MLL Telecom and East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) have renewed its wide-area-network services for a further three years (with a one-year extension option).
MLL’s contract, valued at £1.7 million, 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.
EMAS also reviewed its firewall platform and aligned it with the edge site refresh, ensuring a single vendor platform with increased capacity and a technical roadmap that supports its 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.
Steve Bowyer, EMAS chief digital officer, said, “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.”