Your business never stops - neither should your Internet

The Internet has become an integral part of today’s business communications landscape, largely because it is convenient, widely available, and presents a cost-effective way for enterprises to extend their corporate networks and access cloud applications to run their business. 

However, the fact remains that the Internet is a best-effort network of networks where erratic access and dropped connections are par for the course. And unlike end users who have learnt to live with its limitations, businesses cannot afford to have sub-par connectivity, especially when it comes to mission-critical communications. Unstable connections that are prone to high latency can undermine a business through adverse impact on application performance and employee productivity.

The solution is focusing on offloading data traffic in a hybrid network using MPLS for critical business applications with guaranteed transmission SLAs and  the public Internet. In this network configuration, significant cost savings and performance increases is achieved in a hybrid environment through offloading specific data traffic to less expensive IPSec Internet links. In many cases, the network is more than adequate to support critical applications.

But the global Internet network can suffer significant outages that are beyond the control of enterprises. Often, such an outage means data traffic can be re-routed or delayed and will break the enterprise’s application traffic.

To overcome this, implementing SD-CORE in a hybrid network environment will helps bridge the performance and reliability gaps of the Internet to deliver service consistency and full visibility into the network, cloud and applications.

With a single pane of glass, SD-CORE enhances network capabilities by unifying network controls from the edge, to the datacenter, and through the core. SD-CORE removes network silos to improve efficiencies and flexibility while enabling programmability, automation and streamlines security. The correct setup and application of a SD-CORE solution in hybrid networks has many advantages including:

Much of the issues with Internet routing occur in the core of the network. Addressing these ‘middle-mile’ connectivity issues, SD-CORE provides enterprise-grade reliability with real-time autonomous routing and self-healing, eliminating jitter and latency variance associated with the Internet.

This can transform a ‘weak’ Internet backbone into a QoS network with PoP-to-PoP SLA guarantees to deliver predictable performance and reliability.

SD-CORE’s real-time routing allows enterprises to meet spikes in capacity demand by dynamically scales bandwidth on demand. A dedicated global QoS private network can be activated within minutes to respond to changing connectivity needs.

An SD-CORE dashboard provides visibility on loss, latency, jitter, utilisation, user access and traffic flows. It also allows for micro-segmentation of applications.

For enterprises looking to reap the benefits of the Internet without the disadvantages, leveraging SD-CORE solutions in a hybrid network configuration allows them to select their own best-in-class ISPs in local and national markets where expansions are taking place.

With the assistance and expertise of an experienced service provider, Singtel create the best mix for companies to run optimized hybrid networks by simplifying and unifying all communications with advanced network solutions and extensive expertise.

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