Professional Services - Dedicated Fibre Networks
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The once paper-based world of professional services has moved into the 21st century, embracing new technologies wherever possible, and allowing response times to clients which were never previously possible. The pressures faced by practitioners of law and accountancy mean that all now rely constantly on their data networks to transfer critical email traffic.
Many professional services practices, both in London and around the world, are realizing that the only way to truly enable secure and reliable communications between their offices and disaster recovery (DR) location is by utilising dedicated optical fibre networks.
A leading legal or accountancy firm in London, for example, may have two offices, one in the City and one in Canary Wharf, which require resilient, high speed connections between them.
Where once the firm might have relied on a leased circuit alone to maintain these critical connections, firms are now looking for resilient connections, taking a second leased circuit or replacing these traditional shared connections with dedicated optical fibre networks. For solicitors, precautions for the security of key data are not merely in the interests of valued clients, but required by the new Professional Code of Conduct.
Accountants too are under regulatory pressure to handle data securely, thanks to their central role as auditors for corporate clients and in the wake of numerous high profile accounting scandals.
Under pressure from clients, accountants are adopting automated budgeting and reporting systems to enable them to complete accounts faster while still meeting stringent accountancy regulations. The implications for network bandwidth, security and resilience all point to dedicated fibre as the answer.
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