Connectivity & network

The network is the part nobody notices, until it fails.

Business-grade internet links, SD-WAN and site-to-site VPN, designed, procured and monitored as one connected system rather than a pile of separate carrier accounts. Whether you run a single office or several sites tied together, we make sure the connection between your people, your sites and the cloud is one thing you stop having to think about.

24/7 circuit & link monitoring
Multi-carrier procurement panel
Local Melbourne-based engineers
Every tier included as standard
24/7
Monitoring of every managed circuit and link, not just business hours.
1
Point of contact for the connection, instead of a carrier call centre queue.
Multi
Carrier panel, so we recommend the right link rather than the only link we sell.
All
Sites and links covered under one managed network, however many you run.
The business case

Your network carries everything else you rely on.

Cloud apps, VoIP, Teams calling, backups, remote access, card payments: almost everything a modern business runs on now depends on a connection that stays up. Yet connectivity is often the least-managed part of the IT estate, left to whichever carrier sold the original service and never revisited. If you've never priced what an hour of dropped connectivity actually costs, our downtime cost calculator is a useful starting point.

A single link is a single point of failure.

Most small businesses run on one internet connection from one carrier. When it drops, whether from an outage, a fault or scheduled maintenance, everything downstream stops at the same time: phones, email, cloud apps and card terminals.

Multi-site businesses need more than a firewall rule.

Connecting two or more offices with a stable, secure, well-performing link takes proper design: the right topology, the right failover behaviour, and monitoring that tells you about a problem before your staff do.

Connectivity is infrastructure, not a commodity.

Treating internet links as a set-and-forget utility bill misses the fact that they're the foundation everything else sits on. We manage connectivity the same way we manage servers and endpoints: monitored, documented and accountable to someone.

SD-WAN & site-to-site VPN

Multiple sites, acting like one network.

Once a business runs more than one location, connectivity stops being about a single link and starts being about how those sites talk to each other, to head office, and to the cloud. SD-WAN and site-to-site VPN are how we make that connection secure, resilient and centrally manageable.

Intelligent path selection

Traffic is routed dynamically across whichever available link is performing best at that moment, rather than a single static path, keeping latency-sensitive applications like voice and video usable even when one link degrades.

Encrypted site-to-site tunnels

Traffic between your sites, and between sites and cloud resources, travels through encrypted tunnels rather than exposed across the open internet, protecting data in transit end to end.

Automatic failover between links

If a primary WAN link at any site drops, traffic shifts to a secondary link automatically, without staff needing to reconnect to anything or notice a change at all.

Centralised policy management

Firewall rules, routing policy and application priorities are managed from one place across every site, so a change made once applies consistently everywhere instead of site by site.

Visibility across every site

One dashboard shows link health, traffic patterns and active alerts across your whole network, so problems are visible before staff at a remote site have to call it in.

Cloud & remote-worker friendly

The same architecture that connects your sites also extends securely to cloud platforms and remote staff, so growth and hybrid work don't mean re-engineering the network from scratch.

FAQ

Common questions on connectivity.

Do you sell internet connections directly, or manage what I already have?
Both. We can procure new business-grade links on your behalf from our carrier panel, or take over monitoring and management of existing connections. Either way you get one point of contact for the connection itself, not a call centre queue.
What is SD-WAN and do I actually need it?
SD-WAN is software that intelligently routes traffic across multiple internet or WAN links based on real-time performance, rather than a single static path. It matters most once you have more than one site, more than one link, or applications like voice and video that are sensitive to a poor connection. For a single-site business on one reliable link, it's often unnecessary.
How is a site-to-site VPN different to SD-WAN?
A site-to-site VPN creates a single encrypted tunnel between two locations, typically over a single path. SD-WAN sits above that and can manage several tunnels and links at once, choosing the best path dynamically and failing over automatically. Many of our multi-site clients run both.
What happens if our internet goes down?
That depends on the resilience design in place. A single-link site with no failover will lose connectivity until the carrier restores service. A site designed with a secondary link or SD-WAN failover keeps running, often without staff noticing. We size this to the cost of downtime for your business, not a one-size-fits-all answer.
Is connectivity included in my managed IT plan?
Monitoring, management and support of your connectivity is part of the Managed IT Foundation included in every synfo plan. Carrier circuit costs, and any SD-WAN or VPN hardware required, are quoted separately based on your sites and requirements.

Find out how your network actually stacks up.

Start with a free network audit. We'll review your current links, topology and failover posture, and hand back a plain-English plan for what's worth changing. No commitment, no sales pressure.