Posts Tagged ‘SD-WAN’
SD-WAN – MPLS Mesh Network Gives Medical Practice Resilient, Secure Telecom
Phones are critical for a doctor’s office. Their business relies on patients calling to schedule appointments and clinicians being able to call patients about medications or lab results, for example. Without a highly available telephone system, such as the SD-WAN – MPLS mesh network featured here, the office cannot function optimally. For a multi-location physician…Read More
SD-WAN vs MPLS…is it Really a David and Goliath Situation?
Networking is going through a transformation and becoming heavily distinguished by software. I’ve seen quite an increase in the adoption rate of SD-WAN; and not only within the SMB market but by the leading service providers. What’s more, those service providers are introducing and recommending SD-WAN to their clients. To a greater extent, SD-WAN has…Read More
VeloCloud SD-WAN Freezes Network Outages for HVAC Client
A network outage brings business to a screeching halt, especially when there’s no resiliency to help a company prevent losing access to critical apps. Fortunately, such outages are history for a national commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) provider; MicroAge devised a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution that eliminated downtime. The VeloCloud SD-WAN…Read More
SD-WAN vs MPLS – A Meraki Lesson Learned
This is a lesson on how doing things the way they have always been done can negatively impact your business. While building the Communications Practice at MicroAge, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with hundreds (if not thousands) of different organizations about their individual approaches to the wide area network and as of late I’ve seen…Read More
What’s all the Hype with SD-WAN Anyways?
The challenges. Cloud adoption has dramatically impacted the way organizations are accessing applications, and the rate at which we see “cloud” being consumed is only increasing. Leveraging cloud based applications improves the speed of deployment, providing more cost control, and simplifying management. But, before you move all your applications to the cloud, it is imperative…Read More
Telecom Solutions to Help Transform Your Business
The MicroAge Telecom Practice has provided 'value adds' around telecom to hundreds of our clients. The problem is that the term 'telecom' and the products and offerings within the telecom space are so broad it’s sometimes hard to understand how MicroAge can best provide value to your organization. To simplify things, here are the top 5 most…Read More
Simplifying WAN Architecture While Increasing Bandwidth with SD-WAN
Working as an objective resource for many MicroAge clients and overseeing the Telecom Practice, I constantly watch for emerging trends in technology that can help the way our clients conduct business in a cost effective and productive manner. Whenever I hop on the phone with a new company, large or small, I tend to hear…Read More