Baggaley Construction - Baggaley connect with site-net
Baggaley Construction has become the first company to
utilise an innovative solution to deliver secure
wireless Internet and VPN connectivity to its building
sites.
The company, which operates primarily in the Midlands
and Yorkshire, has introduced the Site-Net system to
three of its live projects with two more to follow soon.
Site-Net has been developed by Senior Internet as a
complete remote site network security solution for
hostile environments like the construction industry.
Site-Net provides users with Wi-Fi access to the
Internet and corporate VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)
backed up with an enterprise level firewall, anti-virus
and spam filters in a package that is fully managed,
supported and monitored 24/7 by Senior.
The 'all in one VPN in a box solution' can be installed
and configured in just a few hours, providing remote
workers across a construction site with easy access to
websites, email and remote servers, on their company
networks.
Baggaley is utilising Site-Net on sites in Nottingham,
Mansfield and Leicester with two further sites soon to
be added. Already many remote workers are able to access
files and plans saved on the Baggaley central servers as
well as send and receive secure company email and access
the Internet via their laptops anywhere on site.
“The Site-Net system provides us with a quick and easy
installation and allows us to securely send and receive
information around our sites,” says John Raybould, IT
Manager at Baggaley. “We'd been looking for a viable
solution to providing network access to people on site
for some time and were about to give up when Senior
Technology contacted us about Site-Net”.
“Site-Net meets all our requirements. It's quick and
easy to install; it doesn't require us to alter
temporary buildings; provides quick, reliable and
wireless access to our VPN and the Internet backed up by
incredibly secure firewalls, anti-virus and anti-spam
software. We didn't think we were going to find such a
secure and easy to install solution that would meet our
needs and give us a low cost of ownership.”
On site, having remote access to files and the Internet
has made a significant difference, as Steve Edis, Site
Manager at Baggaley's Grove Park, Leicester project
comments: “Before Site-Net was installed we didn't have
email or access to the company intranet and so there
were lots of meetings on site, plans had to be hand
delivered and if you wanted anything from head office
you either had to leave the site and go and pick it up
or ask for it to be posted or faxed. Now, it's sent
quickly and easily via email. Site-Net has made a real
difference to the way we work and communicate with Head
Office.”
The issue of security appears to be a major stumbling
block in the take up of Wi-Fi and VPN technology within
the construction industry and is one of the main reasons
behind Site-Net's development.
“During our research, we found that many building and
construction companies would love to be able to provide
sites with access to the Internet and company networks
as long as it didn't cost a fortune, was easy to install
and most importantly, didn't put their security and
privacy at risk,” explains Jon McLachlan of Senior
Internet. “Site-Net provides all of these features and
costs less to run compared to an internally produced and
managed solution.”
Email:
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