SD-WAN SERVICES

SD-WAN optimizes your bandwidth to deliver the applications your users expect. By deploying redundant circuits at any of your locations and allowing SD-WAN to analyze your traffic, your organization will benefit from a greater level of control over your network traffic for improved network agility, security, and application performance. It does that by incorporating Internet transports (such as Cable, DSL, Fiber and 4G) into the WAN and forming a virtual overlay across all transports

SD-WAN empowers you to safely enable your applications, users and content while reducing your threat footprint. The days of having a primary and a backup circuit are a distant memory. Deploy redundant circuits at any of your locations and let the intelligence of your SD-WAN solution dictate, in real time, the best connection to use for every packet. The result is a more rapid network that increases usable bandwidth and reduced jitter, latency, dropped packets and other factors that prevent applications from performing for your users.

MPLS Network vs. SD-WAN

WHICH SOLUTION IS RIGHT FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

MPLS Network

Pros: Simple to manage, minimizes security requirements.

Cons: Constrained bandwidth, poor application performance, costly to upgrade bandwidth speed, costly to add new sites, inefficient routing of cloud-based applications. Carrier always has upper hand in contract negotiations.

SD-WAN

Pros: Abundant bandwidth and inexpensive to increase bandwidth, Easy to turn up new sites, can make global changes to network, Greatly improved Security profile and operations. Fully Managed Network and Security (SOC). High availability and reliability. Customer has all the leverage in carrier negotiations.

Cons: More complex network management, increased security exposure and cost of transition.

CONTRACT REVIEWS

Group9 has negotiated numerous fixed, mobile, hardware, and maintenance contracts delivering the best solution at the best price, while providing the customer with a dramatic cost savings. Group9’s expertise in negotiating with Carriers, PTT’s, CLEC’s, ILEC’s, Cable, Mobile providers, and Equipment Manufacturers provides the customer with global market knowledge of current rates, terms and conditions. Group9 will review all contracts and provide a complimentary total cost savings assessment. Group9 will review and negotiate all past and future telecom contracts and provide a detailed analysis on savings moving forward with contract review, selection and negotiation. Group9 will track commitment levels with vendors while verifying contractual rates are being billed properly against contract SLA’s.

TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT & IT ROADMAP

Group9 looks at all aspects of your IT Infrastructure and listens to your key decision makers to determine where you are today and your future goals. There are often silos created over the years within IT Departments, and technology decisions made in one area can often have a negative effect in another area that causes undo expenditures and wasted resources. Group9’s Technology Assessment gathers & mines data from all of IT, the Business Units and Global Theaters that comprise your company. Our 1, 3 & 5 year IT Road-Map pulls everything together, streamlining the performance of your entire organization.