Network & Telecommunications Services

Internet Bandwidth

We offer a blended Internet product that provides redundant access to multiple upstream carriers. Utilizing border gateway protocol (BGP) and Forsythe’s blended internet solution ensures the most efficient and reliable routing of a client’s network traffic. The service is a flexible solution that includes burstable options and commit sizes ranging from 10 Mbps to one Gbps. Forsythe’s internet bandwidth product (“Internet Bandwidth”) saves you the hassle of managing service providers; internet protocol (IP) space; and costly, complex routing and switching equipment. 

Metro Transport

Clients may order Metro Transport Services from Forsythe Hosting Solutions to provide connectivity between Forsythe Data Centers and the largest network carrier hotel in the Midwest at 350 E. Cermak in downtown Chicago. We offer a multitude of technologies to deliver your data between facilities provisioned with bandwidth up to 100 Gbps. The network fiber is fully redundant and route via low latency paths. 

Cross Connects

Cross connect to carrier services and suites in the facility via diverse fiber routing and meet-me-rooms. Cross connects are secure, reliable and provide redundancy versus local loops.  

Timing Services

Forsythe can provide access to network time protocol (NTP) services and global positioning system (GPS) streams in order to provide accurate clock for IT equipment. Clients can manage their own timing infrastructure or it can be provided giving clients flexibility.

Connectivity Services

Forsythe can provide options for connectivity services. Utilizing strong partner relationships, we offer services to identify and assess carrier solutions. We can work with you to ensure that the carriers are creating solutions that work for your organization.

Lit Carriers

Carrier neutral facility built with dual diverse on-site telecommunications vaults and points of entry. Carriers have constructed into the facility providing any of their services without the need for last mile access loops.

Managed Security Services

Increase Your Protection While Maximizing Efficiency and Performance

Forsythe Managed Security Services can deliver the specialized skills your company needs to ensure maximum security and performance for every aspect of your IT operations. We partner with you to provide management and monitoring of your IT infrastructure and devices at service levels that are customized to meet your goals.

Our Managed Security services include:

• Firewall: Proactive management and 24/7 remote monitoring of your firewalls with custom service level agreements (SLAs) specific to your needs

• Intrusion Detection & Prevention: Gain visibility, automation and flexibility needed to protect today’s complex networks

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): Reduce the time required to deploy and tune log management solutions

• Strong Authentication: Management and monitoring of two-factor authentication solutions

• Log Management: Management and monitoring of a centralized solution that stores and normalizes logs from various resources

• SSL Virtual Private Network (VPN): Management and monitoring of a VPN

Flexibility without Sacrificing Security

Our high-availability security operations center offers around-the-clock services designed to reduce the number of operational security personnel you need to hire, train and retain so you can maintain a strong security posture. We offer the options—and the flexibility—your organization needs to address constantly changing security requirements and business needs.

Data Center Strategy

More Than Optimizing Your Data Center Facilities

As your company evolves and grows organically or through merger and acquisition, your data center requirements change. The question then arises: What is the right number of data center facilities to have? Developing your data center strategy is more than just optimizing your data center facilities. Forsythe links the underlying business objectives to the technical solutions. The end result is a roadmap that maximizes the business value of your organization’s data centers.

The Power of a Clear, Long-Term Data Center Strategy

The key to optimizing data center investment is to start with a clear, long-term data center strategy that meets the full spectrum of business and IT stakeholders’ needs. Forsythe’s services are integrated to take advantage of the knowledge of experts in all areas of IT infrastructure to deliver a holistic strategy and solution. We begin by engaging our technical and business experts to baseline your current infrastructure. By assessing cost baseline information, key business drivers and predicted infrastructure growth, we are able to identify and evaluate solution scenarios which detail benefits, risks, estimated costs, and timelines for forward-looking data center strategies. 

Data Center Migration

Proven Methodology, Experienced Consultants

It is critical to leverage experienced consultants, industry best practices and a proven migration methodology because data center migrations are significant events. Forsythe’s data center professionals manage every detail of your data center migration—from inventory to integration—to ensure an effective and safe migration while your employees continue to focus on business objectives.

Migrate Complex Data Center Environments Smoothly

Our dedicated data center migration practice has performed more than 1,200 complex data center migrations for some of the biggest companies in the world. Throughout this process, Forsythe has developed a methodology and toolset that helps you migrate complex data center environments. In most cases, these migrations occur without any disruption in service.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Business Today Depends on Technology

Your ability to conduct business today depends largely on technologies that now permeate every corporate process and procedure. Whether it’s your production lines, call centers or ecommerce sites, if your technology is down so is your business. From violent storms to viruses, the threats are proliferating and so are the business costs and risks. In fact, a full 60 percent of enterprises that have a significant failure without a disaster recovery capability in place go out of business within two years of the event, according to Forrester Research.

Respond to Compelling Events without Interruption

Forsythe’s suite of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) services can help your company build greater IT and operational resiliency so you can better manage these risks. We create and implement strategic, cost-effective and dynamic programs that meet each company’s needs. The goal: Enable companies to perform the most vital functions or respond to a compelling event with minimal or no disruption despite any business interruption.

IT Infrastructure Optimization

Achieve Positive Business Outcomes

Forsythe can help you build IT infrastructure that helps you achieve positive business outcomes. We can help you optimize the cost, manage the risk and improve the performance of your IT infrastructure. We can work closely with you to improve operational efficiency, maximize speed and find new ways to make your network work harder.

Ensure Your IT Environment is Fully Utilized

We can ensure your current servers are being fully utilized and help you develop a roadmap for the strategic growth and operation of your server infrastructure. We can help you develop an intelligent storage strategy to protect and manage data and anticipate growth. We can also design and build a storage infrastructure that supports your strategy. And our information security experts can help you develop a secure environment with the right technologies to enable a security infrastructure that protects your network, applications, and stored data.

Remote & Smart Hands

Extra Hands Available On-Demand

Our remote and smart hands services are available around the clock to help you with your IT equipment. These on-demand, ad-hoc services help you when you want it and how you want it. These services help you reduce your costs by eliminating the need to dispatch your own technical staff. Tasks can range from resetting power or equipment to diagnosing and fixing your IT equipment.

Technology Evaluation Center

Validate Potential Solutions Upfront Before You Make an Investment

Today, more than ever, it is important to know exactly what you are buying before you purchase it, especially when you are responsible for mission-critical operations. You may need to comply with ever-changing regulations, upgrade the performance on an existing system or investigate the compatibility of a new system with your legacy systems. Whatever the case, the Forsythe Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) provides you with a cost-effective way for you to validate proposed business solutions upfront—before you make your final decisions and investments.

Try It Before You Buy It

Whether you need to boost security, maximize storage, evaluate a new application or test a proposed client offering, you will be able to significantly shorten your test-and- development cycle by working with Forsythe in this hands-on, live environment. Forsythe will help you customize your testing situation so that you can obtain the information you need to make quick, accurate decisions to help you avoid a lengthy and disruptive testing cycle, and enable you to “try it before you buy it.”

Integration & Configuration Center

Ensure Your Equipment is Right from the Start

Ensuring your IT investments will be “right from the start” is a crucial step toward saving you time and money. Forsythe can help you with a wide range of configuration and integration solutions for a variety of software and hardware, including PC’s, laptops, servers, routers, hubs, switches, security devices, x86 and UNIX-based equipment. Forsythe has a team of highly trained and qualified technicians who have a variety of certifications across Forsythe’s portfolio of 250 partners, including Cisco, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Novell and Oracle.

IT Equipment Built to Your Unique Specifications with the Latest Hardware and Software

Forsythe provides you with vendor-independent solutions where any process or service can be customized to your specific needs. These solutions provide you with the peace of mind that your IT investments are built to your exact specifications, up-to-date with the latest hardware and software available, and arrive at the final destination ready to be installed.

Managed Services

Free Your Team Up to Focus On Your Core Business Initiatives

Forsythe’s managed services for Security, Network, Storage, Server and OS enable you to transfer day-to-day IT infrastructure management responsibility to our highly-qualified, certified team in order to improve operational efficiencies and reduce your costs. Forsythe’s managed services enable you to focus on your core business while we manage the technology, hardware, and network needed to ensure your systems are always secure and running at optimal performance.

Ensure IT Infrastructure Management & Monitoring Is Handled Expertly and Proactively

We provide expertise on the latest technologies, 24/7 coverage, fixed-price contracts, unlimited support calls, portal and email accessibility and regular reports. We offer support services, remote management and blend/hybrid delivery capabilities.

Managed Hosting

We understand that your systems need to operate around the clock and at the highest performance and reliability possible. Forsythe offers managed hosting services for all layers of your IT infrastructure: Server, OS, Virtualization, Network, Storage and Database. We can help you no matter what you need. From something simple to something complex.