East Midlands Ambulance Service renews network contract

MLL Telecom has won a further three year contract with East Midlands Ambulance Service to provide wide-area-network services in a £2m contract announced this week.

The contract provides connectivity to 68 EMAS ambulance stations and two data centres. It also includes the upgrading of the majority of the stations to Gigabit circuit bearers with ‘SD-WAN Ready’ routers are being provided to ensure the station connectivity is future proofed in terms of Gigabit capacity. The firewall platform is also included in this contract.

Steve Bowyer is EMAS’s Chief Digital Officer. He said the renewed contract offered “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,”

Read more about MLL Telecom’s work in the emergency services with this news story from January 2024 – Scottish fire takes a major step towards resilient telephony helped by MLL Telecom.

Catherine Levin

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