NTL has announced the launch of its 'Broadband Power' solution for small and medium (SMEs) across Northern Ireland.

The broadband connectivity provides access to a central network and creates a ‘Virtual Private Network’ (VPN), which allows a number of sites to operate as if they are on the same system.

Nigel Lee, Product Manager at NTL Business, said: “Even small businesses increasingly need to support communications between a number of geographically diverse sites.

“Broadband Power will enable such organisations to implement a cost-effective communications solution that will not only improve day-to-day efficiency, but also offers the flexibility of adding new sites as the business grows, without enormous additional expense.”

Broadband Power is available in three versions, enabling organisations to select a package that best suits their bandwidth, SLA (Service Level Agreement) and budget requirements:

• Broadband Professional: offers 256kbps upstream and variable downstream data rates up to 2Mb, with a contention ratio of 4:1;
• Broadband Office: offers 256kbps upstream and a downstream data rate of 512kbps, with a contention ratio of 20:1;
• Broadband Teleworker: a single user service for 10 sites or more, offering 256kbps upstream and 512kbps downstream, with a 20:1 contention ratio.

All three versions of Broadband Power offer a fully managed service, to include Customer Premise Equipment installed and configured by NTL Business service engineers.

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