Enhancing Connectivity and Security in the Digital Age

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses require robust and reliable connectivity solutions to thrive. One such solution is the use of static IP addresses, especially when bundled with advanced 4G and 5G mobile services. Currently all Australian Mobile operators both mobile phone and data only provide devices with dynamic IP or mobile IP addresses on their mobile networks. What we find with many of these services, is that a new IP address can be allocated each time and many times not even a real ip address.

However, having a static IP address is vital for modern businesses, spanning network security, cloud access, phone systems, and backup connectivity. To this end PIP has developed a turn key solution to provide your business with static IP addresses to all mobile data connections. PIP can also provide the same IP address that your traditional PIP broadband or PIP Ethernet Internet connection has on a 4G backup system, therefore ensuring your local network does not notice any problems or downtime when a mobile network backup system kicks in.

Securing your corporate Network

A static IP address, which remains constant over time, is an essential tool for network security. It allows businesses to implement strict firewalls protecting company integrity and private data. As well as providing IT management with precise access controls and the ability to monitor network traffic more effectively.

Key benefits:

• Enhanced Firewall Management: Static IP addresses enable businesses to set up robust firewall rules, allowing only trusted IPs to access sensitive resources.
• Consistent Network Policies: With static IPs, administrators can establish and maintain consistent security policies, reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
• Improved Monitoring and Reporting: Static IPs facilitate better tracking of network activities, making it easier to detect and respond to security incidents promptly.
• Work From Home Security: By providing a static IP to work from home users, we can quickly identify any spurious data or use from a home network or remote device and remove access.
• VPN Access: Even if a corporate VPN server (Virtual Private Network) is utilised, having all devices on their own IP address provides firewall opportunities for these concentrators as well as mitigating DOS (Denial of Service) attacks.
• Device Location Continuity: Instead of devices, users of multiple remote devices can be allocated individual IP addresses thereby combining different devices or a different location into a single entity.
• Device Compliance: With static IP addresses, end user devices can be easily catalogued in asset management system, controlling operating system, virus scanning definitions and other company required software.

Static IP for Accessing the Cloud

As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services, having a fixed IP address to all remote devices, becomes indispensable. It ensures seamless and secure access to critical cloud-based applications and data. The primary advantage of all end users having a dedicated IP address is that this pool of IP addresses can be allowed access to the corporate cloud and blocking all others. This provides an initial high wall for would be attackers.

Administrators can also utilise this unique number for the access control of services and applications within the corporate cloud infrastructure. If a company VPN service is used, administrators may also wish to include authorization based on an individuals IP address to allocate resources.

Key advantages include:

• Secure Remote Access: Static IPs provide a significant authorizable token for which to provide one factor of authentication to a corporate cloud for network devices. This IP address should be used for authorization to certain sections of a companies cloud infrastructure for security purposes.
• Simple IP Whitelisting: Many businesses take advantage of cloud service providers whitelisting options, either on a country basis or more granularly on an IP by IP basis. A static IP simplifies this process, ensuring uninterrupted access.
• Remote Printing Systems: With a static IP address reservation, cloud printers can be setup on a permanent print spool, reducing system resources on the cloud as well as providing a robust and reliable printing system.
• Accountability: By all devices using a static IP or unique identifier, network data can be monitored and logged based on IP address. This provides complete transparency to what services, networks and content all employees are access 24×7

Running Phone Systems VOIP

Modern business phone systems are now entirely VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). These systems work by devices either handsets or mobile devices connecting over the Internet to a companies PBX (private branch exchange).  Assigning a static public IP address to any/all devices connecting to this PBX is essential for strict cooperate security and governance. All PBX systems should be locked down and only have access from trusted IP addresses. This scenario provides at least a 2 Factor authentication system for this older style protocol and technology.

Key benefits include:

• VOIP PBX Security: A static IP address for all end devices, provides the added security needed for all corporate phone systems. By firewalling the PBX to all IPs other than those utilised in our businesses we are effectively providing 2 factor authentication for our phone systems. thereby doubling the security of our phone network.
• Call Routing: Static IPs on the phone network allow us to route calls and call data on the networks with the least latency. This provides us with the tools to direct the data packets directly accurately and promptly, reducing latency, jitter, and packet loss. Leading to clearer and  reliable voice communications.
• Simplified Troubleshooting: Static IPs make it easier to identify and resolve network issues. Since an IP address doesn’t change, network administrators can quickly pinpoint and address problems, minimizing downtime.
• Ease of Integration: Static IPs facilitate the integration of VoIP devices with other network services and equipment, such as printers and servers, making the overall network management simpler, and understandable.
• Mobile Phone VOIP Handsets: Today our mobile phone is the core device that is with us all day and provides the majority of our communications. Many businesses are doing away with handsets and just using an individuals mobile. In this scenario it is essential to allocate static IP addresses to mobile phones. This technology can be delivered to your Android Device or iPhone.

4G/5G Backup Connectivity

In today’s business environment, maintaining continuous connectivity is crucial. PIP advises all its corporate Internet clients to implement a 4G Internet backup. While this backup may occasionally offer limited services due to Australian Mobile networks providing only dynamic IP addresses, it is essential for uninterrupted operations. Dynamic IPs restrict access to certain services and servers that require a company’s specific IP address.

As an NBN and Ethernet Internet service provider, PIP offers reliable 4G or 5G backup solutions to all its online services. In the event of a failover, we can assign your fixed Internet Internet IP address via the same DHCP server (dynamic host configuration protocol) to your backup mobile data connection, thereby ensuring seamless continuity during any outage. This approach guarantees true failover capability, preserving the functionality and connectivity of your business.

This approach can even provide an easy way for corporations to utilise other wireless networks or even satellite network connections as a backup for internet traffic.

Key advantages:

• Uninterrupted Operations: In case of primary internet failures, a 4G/5G backup with the same static IP you have for NBN or Ethernet ensures seamless transition and continuity of business operations.
• Consistent IP Addressing: Static IPs prevent IP address conflicts during failovers, maintaining consistent network configurations.
• Reliable Remote Monitoring: With a static IP, businesses can remotely monitor and manage network performance, even during backup connectivity scenarios.

Mobile Devices and Corporate Services and Services

Larger organizations manage many essential internet services internally. These include services such as Domain Name Servers (DNS), web servers, and cloud storage services like Microsoft SharePoint. These services and servers are exclusively for use by trusted employees, necessitating stringent security measures and advanced firewall technology to safeguard these assets. Consequently, it is required to assign a controlled and static IP address to every corporate device within this network.

Benefits include:

• Access to internal Internet services: When corporations host their own on-premise services and servers such as DNS servers, Web servers and SharePoint Servers. It is a requirement to allocate every corporate device its own unique IP address.
• Data and Device tracking: By providing each device its own individual and permanent IP address, corporations can easily track and trace the location and actions of any device. Further securing sensitive data.
• Network Management : By allocating each device with a permanent IP we can quickly allocate and remove network access and assets from each device.
• Network Performance: Just like we can use these addresses to manage data and access to network resources, we can use these same metrics to graph utilisation and determine what devices are utilising the network the greatest and rectify appropriately.

What is the Price for a Static IP on my mobile device ?

For clients where their fixed internet, either Ethernet or NBN is with PIP and have a corresponding, PIP backup 4G Sim there is  typically no extra cost for us assigning your current IP address to our backup mobile solutions.

For individual and independent  connections our static IP is typically bundled into the cost of the Data Sim costing as little as an extra $5 / month for this service.

For further information and individual costings in Static IP for mobile, please contact our office

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