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Business firewall

It keeps the guest wi-fi away from the card terminals, lets staff connect from anywhere, and never expires. The box that arrived with the internet service was never built for any of that.

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Rack-mounted, with more throughput and room for camera recording
What you get

What the box at the edge is actually for

It is the one device every other device depends on, and the one most buildings inherited rather than chose.

Payments on their own network

Card terminals and registers sit apart from staff laptops and apart from the guest wi-fi, over the same cabling, so a problem on one side does not reach the other.

Staff on from anywhere

A private route in for people working off site, without publishing anything to the open internet.

Guest wi-fi that stops at the internet

Visitors get a line out and nothing else — not the registers, not the cameras, not the file shares.

One place the whole network is run from

Switches, access points, cameras and door readers all answer to the same console, so it is one login rather than five.

Nothing that expires

It keeps doing the job whether or not a subscription is paid. A lapsed license is one of the common reasons one of these gets replaced.

What crossed the line is recorded

Traffic is logged and searchable, so a question about last Tuesday has an answer rather than a theory.

The box the internet company left is not a firewall

It is a modem with a wireless radio in it, sized to get one household online. There is no way to put a card terminal on a different network from a visitor’s phone.

Most buildings never chose it. It arrived with the service and stayed, and it is still there years later carrying a business it was never specified for.

Replacing it is usually a single visit, and the cabling and the access points already in the building carry on working.

WHAT EACH ONE CAN REACHPAYMENTSSTAFFCAMERASGUESTSTHE INTERNETCARD TERMINALSSTAFF LAPTOPSCAMERAS AND DOORSGUEST WI-FIGUEST WI-FI REACHES ONE COLUMN, AND IT IS NOT THE TILLS
Card terminalsPAYMENTS AND THE INTERNETStaff laptopsSTAFF AND THE INTERNETCameras and doorsEACH OTHER, NOTHING ELSEGuest wi-fiTHE INTERNET, NOTHING ELSEGUEST WI-FI CANNOT REACH THE CARD TERMINALS

Card terminals, staff laptops, cameras and guest wi-fi each reach their own lane and, in most cases, the internet. None of them reaches another lane, which is what keeps a visitor’s phone away from the registers.

The equipment

A rack unit, or a box that sits on a shelf

The choice is how much has to pass through it, and whether there is a rack to put it in.

Rack-mounted, with more throughput and room for camera recording

Rack-mounted, with more throughput and room for camera recording

Small sites — routing, firewall and wireless in one box

Small sites — routing, firewall and wireless in one box

How it works

How the work runs

01

Where the internet lands

The survey records the service coming in, what it terminates on, and what would have to move for anything to change.

02

The separation decided first

Which things sit apart from which — payments, staff, guests, cameras, doors — is decided before any equipment is ordered.

03

Swapped over

The swap usually takes a working day. Existing cabling and existing access points carry on unless they are the reason for the call.

04

Handover

Remote access is proved working for whoever needs it, and the separation is tested from the guest side rather than assumed.

Questions we get asked

Is the router from the internet provider not enough?

It is built to get one household online. It has no way to keep card terminals on a separate network from visitors’ phones, which is the main thing a business needs from this.

Can staff work from home through it?

Yes. A private route in is part of the setup, and it does not require publishing anything to the open internet.

Is there a subscription?

No. It keeps working whether or not anything is paid. Licenses expiring is a common reason people replace what they have.

Will it slow the internet down?

Not if it is sized against the line. Throughput is checked against the service actually in place before anything is quoted.

Does the existing wi-fi and cabling stay?

Usually. This is the box at the edge; the access points and switching behind it carry on unless they are part of the job.

One box decides what reaches what

A quote needs three things: the service, the box it terminates in, and what has to stay separate from what.

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