17 January 2025
MLL’s contract, valued at £1.7million, provides connectivity to 68 EMAS ambulance stations and two data centres and includes the upgrading of the majority of the stations to Gigabit circuit bearers. Alongside the increase in circuit bandwidths, refreshed edge site ‘SD-WAN Ready’ routers are being provided to ensure the station connectivity is future proofed in terms of Gigabit capacity and a flexible future technology roadmap.
EMAS also took the opportunity to review its firewall platform and aligned it with the edge site refresh ensuring a single vendor platform with hugely increased capacity and a technical roadmap that supports their ultimate goal of flexible, cloud-first, application aware networking with security built-in as a principal design strategy.
“EMAS are a key customer providing vital services across a large area. MLL are proud to both service and help support the development of services provided by EMAS,” said Ross Billington, MLL Client Director.
“As part of our strategic intent to improve our overall wide area network design and connectivity, this renewed contract provides an ideal opportunity for EMAS and MLL to continue to work together to not only improve connectivity to many of our ambulance stations, but also to explore innovation opportunities that will support our staff, and ultimately help EMAS to deliver better patient care,” said Steve Bowyer, EMAS Chief Digital Officer.