’s central to everything, from ensuring your users have access to what they need, to enabling IoT or next-gen connected technologies and helping your customers access your services.
"This is why we offer a variety of connectivity and managed network services that align with your business requirements, enabling you to ensure seamless operations and enhanced network performance."
Our expertise
With more than 25 years in the connectivity and managed network services space, we’re well positioned to support businesses with a variety of networking projects and solutions. We have worked with customers to implement both ‘out-the-box' and bespoke managed network solutions that enable them to meet business objectives and future-proof their organisations.
Our managed networks team takes pride in constantly learning and innovating, ensuring the solutions we provide to our customers are best-in-class and suitable for the outlined business requirements. With our unique approach, you can utilise both public and private network services to enhance your network and deliver a consistently high-class user experience.
Nasstar’s choice of networking partners, as a Cisco Gold Partner and Fortinet MSSP Expert Partner, allows for the use of advanced network connectivity and infrastructure technologies to build a redundant ICC Core and Access network to all customer locations, ensuring minimum network downtime. Coupled with our Managed WAN service, our customers are guaranteed a high level of reliability and performance. So, whatever the stage of your connectivity journey, we can help you achieve:
- Faster response times to operational changes and disruptions
- Proactive processes that prevent issues before they escalate
- Cost savings through automation, improved capacity planning, and resource forecasting
- Monitoring and troubleshooting of both physical hardware and virtual machines
Our Managed Network Services provide in-depth insights into the utilisation and capacity of a customer network, including information about how the network is performing and how it should be evolved to best support the demands of their business. By partnering with us, we’ll help you empower your customers to make the right decisions for investment or rationalisation.
Why choose Nasstar?
At Nasstar, we understand that your choice of managed network service providers is vast, but our extensive experience, range of connectivity options and unique network supplier relationships is what sets us apart.
With multiple managed network solutions delivered successfully, we can better understand your needs and apply previous expertise to your solution, delivering additional value and a more seamless deployment.
Our managed network solutions team will work with you to create a well-informed connectivity plan that encompasses the current challenges you’re facing and how to rectify them with a future-proof network solution.
Global service centre
24/7 proactive management and support
Automated IT checks and maintenance tasks
An average 25% reduction in IT budgets for our customers
500+ accredited technical engineers
Adherence to ITIL and Prince2 frameworks
High availability ICC Core Network
Established partnerships with Cisco, Fortinet and others
Trusted by
We’ve worked with several businesses to adapt and upgrade their networks, enabling them to ensure smooth operations and future proof against evolving needs.
Nick Denton
Network Operations at Sports Direct
"In the ever-changing economy where retailers feel the effects of consumers spending less on the high street and buying more online, Nasstar’s speed and flexibility ensure we have the right connectivity to meet our business plans."
FAQs
Managed network service providers support businesses with their networks and connectivity, ensuring they are functioning correctly and delivering value to the business. Typically managed network services providers offer a suite of networking solutions that can be remotely operated, monitored, and maintained by the managed service provider (MSP).
Managed network services providers are responsible for the operation, maintenance, and monitoring of your network, whether it’s a managed WAN, LAN, Wireless LAN, SD-WAN or other networking solution. The MSP will ensure any networking solution is designed to seamlessly link sites and users, offering enhanced flexibility and adaptability.
At Nasstar, we provide managed network services with service-level agreements (SLAs) for customers, ensuring all parties understand the performance and quality metrics that the managed service will be adhering to.
Depending on the specific requirements of your managed network, Nasstar can support you with the design, installation, provisioning, commissioning and ongoing maintenance, management, administration, and optimisation of your network connectivity and network devices from end to end.
Managed network services offer a variety of benefits for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Firstly, the main benefit of using a managed network service is that users have access to centralised services, information, and applications typically hosted at a variety of different locations. This means your internal IT teams can be free from the network management burden and can instead focus on high-value business activities.
Some of the other key benefits of managed network services include:
- Access to networking expertise without additional internal headcount
- Increased operational efficiency
- Enterprise networking issues handled quickly and appropriately
- Proactive approach network problems from disrupting business operations
- Reduced risk when working with an expert to try new technologies
- Reduced operational costs
Almost any type of business in any industry can benefit from managed network solutions and services, whether you’re a large international corporation or an SME. If your business has any of the following objectives or challenges, you can effectively benefit from partnering with managed network services providers like Nasstar:
- You want to boost security or handle vast amounts of sensitive data
- You lack internal IT expertise or don’t have the budget to hire someone
- You don’t have huge amounts of time to dedicate to network management
- You need to put a controlled, predictable IT budget in place
- You need to effectively maintain compliance or adhere to regulatory requirements
- You want to future-proof your connectivity and remain competitive
Nasstar’s Managed Network Services are designed using a variety of levels to address the unique needs of customers in many different sectors including government, healthcare, finance, legal, industrial and retail.
Our managed services are continuously evolving with the demands of our customers and the fast-paced nature of the industry in which we operate.
We have the flexibility to develop customised products and services for customers whose requirements fall outside of the available managed network service packages. By working closely together, we can help you experience a very specific service that delivers the outcomes you require to improve your business.
Managed network services offered by an MSP typically employ security experts who stay up to date on the latest threats and security trends so they can work to best practices and relevant network security compliance regulations.
Regular network device software updates and patching ensure the latest security patches are applied, reducing vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers.
Our core managed network services network includes advanced firewalls, IPS, and other security appliances to protect both us and our customers from threats.
Our Managed Network Services deliver 24/7 enterprise-class systems management to your network connectivity, based on our highly resilient ICC network and dedicated Service Desk engineering teams. We are driven by SLAs to ensure minimal disruption to your end users’ productivity due to networking issues, maximising the quality of your experience. Our managed network services include:
- 24/7 proactive monitoring Incident management
- Software security patch management
- Secure WAN connectivity to private and public cloud
- Service/change requests
- Service delivery management
- Centralised management
- Network performance dashboards
- Performance analysis and reporting
Yes, we’re uniquely placed to offer market leading resilient circuits not only right across the UK, but specifically into the Hull area as well.
