Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP is an award-winning and innovative law firm based in Central London and throughout Essex. With 30 years’ experience and over 160 lawyers, paralegals and support staff, the firm provides a full range of commercial and private legal services. Ranked in both the Legal 500 and Chambers directories and awarded the ‘Excellence in Technology’ at the 2016 Law Society Excellence Awards, the firm has a progressive, forward-thinking approach to what is now a fast-moving, evolving market. Dedicated to providing the highest levels of customer experience, the firm embraces new technologies, such as a same-day response service and an expansive website, and has been one of the area’s fastest-growing firms for over a decade. Fisher Jones Greenwood’s IT infrastructure needs to be flexible and up-to-date to adapt to this growth. It also needs to be highly reliable as IT is absolutely critical to the everyday running of the firm: everything from digital dictation, case management, compliance and document production, to telephony, CCTV and door entry all depend on it.
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Fisher Jones Greenwood engaged with Six Degrees whilst looking for a reliable and cost effective provider. Carr explains: “Six Degrees presented the best fit for us, as it not only demonstrated abilities to keep up with our growth, but also had a mature portfolio of services that best suited our requirements.” Six Degrees provides MPLS connectivity and SIP telephony for Fisher Jones Greenwood’s five office locations on the Six Degrees Next Generation Network (NGN). Six Degrees' L3VPN service addresses Fisher Jones Greenwood's need for a multi-site solution and to keep traffic flowing 24x7x365. The L3VPN service runs across Six Degrees' NGN which is completely resilient across the core nodes with the ability to re-reroute in less than 50 milliseconds. In addition, Six Degrees has enabled Fisher Jones Greenwood to adopt a hybrid cloud solution by providing the firm with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect as an extension of the existing MPLS network. The firm has also been able to move its in-house unified threat management system, Redscan, off-premise because Six Degrees can provide direct connectivity via its MPLS network. Carr comments: “Six Degrees have proved time and again that they are flexible to our needs. The most recent example of this was the seamless third party integration with Redscan that has brought great benefit to us and our clients.”
“Because Six Degrees understand our business and our business needs, they are much more than a provider of communication infrastructure to us; they are a valued strategic partner that obviously listen to their clients,” Carr concludes, “Our inter-office data and voice communication is now extremely reliable with traffic shaped and prioritised via Six Degrees' platform to guarantee quality.”