What We Do

Network Infrastructure – Consulting, Auditing, Design & Deployment

Our team of Cisco, Brocade, Dell and Lenovo DCG certified engineers are highly experienced in the design, auditing, implementation and management of local area (LAN) and wide area (WAN) network technologies supporting large organisations.

We have a deep understanding of the complex networking technologies and standards that are available in this field and can assist any organisation in designing high performance, highly available networks.

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Past Projects

  • MidCoast Council Core Network, Campus LAN, WAN Backbone, HA Border Network and Campus WiFi design & implementation
  • Port Macquarie Hastings Council Core Network, Campus LAN, WAN Backbone, HA Border Network and Campus WiFi design & implementation
  • Port Macquarie Hastings Council Treatment Plant Network design & implementation
  • Forbes Shire Council Core Network design & implementation
  • Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation Core Network & Campus LAN design & implementation
  • Expressway Spares Core Network and HA Border Network design and implementation

Past Projects

  • MidCoast Council Compute, Storage, Virtualisation and Disaster Recovery design & implementation
  • Port Macquarie Hastings Council Treatment Plant design & implementation
  • Port Macquarie Hastings Council Compute, Storage, Virtualisation and Disaster Recovery design & implementation
  • MidCoast Council (Taree) Compute & Storage design & implementation
  • Forbes Shire Council Cisco Nexus & Dell EMC Storage Area Network design & implementation
  • Expressway Spares Storage and DR design & implementation

Data Centre Infrastructure – Consulting, Auditing, Design & Deployment

At the core of every large organisation is its data centre. Our team are responsible for the design and installation of highly available data centre solutions for numerous government, education and private enterprise organisations.

Our team hold data centre technology certifications from Cisco, Dell, Lenovo DCG, Microsoft, Nimble Storage (HPE), Veeam and VMWare.

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Security & Compliance – Consulting, Auditing, Design & Deployment

Through our strong partner relationships with network security heavyweights Check Point and Cisco, we offer industry leading security solutions that can offer true Zero Day protection. From network perimeter to the network edge and beyond to mobile users.

Security requirements are ever changing with the evolving threat landscape. Our clients have peace of mind in knowing that they are using the same suites of security appliances and applications as Australia’s largest organisation.

We are trained and experienced in the design, deployment and management of these appliances and applications, holding industry certifications with Check Point, Cisco and CompTIA.

We were the first system integrator in Australia to supply a full stack security enterprise agreement and were recently awarded 4 star partner status with Check Point, recognising S5 Technology Group as one of their leading partners in Australia.

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Past Projects

  • MidCoast Council Remote Site Redundant Route Based VPN solution design & implementation
  • MidCoast Council Communications Tower Firewall solution design & implementation
  • MidCoast Council HA Perimeter Firewalls, HA Management and Always-On Machine Certificate VPN solution design & implementation
  • Port Macquarie Hastings Council Treatment Plant Security design & implementation
  • Port Macquarie Hastings Council HA Firewalls, HA Management Server and Remote Site solution design and implementation
  • Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation HA Perimeter Firewalls, Cloud Management and Always-On Machine Certificate VPN solution design & implementation
  • Forbes Shire Council HA Firewalls, Management Server and Remote Site solution design and implementation
  • Expressway Spares Multi-Site HA Perimeter Firewalls, Management and Inter-site VPN solution design & implementation

Cloud Partners

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • VMWare

Cloud Computing Solution Design & Deployment

Our team can design and deploy full Cloud or Hybrid Cloud solutions to meet your organisation’s requirements whilst maintaining network security.

Many of our clients are utilising Hybrid Cloud solutions which are secured using the same security technologies mentioned above. This relieves the concern around Cloud security, removing corporate road blocks and easing the transition.

We choose to partner with Tier 1 cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft Azure and VMWare to ensure our client’s critical data is both adequately secured and also accessible independently of the service provider to remove another layer of corporate risk.

Active Directory – Consulting, Design & Deployment

Our Microsoft certified engineers have the skills and experience to design and deploy robust, highly available Microsoft Active Directory based networks for any size organistation.

Technologies

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to 2022 – App Locker, Bit Locker, DFS, IIS, NLB, Powershell, RDS, RRAS, Storage Services and more.
  • Active Directory – Federation Services, Certificate Services, Rights Management Services and Trusts.
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003 – 2016 & Online – DAG, CAS, DLP, Hybrid

Government Procurement Contracts

We are an approved government procurement panel contractor and actively supply products and services to Local and State Government entities.

Please contact us for further information on how to engage under these supply contracts.

ProcurePoint Government Reseller
Local Government Procurement - LGP Reseller
Local Buy

Points of Difference

  • Awarding winning managed service provider.
  • Fully qualified IT professionals holding ‘current’ certifications.
  • Over 2500 devices under management.
  • Industry leading management, monitoring and automation tools.
  • Superior reporting and audit processes.

Managed IT Services & Support Contracts

As an award winning managed service provider, our support contracts and management offering are regarded as the very best in the industry

We utilise the latest in network management and monitoring tools yet are set apart from our competitors through the significant reporting and validation processes our engineers undertake to ensure that our monitoring and automation is not only accurate and correctly resolving issues, but to ensure that we can quickly access, remediate and restore your network when disaster occurs.

As one of the largest regional Managed Service Provider’s in Australia, our staff have significantly greater access to our partner resources and training than that of our competitors.

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Modern Workplace

Modern Workplace is the concept of decentralising your place of work. Providing users with the ability to work efficiently from anywhere, without being tethered to a specific location or place of work.

S5 Technology Group employ the Modern Workplace philosophy in our own organisation and have assisted many customers with realising the benefits of this approach.

To achieve a Modern Workplace in your organization, get in touch with us today and we can assist you with identifying the correct technology mix.

Training & Adoption

Training services are available with every level of supply and implementation that our organisation provides to ensure that our customers get the very most out of their investment.

Our Port Macquarie office features a 30 seat training room with video conferencing and electronic white board facilities and is available to our Network Management customer free of charge.

Due to our strong relationships with our vendor partners we have been able to provide free enablement training direct from our vendors in our Port Macquarie office, saving our clients significant travel costs. Our vendor partners who have participated in this training have included Microsoft, Nimble Storage and Apple.