Professional Services team at AMG Systems set for major expansion

In this way, integrators can deliver highly secure, scalable and available networks for more customers installing AMG Systems’ UK-manufactured industrial edge switches.

As a Juniper Networks partner, AMG Systems can offer a complete network solution under one roof. AMG Professional Services is able to design, configure and test the entire network from edge devices right through to the core network powered by Juniper’s technology. This simplifies the process for clients and allows AMG to realise a more comprehensive and end-to-end professional service.

Toby Featherstone, technical services manager at AMG Systems, explained: “By combining our expertise in edge networks design for security systems with Juniper’s industry-leading secure and Artificial Intelligence-powered network solutions, we can deliver superior network designs for our clients.”

Building the team

AMG Professional Services has been building up its team of experienced network engineers alongside its networking products for several years now. This preparation means that the AMG Professional Services team is now ready to respond rapidly and effectively to whatever network design, configuration, hardening and deployment work it’s assigned.

AMG Professional Services can also provide consultancy for the initial phases of a project when security threats are being determined and vulnerability assessments carried out. The team is structured to allow customers to use as much, or as little, help as they require. Customers can elect to outsource design and network configuration projects end-to-end or otherwise call on AMG’s expertise for specific roles such as network hardening or testing prior to a new physical security system going live.

AMG Systems increasingly acts as a strategic partner for installers and systems integrators needing to optimise surveillance and other management and operational systems, using existing network infrastructure wherever possible. From Day One, AMG Professional Services has the technical expertise and capacity to offer full network design services, pre- and post-sales support, full low- and high-level network design and provide the testing and training facilities.

Robust design, hardened configuration

Steve Clarke, managing director of AMG Systems, explained to Security Matters: “The advent of Artificial Intelligence and increasingly sophisticated video analytics built into surveillance cameras, plus audio analytics in smart sensors and the increasing complexity of networks, is all being challenged by the proliferation of bad actors attempting to disrupt critical services, which depend increasingly on those networks. It became increasingly clear to us that focusing on robust design and hardened configuration of network infrastructure met a growing market need. Now is the right time to expand AMG Professional Services. Our skills are set to experience unprecedented levels of demand.”

Toby Featherstone of AMG Systems added: “We need to make sure networks are designed robustly, with redundancy, and work all the way through to the configuration and testing stages to ensure prompt, reliable and scalable solutions are delivered on time and under budget.”

Featherstone added: “If you go back just 15 years, nearly all surveillance systems were analogue CCTV-based. Zero networking skills were needed in this market. Today, AMG Systems increasingly finds itself filling network skills gaps, particularly so in the UK and Ireland, as customers increasingly want to take advantage of the latest intelligent devices, which are highly dependent on well configured, highly secure, robust and available networks.”

*Further information is available online at www.amgsystems.com