The charity improved its wide area connectivity with an IP-based VPN and co-location solution from Telstra International.
The challenge
Charity workers from the World Wildlife Fund are dedicated to protecting endangered species and increasing awareness of issues such as climate change. Working on projects all over the UK – and indeed all around the world – they depend heavily on remote access to connect to their head office systems, retrieve information, upload photographs, produce
reports and communicate with colleagues.
World Wildlife Fund UK (WWF-UK) is part of the international World Wildlife Fund network, the world’s largest independent conservation organisation. With a growing number of employees needing to access office systems remotely, WWF-UK was rapidly reaching the maximum capacity for its network connections.
At the time, the charity had separate lines connecting each of its five regional offices in Great Britain. It also relied heavily on another charity for its disaster recovery arrangements. WWF-UK therefore sought to create a more robust, scalable and manageable wide area network, while also improving its business continuity protection.
The solution
WWF-UK selected Telstra to provide it with a new approach to wide area connectivity. The charity implemented a Telstra IP-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) to establish a fast, fault tolerant connection between its five regional offices. It then gave employees the ability to remotely connect to this VPN using advanced encryption and authentication tools.
In addition, WWF-UK decided to take co-location space in Telstra’s London data and hosting centre to mirror its head office systems. Telstra provides a fully managed service so, if any problems do occur, Telstra’s team of engineers identifies and solves them, with minimal disruption to the charity’s employees. The data and hosting centre also provides a high bandwidth Internet connection for the charity’s exclusive use. This single point of Internet access for the entire organisation provides greater security and allows the IT team to manage traffic more easily and cost effectively.
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