💫The Future of Networking | Embracing SD-WAN for Digital Transformation🚀

As businesses embark on digital transformation, the need for new network architectures becomes imperative. SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking) emerges as a pivotal technology, facilitating reliable and secure consumption of cloud applications. Legacy WANs, with their rigidity, high costs, and inability to leverage emerging technologies, are becoming obsolete. Businesses are now looking to SD-WAN to improve network performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Before adopting SD-WAN, it's crucial for organizations to thoroughly understand their requirements. Key questions to consider include:

• User Complaints: What are the common complaints about network performance or stability?

• Connection Utilization: Which connections are underutilized or used solely for backup? Do you have grudge purchases?

• Critical Applications: What are the mission-critical applications, and where are they located and utilized?

• Bandwidth Consumption: How much bandwidth is consumed on average and during peak times? Are you buying unneeded and excessive bandwidth?

• Cost Management: What are the biggest challenges in managing network costs? Is MPLS killing the budget?

• Network Improvement: If one aspect of the network could be improved, what would it be?

Why Choose Fusion SD-WAN?

Fusion SD-WAN stands out as an optimal choice for several reasons:

1. ISP and Last Mile Agnostic: Fusion operates seamlessly over various technologies, including fiber, fixed wireless, and mobile networks. In South Africa, numerous managed service providers offer Fusion as a solution.

2. Proven Success: Fusion is used extensively by businesses in Australia and South Africa and has won the IBM Beacon Award for Best Infrastructure Provider.

3. Stable and Scalable Architecture: Utilizing a hub-and-spoke architecture with packet-based load distribution, Fusion SD-WAN ensures stability and scalability, surpassing alternative architectures.

4. Comprehensive WAN Optimization: As a network-centric solution, Fusion offers extensive WAN optimization capabilities, featuring advanced networking controls often missing in firewall-based solutions.

5. Advanced Monitoring: The Antares monitoring portal, with its Illuminate module, provides advanced traffic analytics and sub-second response to network issues, including link failures, high packet loss, and excessive jitter.

6. Cloud-Native Flexibility: Fusion can be deployed not only in traditional branch networks but also in isolated cloud-only sites, making it one of the few SD-WAN solutions with this capability.

7. Cost-Effective and Flexible Pricing: Fusion is billed monthly with no long-term contracts, site-based pricing without bandwidth limitations, and includes management servers and unlimited aggregation. It is competitively priced against Silicon Valley solutions.

8. Managed Solution: Fusion's cookie-cutter deployment requires no separate solution architecture for each customer, simplifying the installation process.

9. Automated Provisioning: The Juggler service enables automatic provisioning of end nodes onto the SD-WAN using the device’s MAC address, requiring only an internet connection and power to operate.

10. Unlimited Support: Through the Antares client portal, clients have the same visibility and tools as the support team, ensuring comprehensive support.

11. Security and Integration: Fusion's security is robust throughout the entire path and allows integration with other security solutions, protecting existing investments.

12. Business Continuity: With full resilience at the aggregator level in active/active deployment and edge active/passive failover via the Pacemaker module, Fusion ensures business continuity.

13. Dynamic Multi-Link Support: Unlike firewall-based SD-WAN solutions, Fusion dynamically supports multiple active links, distributing a single flow across disparate links.

14. Performance and Reliability: Fusion assures performance for all traffic types, including crystal-clear voice over broadband from different providers, without requiring complex configurations.

15. Seamless Session Maintenance: Fusion's unique capability ensures sessions are maintained without drops, delivering virtually 0% downtime.

Read about our extensive list of deployments which we have undertaken in South Africa:

Wrapping up, Fusion SD-WAN is a comprehensive, reliable, and cost-effective solution for businesses looking to transform their network architecture. Its advanced features, ease of deployment, and superior performance make it the ideal choice for modern business.

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Ronald Bartels ensures that Internet inhabiting things are connected reliably online at Fusion Broadband South Africa - the leading specialized SD-WAN provider in South Africa. Learn more about the best SD-WAN provider in the world! 👉 Contact Fusion

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