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One team for your network and your security. We run it. You run the business.

Most organisations manage networking with one provider and security with another. Neither team has full visibility. Neither team owns the full picture. Problems that cross the boundary between network and security take longer to diagnose and longer to fix. Edge7 Networks provides the full stack. SD-WAN, LAN, WiFi, SOC/SIEM, MDR, firewall, and identity. All managed by a single team that understands how each layer connects to the next.

Managed network and security - one team diagram Networking Security SD-WAN Managed LAN Managed WiFi Network Access Control SOC / SIEM MDR Firewall Management Identity and PAM One team Network and security engineers Faster diagnosis. Faster containment. Unified reporting. One conversation. One invoice. One contract. No seams. No handover overhead.
The problem

Multiple providers means multiple blind spots.

The way most organisations have built their IT infrastructure reflects how it grew. The WAN is with one provider. The LAN and WiFi with another. Security monitoring came later. Endpoint protection was a separate vendor decision. Firewalls were installed during a building fit-out. Nobody designed the whole thing to work together.

On a good day, the seams are invisible. On a bad day, the seams are where incidents live. A performance issue on a business-critical application involves three support desks before anyone establishes whether the problem is on the WAN, the LAN, the application, or the firewall policy. Your IT team acts as the integration layer between providers who have no contractual reason to collaborate and no visibility into each other's systems.

Security is the same story. The SOC team monitors alerts. The network team manages the infrastructure generating those alerts. When the SOC raises a suspicious traffic pattern, the network team has to be briefed before they can investigate. When a firewall rule needs to change in response to an incident, the process crosses two organisations. The overhead is operational. The risk is that neither team has the full picture when it matters most.

There is also the commercial overhead. Multiple contracts, multiple account managers, multiple renewal cycles, multiple invoices. The administrative cost of managing several providers for infrastructure that should work as one is a drain on time and attention that rarely shows up in any justification but is felt constantly.

What changes

One team. Complete visibility. No seams.

Your networking and security teams are the same team.

Edge7 Networks manages your WAN, LAN, WiFi, and security from engineers who understand both disciplines. There is no handover between network and security functions. They are the same people.

Incidents are owned end to end.

When something goes wrong, Edge7 Networks does not need to brief a third party before investigating. The team monitoring your security alerts is the same team that manages the infrastructure. They already have the context. Diagnosis is faster. Containment is faster. Recovery is faster.

Changes are coordinated.

When a network change has security implications, or a security change has network implications, the same team makes both changes. No gap between what the firewall rule says and what the network actually does. No change request waiting for another organisation's approval process.

Your reporting covers everything in one conversation.

Monthly service reviews include networking and security in the same session. Application performance, WAN utilisation, security events, patch status, policy changes, and compliance evidence all come from one team in one report. One point of contact who can answer any question about your infrastructure without a referral.

Your commercial relationship is simple.

One contract. One service level agreement. One invoice. One renewal cycle. One number to call. The administrative overhead of managing multiple provider relationships disappears.

What is included

The full stack. Managed as one service.

Both disciplines are managed by the same team under a single service agreement. Networking and security visibility is shared. The team that manages the WAN is the team monitoring the security events it generates.

Networking
SD-WAN

Application-aware routing across every site. Circuit management, carrier liaison, zero-touch provisioning for new locations, and 24/7 monitoring. Built on HPE Aruba EdgeConnect.

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Managed LAN

Switching infrastructure designed, documented, and actively managed. Segmentation, firmware lifecycle, and capacity planning handled proactively.

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Managed WiFi

Wireless networks designed from predictive site surveys. Ongoing management of channel plans, roaming, and high-density environments.

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Network Access Control

Cloud-native NAC for corporate, contractor, IoT, and guest devices. Identity-verified, device-compliant, certificate-based access on HPE Aruba Central.

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Security
SOC and SIEM

24/7 security monitoring. Centralised log collection, correlation, and real-time threat detection. Security events from networking and security layers feed into one monitored platform.

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Managed Detection and Response

Proactive threat hunting, investigation, and guided response across endpoints, network, and cloud. The human layer on top of automated detection.

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Firewall Management

Rule base governance, change management, and firmware lifecycle across Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Check Point. Your perimeter policy stays aligned with your network.

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Identity and PAM

MFA, conditional access, SSO, and privileged access management. Administrative access is auditable. Identity controls are aligned with network access policy.

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Additional services available: Email security, SSE/ZTNA, EDR/XDR, incident response, compliance consulting, and vCISO. The full stack can be expanded to cover every layer of your environment.

How an engagement works

From estate audit to full operations. One team the whole way.

01

Estate audit

Every engagement starts with a structured review of your current networking and security infrastructure. WAN, LAN, WiFi, security tooling, firewall policy, identity and access, and monitoring coverage. We map what you have, what is working, and where the gaps are.

02

Design and roadmap

Edge7 Networks produces a unified networking and security architecture. Service scope, transition plan, deployment sequence, and SLAs. Both parties agree on the target state before any work begins.

03

Managed transition

Existing services are transitioned in phases. Where tools can be retained and integrated, they are. Where they need to be replaced, migration is planned to maintain continuity. Your protection level does not drop during the transition.

04

Unified operations

Edge7 Networks manages the entire estate. 24/7 monitoring, proactive maintenance, change management, firmware lifecycle, incident response, and monthly reporting. One team, one process, one relationship.

Who this is for

Built for organisations that have outgrown managing multiple providers.

IT Director / CIO

You are tired of acting as the integration layer between providers that do not communicate.

You need a single team that owns the full stack and takes that coordination burden off your desk. You want one conversation, not five.

IT Operations / Infrastructure Manager

You manage a distributed estate across multiple sites with too many provider relationships and too little visibility.

One partner for the full stack simplifies escalation, change management, and procurement at scale.

Private equity / M&A

Each acquired business comes with its own providers, contracts, and infrastructure. You need to standardise and consolidate.

Edge7 Networks can rationalise fragmented estates across a portfolio under a single managed service, reducing cost and complexity.

Technology leadership

You are in an infrastructure refresh cycle and you do not want to recreate the multi-provider problem.

If you are replacing WAN, refreshing LAN, or reconsidering your security stack, doing it with one partner is the opportunity to fix the architecture properly.

Trusted by organisations across Ireland, the UK, and Europe

Organisations that trust Edge7 Networks.

Rehab Group
Medite Smartply
Mills & Reeve
Scot JCB
Moore Kingston Smith
Mullinahome Co-op
Commissioners of Irish Lights
Guinness Enterprise Centre
Yaskawa
Learn more

Resources and tools.

Guides and assessments to help you evaluate whether a full-stack managed service is the right model for your organisation.

Assessments and tools — coming soon

We are building a full-stack TCO calculator to compare multi-provider versus single-partner costs, and an MSP readiness assessment. Available here when released.

Coming soon
Why Edge7 Networks

The only team that manages both disciplines as one.

Same engineers. Both disciplines.

Edge7 Networks was founded on SD-WAN in 2018 and built security expertise alongside it. Network engineers who understand security. Security engineers who understand the network. Low churn means the people managing your infrastructure are the people who built it.

Network changes and security changes move together.

When a firewall rule needs to change because of a network design decision, or a network segment needs to change because of a security requirement, one team makes the call. No coordination overhead. No documentation gap between what the network does and what the security controls expect it to do.

Accountable for the whole picture.

With multiple providers, it is always the other team's problem. With Edge7 Networks, there is no other team. The buck stops with the people managing your infrastructure. That accountability changes how problems are approached and how quickly they are resolved.

Talk to us

Find out what managing your full stack actually looks like.

Every organisation's infrastructure is different. The best way to understand what Edge7 Networks can cover and what it would cost is a conversation. We start with an estate audit, and you decide whether to proceed.