SD-WAN with Opengear
SD-WAN | Out-of-band
Do your company's branch offices and distribution centers have the constant connectivity needed to maintain business continuity? Out-of-band management can help you manage your devices, even when your network has failed and your IT infrastructure can't access it the traditional way. See what Opengear's SD-WAN solution is all about.
By deploying SD-WAN with Opengear products, you will provide your company with guaranteed and continuous access through Smart Out-of-Band.
Many businesses are increasingly deploying SD-WAN to improve customer service. Such deployments often fail. Learn how to deploy Smart Out-of-Band and ensure continuous network access, even when equipment or the entire infrastructure fails.
SD-WAN IT network deployments at retailers
For retail companies, meeting growing customer service demands can be a challenge when considering the increasing complexity of IT networks. Linking store software, distribution centers and warehouse applications is necessary for the infrastructure to offer better customer service. In order to increase the quality of service for current and future customers, many entrepreneurs are choosing to implement SD-WAN IT networks. This type of network will soon become a standard implementation in corporations.
Benefits of SD-WAN deployments together with Opengear
- Improved network and application security
Where the infrastructure is based on an old WAN, there are often no standard security features built in, leaving the network and the entire infrastructure unprotected. SD-WAN encrypts network traffic, which increases security when sending sensitive customer information to distributed locations (e.g., between branches of a given company).
- Greater network flexibility
Bandwidth and IT network upgrades can be tailored to specific needs and requirements so that the infrastructure is always running efficiently. Using the SD-WAN solution, businesses can add services at different locations without having to use legacy systems or send a technician to a specific location.
- Hardware, servers and overall infrastructure require less frequent maintenance
The use of SD-WAN IT networks reduces the amount of network equipment used, which directly minimizes the costs associated with equipment maintenance and downtime.
- SD-WAN points of failure - a more secure infrastructure
SD-WAN provides many benefits, but with larger data packets, the infrastructure requires constant software updates that can cause so-called points of failure. Thus, organizations are exposed to potential downtime every time applications, new devices and solutions are deployed. Opengear's Smart Out-of-Band supports SD-WAN deployments. The manufacturer's solutions provide secondary access to the router for re-flashing or powering down. With Smart Out-of-Band, technicians can remotely troubleshoot a network outage and restore proper operation. For retail entrepreneurs, the smooth and proper operation of their branches is critical. The console switches and software developed by Opengear ensure that when payment terminals (POS), security systems and other devices and equipment, at their retail outlets (e.g., stores) experience downtime, they will operate smoothly.
Using Smart Out-of-Band during SD-WAN deployments:
Software diagnoses problems
When the infrastructure is struggling, failures are detected instantly, even when there is no connectivity via the Internet. Lighthouse Centralized Management - Opengear's centralized management software enables administrators to identify and manage networks remotely, without having to travel with the necessary equipment to specific locations.
The use of the application allows constant access
Mobile failover ensures uninterrupted network availability via 4G LTE. With this functionality, enterprises are able to maintain the continuity of their operations, even when their devices and servers have lost their main connection to the Internet.
Infrastructure and equipment are cheaper to maintain
Implementing and operating a Smart Out-of-Band solution costs much less than the downtime caused by failures to which servers and the entire infrastructure are exposed. A technician's trip to the site of the failure to eliminate it causes downtime, which directly increases the financial losses incurred by companies (lack of business continuity means inability to serve customers and generate profits).