Out with the old, in with the new: Auckland-based telecommunications company UFONE NZ starts 2019 with their latest network upgrade.
Thursday 28 February 2019, 1:51PM
By Media PA
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New Zealand’s leading business VoIP provider UFONE NZ have made an excellent start to 2019. With a mission to constantly keep their services speedy and reliable, the Auckland-based VoIP experts have recently rolled out their latest network upgrade.
This major project required three months of meticulous planning and implementation. It involved redesigning UFONE’s core network to include new state-of-the-art high-availability switches and routers which could replace their old equipment. This made for a challenging installation process as some of the new equipment weighed up to 80 kgs!
“UFONE runs a system providing VoIP and Internet services to our customers and to be successful we need to set up our infrastructure to be as reliable and resilient as possible,” explains UFONE CEO Nigel Rayneau.
In order to achieve a Telco level of reliability, the minimum requirement begins with having two fully functional independent data centres. Each centre must have the ability to operate the entire system independently in case the other fails for any reason.
Another vital requirement is multiple upstream paths of connectivity to each data centre and the ability to automatically switch between upstream paths.
Maintaining a high degree of efficiency also means anything that is likely to fail has a duplicate which automatically takes over in the event of a failure like power feeds, network interface cards, and linked internal storage drives (RAID drives). So, even if a server hard disk fails catastrophically, there would be zero impact to the end customer.
“These are all baseline requirements which are not only costly to purchase and set up but require a high level of networking expertise and knowledge to maintain,” says Rayneau. “Improving reliability and resiliency usually means capital investment in better equipment, but also having staff expertise in line with specialised and complex equipment being deployed.”
For the remainder of the year, UFONE’s major goal will be to capitalise on their new infrastructure and capabilities, by expanding their services to larger and more demanding corporate customers.
About UFONE:
UFONE is an Auckland-based telecommunications company which provides reliable business to business VoIP services throughout New Zealand and is proud to be a 3CX platinum partner. UFONE also offers expert end-to-end support, right from your desk phone to their core network. All data centres are located right here in New Zealand so you get the benefits of faster speeds and quicker response times.
Contact UFONE:
Phone: 0800 508 888
Email: support@ufone.co.nz
Website: www.ufone.co.nz
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ucsltd
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