SD-WAN Architecture Explained: An Overview and Components

Today, the higher bandwidth and data consumption have become the need of an hour. Especially during the peak hours, it’s quite arduous to manage bandwidth distribution over WAN. This is the reason that SD-WAN has become an imperative business component that helps businesses stay forefront by getting victory over bandwidth mismanagement. Hence, sooner or later, SD-WAN architecture will become an important element that assists an organization in building a strong framework to make everything agile, smooth, and streamlined. Moving to its architecture then, centralizing and simplifying network management, enabling automation, and accessing cloud security- all these are the must-have ...

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Top 6 Benefits of SD-WAN

Enterprises are revolving around different business strategies and new technologies to be ahead in the game. Whether it is cloud or SaaS, mobility, BYOD, network security, or unified communications- every entrepreneur is in search of the best and latest tech. Among which, the cloud is most eminent. It has gifted certain presents to the clan of businessmen- easy data transfer among intra-geographical locations, ease of storage, etc. Along with these advantages of the cloud, its security plays an equally important role. Here enters SD-WAN, which provides: Granular SecurityAgile NetworkBetter SpeedLow Operating CostHigher UX, etc. No doubt, SD-WAN is a ...

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SD-WAN vs VPN: Can SD-WAN Replace VPN Completely?

CostQoS (Quality of Service)Safe Cloud Usage These three factors are defined as VPN+SD-WAN, or SD-WAN is just an attempt to “re-brand” VPN. It is marked as the advanced enterprise-grade VPN to differentiate it from legacy VPNs.  If we travel a few years back, then VPN was a significant part of networking security. Its property of traffic encryption makes it a level above than others. It, actually, extends the corporate network via encrypted connections across the internet. Since it’s only between the device and the network, the traffic remains secured, while it’s traveling. Even, the employee, working from outside the ...

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Video Conferencing Solutions: The Definitive Guide (A to Z) in 2019

What is Video Conferencing ? A video conference is a live real time, visual communication session between two or more users residing in separate locations. This technology enables business meetings, routine meetings, business deals, and even interviews between different offices/branches located at far locations. Its use cases are endless as it saves a lot of time, cost and hassle associated with business travel.  Lately, many organizations have also implemented Video Conferencing to such an extent that it has become their preferred mode of communication over a direct telephonic call or audio conferencing. Benefits of Video Conferencing Increase in productivity ...

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Different Types of Video Conferencing Solutions for SMEs/Enterprises

Today's workforce is more used to new technologies and at the same time, they also expect instantaneous flawless communication from anywhere using any device. Mobility, cloud and big data have already removed many barriers and contributed heavily to better workforce collaboration. Video conferencing has become a new norm when it comes to attending any meeting between teams located at different branch offices. Until now, video conferencing was viewed as a mode of communication through video only; but now it also incorporates collaboration tools too. It enables the business to collaborate within teams (teams could be located anywhere in the world), ...

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How SD-WAN Improves Unified Communications

Round the Clock- Unified Communication is helping businesses in many ways. Ranging from a voice call to video to live chat to screen sharing to webinars, UC is proving its worth at every edge of the communications network. Staffing it in your enterprise’s strategies will certainly make your communications stable and seamless. However, with the increase in higher bandwidth demand, unified communication faces a lot of hurdles in its way. You can’t take overall charge of the network and the transmitted data. Under such conflicting circumstances, you need the solution through which you can take charge over the data ...

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Must Have Technologies for SMBs/Enterprises- Is your Workspace Future-Ready?

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – This saying is applicable to individuals, teams, as well as businesses. While building a business, one of the most difficult and crucial aspects is to build a culture where people love to come to work. They feel more connected; their work environment encourages them to contribute more & perform at their highest level; and where group of individuals/team collaborates together from different geographic locations without feeling they are distant apart. Evolving Flexible Workspaces As business grows more, workspace needs to keep up with all the technological advancements so that everyone ...

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Migration from TDM to IP telephony(Part 2): Deployment Models

In our earlier blog-Migration from TDM to IP telephony(Part 1): Hybrid Approach & Benefits  we have discussed about the benefits of migration from TDM to IP. In this blog we will talk about various deployment models used for migration. Deployment Models 1. Single Site Model: In this model, the call processing agent is located at a single site and no telephony services are provided over IP-WAN. This implies that in case of IP-WAN failure or insufficient bandwidth, there is no loss of call processing service since each site is isolated and self-contained.  Small or mid-sized businesses deploy these models over ...

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Migration from TDM to IP telephony(Part 1): Hybrid Approach & Benefits

With regular upsurge of the global market, more and more enterprises are switching their ways to enhance the agility and adaptiveness to earn an edge in the current competitive world. Replacing outdated systems with the new ones helps you lower the cost with improvement in scalability and efficiency simultaneously. In such circumstance, upgrading devices to IP phones will be going to present you a myriad of benefits. Migration from TDM (Time-Division-Multiplexing) to IP telephony is a step taken towards Unified Communications. It brings convergence of network infrastructure, which implies that there won’t be disparate networks for voice, video, and data.  Talking ...

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Teleworker Solutions – Keeping Remote Employees Connected

Today, corporate people are focusing more on productivity rather than the workstation.Teleworking is becoming the new norm for the businesses. According to the stats of IPSOS, a global research company- “57% of Indian employees telecommute frequently, 32% work from home, and 25% are regular remote workers, who prefer weekends and evenings to work.” Moreover, it is the fact that nowadays, people opt for flexible teleworker solutions to impart much positive energies on both work and life, as compared to traveling & invite obstacles due to geography. Since enterprises are constantly looking out for the ways to unleash their productivity, ...

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