Virtual Realities
tomer that has recently done an imple-
mentation with our team:
Life Savers
A nationwide provider of healthcare
and charitable services to under-
privileged populations and disaster-
stricken areas wanted to upgrade to
an SD-WAN from its mixed legacy
system that connected 125 different
operations centers and offices via a
traditional WAN combined with IP-
based services. Key needs related
to its operational model included:
1. Highly resilient access to con-
nectivity ensures that opera-
tions would stay up and run-
ning even during disasters;
2. Consistent quality of services
across all offices to ensure
that they could provide excel-
lent support to populations
around even their smallest
offices; and
3. Prioritization of certain appli-
cations that were involved in
literally life-saving activities,
given their focus on healthcare
and emergency response.
In response to those needs, the
SD-WAN implementation included
a single operations center for the
entire network, giving the organiza-
tion the ability to manage routing
decisions during crisis situations.
The SD-WAN was also designed to
take advantage of dual broadband
access loops to ensure that even
small, remote offices get adequate
support. The SD-WAN was also
tuned to provide specialized support
to applications that are directly in-
volved in life-saving activities.
On the Farm
A manufacturing company that
specializes in farming equipment
had operations with 35 sites located
primarily in rural locations with lim-
ited telecommunications infrastruc-
ture, and they were experiencing
many of the challenges discussed
above when a WAN reaches the end
of its life-cycle. As a result they wanted
to upgrade to an SD-WAN that would
achieve a specific checklist of needs:
1. A network that would provide
equal support to every office so
that connectivity and IT perfor-
mance was uniform regardless
of where their facilities were lo-
cated;
2. Improved call quality for their VoIP
solution, given how much of its cus-
tomer interaction is done via phone
rather than other means; and
3. Increased bandwidth, but with an
eye on budget given the limited
operational expenditures it want-
ed to have on an ongoing basis
for meeting its data needs.
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