Specialist Skills

Services

Specialist Skills

  • LAN/WAN design & installation
  • Network security
  • Wireless
  • Disaster recovery
  • End point technologies
  • Consultancy

Network Design & Installation

LAN (Local Area Network) – The heart of data transit in today’s modern internal net-works. From simple small business networks to the most sophisticated high speed Enterprise designs incorporating modern ‘Trunking’, ‘VLAN’ and other dynamic routing technologies. WAN (Wide Area Networking) – This is the network outside of your LAN and will include the internet, remote users and other site offices and links to your core business infrastruc-ture. Here security and design is fundamental to efficient external networking from basic broadband to the most complex delivery of connectivity solutions and security platforms such as site-to-site VPNs.

Network Security & Endpoint Technology

  • Firewalls, Unified Threat Management, Intrusion Detection.
  • Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Scanning.
  • Antivirus, Antispam, Antimalware deployments both hosted and premise based.
  • Remote User Management and protection.

Wireless

Wireless technology is everywhere, but does this make it safe? – First 4 IT have a wealth of experience of many of today’s 2.4Ghz & 5.8Ghz technologies whether for local network
distribution or long range point-to-point links. Security with modern wireless networks is paramount, and often the weakest link of the corporate network. We fully understand these concerns and deploy latest security mechanisms such as WPA2 with AES & TKIP encryption,RADIUS and other 802.1x based network authentication. 3G and other mobile or handheld technology.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

How important are your electronic data systems and how long could your business survive without them? With or without backup systems, many businesses often only find out when adisaster occurs !! This is because we either go without robust systems in place or we simply never carry out ‘Disaster Recovery’ in order to test them. This is where a continuity plan from First 4 IT could help your business. Our expertise covers:

  • A range of Symantec backup software packages.
  • Digital magnetic tapes and optical systems. (DAT, DLT, LTO, AIT etc).
  • Hard Disk based. (RAID 0,1,5,6,10 etc) or NAS and SAN (Network Attached Storage /
  • Storage Area Network).
  • Remote offsite backup.
  • Data Recovery Services.
  • Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.
  • Documentation and infrastructure topology mapping.