MLL Telecom and East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) have renewed WAN services for a further three years, helping improve connectivity to 68 EMAS ambulance stations and two data centres.
The MLL contract - valued at £1.7m - also includes upgrading of many of the stations to Gigabit circuit bearers.
Alongside the increase in circuit bandwidths, refreshed edge site ‘SD-WAN Ready’ routers are being provided to future-proof the station connectivity in terms of Gigabit capacity and a flexible future technology roadmap.
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.
Steve Bowyer, EMAS Chief Digital Officer, said: “As part of our strategic intent to improve our overall WAN design and connectivity, this renewed contract provides an opportunity for EMAS and MLL to continue to explore opportunities that will support our staff, and ultimately help EMAS to deliver better patient care.”