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24x7 NBD On-Site Service Support

As a local coverage service with extensive global coverage, GoSDWAN's 24x7 NBD On Site Service supports (next business day support-NBD Support) next business day service after acceptance. For non-major interruptive businesses, especially spare parts recovery and replacement, or on-site engineer support for manufacturers, 24x7 NBD On-Site Support can arrange customer-specified on-site NBD support (Stand by), which helps them plan their business maintenance time and business disruption window to minimize uncontrollable situations.

24x7 NBD On-Site Service Support requires customers to sign a service contract in advance and register the address where the emergency onsite service is needed, and specify the language and skills required for the onsite engineer, as well as the tools to be carried, and even the necessary regional spare parts inventory plan can be negotiated with GoSDWAN sd wan professional services.

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RMA Support

Since the client hardware used for SD-WAN/SASE services is usually leased, GoSDWAN RMA Support can assist SD-WAN/SASE service providers to return the product under warranty for hardware replacement or repair when it needs to be returned to the factory for repair, and the whole-process inventory and logistics can be achieved by GoSDWAN sd wan managed service provider global support network. The two parties can decide how to proceed, either for refund, replacement or repair.

According to the RMA support definition and RMA support meaning, RMA is a key link in the reverse logistics cycle. Since returns are costly for suppliers and inconvenient for customers, by partnering with GoSDWAN, SD-WAN/SASE service providers can quickly establish their own RMA mechanism globally, to ensure that the return policy is implemented to the benefit of both parties.

Obtain an RMA number: GoSDWAN will then assess the issue and determine whether it falls within the scope of their warranty or return policy. If the product is eligible for a return, GoSDWAN will provide the customer with an RMA number.

Pack and ship the product: The customer will then need to pack the product securely and ship it back to GoSDWAN, along with the RMA number.

Inspection and repair/replacement: Upon receipt, GoSDWAN will inspect the product to determine the cause of the issue. If the product is found to be defective, GoSDWAN will repair or replace it. If the product is not covered by the warranty or return policy, the customer may be responsible for paying any repair or replacement fees.

Return shipping: The repaired or replaced product will then be shipped back to the customer.

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Edge Computing in Shipping Area

Edge computing in transportation is effectively used because of the reduction of delay. GOSDWAN provides sd wan professional services for shipping edge computing for worldwide transportation companies.

Company F - Industry - Leading Airlines Group

Company F is a domestic branch of a major airlines group in Asia Pacific and the largest travel retailer in the region. With more than 30 brands and a total turnover in tens of billions of USD worldwide, Company F develops leisure and commercial travel businesses in approximately 23 countries including Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Asia, and also runs a global business travel management network.

Through an application programming interface (API), Company F's online platform integrates bookings, planning information and real-time location data into a social and mobile tool for travelers. Company F is the industry's leading provider of travel technology solutions featuring New Distribution Capability (NDC), and a member of the "One-click Order" campaign launched by International Air Transport Association's (IATA).Here we recommend industrial edge computing from GoSD-WAN.

GOSDWAN's Innovation in Transportation & Shipping Edge Computing

Business Continuity

Under the impact of COVID-19, the logistics and transportation industries are struggling with unprecedented pressure for business continuity. A single public safety incident can be followed by a large number of itinerary modifications, and for companies that place a high value on customer experience, it is necessary to establish a front-end architecture based on multiple public clouds, in order to use online tools to interact with customers online at all times, to complete cross-platform aggregation queries without interruption, and to maintain sufficient processing resilience in the system in the event of a sudden increase in operations.

Mobility Support

The logistics and transportation industries require mobility support not only for the platform in customer service interaction interfaces beyond travel agencies and service counters but also for the field staff working on the front lines. With limited mobility, the company's internal application platform must be extended outward to non-office areas and support executives and authorized personnel with sensitive information in in gaining relevant permissions to perform data updates and maintenance work. Support for mobility is reflected not only in the friendliness to terminal access of different platforms such as Andriod, IOS, and Windows but also in the redefinition of security boundaries, as well as the management of identity recognition and identification of traffic intent at the edge of the enterprise's intranet. After all, during COVID-19, network security issues such as middleman attacks and social engineering show no signs of fading away.

Differentiation Between Traffic Application Types

The logistics and transportation industries need to optimize cost management to the greatest degree. On the basis of a shared underlying network, the traffic of the network needs to be identified and categorized by labels, and traffic of different classifications require different traffic paths of varying weightage and performance guarantee mechanisms. For critical and sensitive data, redundant and high-quality paths can be taken in transmission to guarantee high availability and security, while non-critical data can be transmitted through lower-level Internet channels.

Multiple Data Sources

The information elements of the logistics and transportation industries come in large quantities not only from vehicles, flights and logistics stations in the transportation grid, but also from upstream and downstream subcontracting platforms, bank clearing houses, government public data platforms, etc. Both logistics and transportation industries are establishing centralized and unified data views, abstracting all key business operational elements into computable and programmable elements, and introducing big data and AI processing and analytics to improve operational efficiency and reduce the costs of operation and control. Stable interfacing of multiple data sources secure identity authentication, and low-cost offsite data archiving centers are all necessary to support enterprises in building powerful analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The implementation of this scalable solution will ultimately optimize communication and perception between enterprises and its users.

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Cloud Exchange

GoSDWAN, a professional cloud exchange provider, offers private cloud exchange for enterprises that in favor of the "multi-cloud" strategy tend to build channels with large bandwidth and redundancy protection to connect with public cloud platforms, while the channels connected with public clouds are able to switch bandwidth in different public cloud directions. Simply put, it means the interconnection of core channel multiplexing with the public cloud with the features of security, high availability and flexible scheduling.

As one of the leading cloud exchange providers, GoSDWAN's Cloud Exchange service provides products with the mesh interconnection capability based on the SDN multi cloud connectivity technology, helping enterprises build virtual private networks on IP networks, meeting the demand for fast, flexible and reliable interconnection between regions and PoPs, which is suitable for large and complex multi-region connectivity scenarios, such as the networking of organizations with multiple data centers, multiple clouds and multiple branch offices.

Features and Benefits of GoSDWAN Private Cloud Exchange

Transmission layer security

High availability

Support burstable billing

Global presence

Comparing the Cloud Exchange and Direct Cloud Connectivity

Cloud Exchange and Direct Cloud Connectivity are two different approaches to connecting to cloud services.

Cloud Exchange, also known as Cloud Access Point or Cloud Exchange Point, provides a way for organizations to connect to multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) through a single point of access. This approach helps to simplify the process of connecting to cloud services, as organizations only need to make a single connection to the cloud exchange, instead of connecting to each CSP individually. This can be beneficial for organizations that use multiple cloud services, as it reduces the time and effort required to manage multiple connections.

Direct Cloud Connectivity, on the other hand, refers to a direct connection between an organization's network and the network of a CSP. This approach provides a dedicated and highly secure connection to the cloud service, which can improve performance and reduce latency compared to a connection over the public internet. Direct cloud connectivity is typically used by organizations that require high levels of security and performance for their cloud-based applications and workloads.

In summary, the choice between Cloud Exchange and Direct Cloud Connectivity will depend on an organization's specific requirements to cloud exchange providers, such as the number of cloud services used, the importance of security and performance, and the level of control needed over the connection.

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Cloud Exchange

GoSDWAN, a professional cloud exchange provider, offers private cloud exchange for enterprises that in favor of the "multi-cloud" strategy tend to build channels with large bandwidth and redundancy protection to connect with public cloud platforms, while the channels connected with public clouds are able to switch bandwidth in different public cloud directions. Simply put, it means the interconnection of core channel multiplexing with the public cloud with the features of security, high availability and flexible scheduling.

As one of the leading cloud exchange providers, GoSDWAN's Cloud Exchange service provides products with the mesh interconnection capability based on the SDN multi cloud connectivity technology, helping enterprises build virtual private networks on IP networks, meeting the demand for fast, flexible and reliable interconnection between regions and PoPs, which is suitable for large and complex multi-region connectivity scenarios, such as the networking of organizations with multiple data centers, multiple clouds and multiple branch offices.

Features and Benefits of GoSDWAN Private Cloud Exchange

Transmission layer security

High availability

Support burstable billing

Global presence

Comparing the Cloud Exchange and Direct Cloud Connectivity

Cloud Exchange and Direct Cloud Connectivity are two different approaches to connecting to cloud services.

Cloud Exchange, also known as Cloud Access Point or Cloud Exchange Point, provides a way for organizations to connect to multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) through a single point of access. This approach helps to simplify the process of connecting to cloud services, as organizations only need to make a single connection to the cloud exchange, instead of connecting to each CSP individually. This can be beneficial for organizations that use multiple cloud services, as it reduces the time and effort required to manage multiple connections.

Direct Cloud Connectivity, on the other hand, refers to a direct connection between an organization's network and the network of a CSP. This approach provides a dedicated and highly secure connection to the cloud service, which can improve performance and reduce latency compared to a connection over the public internet. Direct cloud connectivity is typically used by organizations that require high levels of security and performance for their cloud-based applications and workloads.

In summary, the choice between Cloud Exchange and Direct Cloud Connectivity will depend on an organization's specific requirements to cloud exchange providers, such as the number of cloud services used, the importance of security and performance, and the level of control needed over the connection.

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SD-WAN Edge Computing in Manufacturing

Corporation J - Leading U.S.-Funded Pharmaceutical Company

Company J is a US-funded international biopharmaceutical industry leader that is building a global system for new drug R&D and manufacturing services. By empowering global pharmaceutical, biotechnological and medical device companies, Company J expands its services in fields such as chemical drug R&D and manufacturing, medical device testing. With a business platform for R&D innovation projects around the world, it shares industry databases with many research institutions and universities to build a comprehensive data warehouse of case studies and test samples.

Company J is currently seeking to integrate its production processes with digital transformation practices, and after introducing sd wan pro services and technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud and big data analytics, to collect a large amount of data for the performance of machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms in fault prediction, quality assurance, etc. The basis for the convergence of these SD-WAN edge computing technologies is connectivity. Highly secure, flexible and cost-effective intelligent connectivity SD-WAN edge computing is critical, especially the reconfiguration of connectivity between heterogeneous cloud platforms. Here we recommend industrial edge computing from GoSD-WAN.

Recommended Smart Cloud Connect Solutions & Services

Multi-cloud Peering

Peer-to-peer direct connection with public cloud platforms, light load traffic, independent of Internet channels, Layer-3 BGP routing

Cloud Exchange

Layer 2 mesh multi-cloud connectivity with flexible bandwidth provisioning

ZNTA/SASE Landing

Assist customers to quickly implement ZNTA/SASE solutions with sophisticated service components for agile iteration.

GOSDWAN's Innovation in SD-WAN Manufacturing

Multi-cloud Interconnection

New SD-Wan Manufacturing is characterized by diversified ecosystem and globalization. The industrial links become more refined, and different ecosystem partners from upstream and downstream links cooperate to achieve the simple goal of reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and balancing supply and demand. Globalization lies in pursuing higher price-performance ratio. To fulfil above two demands, enterprises in the wave of digital transformation with data as the carrier, become more relying on cloud computing and interworking of various kind of cloud products on even different cloud platforms across a broader geographical area.

Low-latency, Light-load Inter-cloud Routing

Public clouds usually have better multi-line Internet egress and larger bandwidth, but it is difficult for cloud providers to guarantee bandwidth SLA for a single tenant. Multiple clouds, especially intercontinental public clouds, can only be synchronized through Direct Cloud Connection based on international lines.  But adding hard links is not the most cost-efficient solution for new SD-WAN manufacturing customers.  The SD-WAN can accelerate synchronization between heterogeneous public clouds with low-latency, light-load inter-cloud routing without involving dedicated lines, and such routing can be deployed on-demand and on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Software-defined Security

Systems of different enterprises, although in a common ecosystem, have their own security policies, asset management, and logs to guide task scheduling, decision-making, and distributing instructions. The benefits of digitization and automation are self-evident. However, new  SD-WAN manufacturing enterprises also need system security protection measures based on security domain.  Frequent manual adjustments of device policies for various access requests bring huge workload to the security management teams. A default feature of SD-WAN software-defined security is to describe security policies in the business language based on the business label, with physical device operations and translation done by the intermediate controller, achieving refined security management in a secure and cost-efficient way.

Edge Computing

As edge computing reduces network latency, container facilities such as small data centers deployed close to operational sites such as workshops, cab effectively avoid risks resulted from decision latency. In addition to cost reduction in hardware and infrastructure, the value of SD-WAN lies in high-frequency detection of network performance and path mapping to enhance latency awareness. When the network become worse, certain application information is processed on-site rather than being sent to the data center or the cloud via long path, making the data processing more responsive.

Edge Computing Manufacturing Technical Design Highlights

Heterogeneous Cloud Gateway

uCPE is directly generated inside different public cloud VPCs and managed by managed SD-WAN network at the edge of uCPE in the cloud. Transmission performance data of different customer interfaces is mapped in the customer’s visual network management background to provide latency, packet loss, jitter, and application analysis reports periodically.

Cross-region Inter-cloud Lateral (east-west) Routing Optimization

Without building dedicated lines, the original latency of hundreds of milliseconds is reduced to tens of milliseconds, thereby expanding the transmission capacity, which was previously a bottleneck, by several times.

High Redundancy Design

With end-to-end redundancy design of the whole network, when the latency index deteriorates, services are automatically switches to a backup path to ensure high availability of the production network.

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Edge Computing in Retail Industry

Company A is a world-renowned sports brand with extremely popular products. Headquartered in Europe, it has thousands of stores in the Greater China region, the only region that has maintained high business growth in recent years.

With the rapid growth of online e-commerce business models in the Greater China region, and the effect of COVID-19 and rental on physical stores, the customer drove the digital transformation of its internal IT architecture, increased access to its online platforms, enhanced the accuracy of advertising through data marketing, and streamlined the costs of physical stores in a timely manner.

At the network level, the customer's demand was to maintain the traditional MPLS VPN network deployment but with a steady decrease in investment, and to deploy SD-WAN in all new branches and subsidiaries.

Recommended Smart Cloud Connect Solutions & Services

Hybrid WAN Adoption

Solve the key challenges of hybrid networking between the traditional MPLS VPN structure and SD-WAN network multiplanes.

uCPE Rental

Helps obtain unified uCPE management service to support SDN/SD-WAN/SASE

for each branch office with the global reach.

SD-WAN PoC-as-a-Service

Assist customers to quickly implement SD-WAN POC, isolate from the production environment, and obtain the actual evaluation results of the solution.

GOSDWAN's Innovation in Edge Computing for Retail

Cost-effective networking and flexible leasing

SD-WAN solution is based on the light load deployment of the customer's dia dedicated internet access lines, which can be rented and billed flexibly, and the bandwidth is not limited by the capacity of traditional dedicated lines, and multiple labels can be applied and integrated for cost-effective Internet egress.

Network redundancy and multiplexing backups

SD-WAN uCPE devices support 3G/4G/5G uplink channel synchronization, which greatly reduces the customer's cost in link backup.

Global layout and cloud acceleration

The customer's data flow interoperates with a large number of mainstream SaaS applications through the SD-WAN network, gaining the support of applications such as Salesforce, Shopify, etc., and also the support of processing functions such as machine learning and big data analysis on Microsoft Azure, which can speed up decision analysis.

Software-defined security and agile network

The network design integrates internal network traffic and external Internet applications, where SD-WAN solution's definable labels lead potentially risky traffic to critical nodes for processing, while the egress of each branch and subsidiary directly applies software firewall to enhance security definition and control at the edge.

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Vmware Infrastructure

With the highest market share in the virtualization field today, VMware's Exsi series offers the broadest commercial support for NFV components that most NFV providers can deploy on top of VMware's virtualization. VMware vCloud NFV also provides a platform to support communications service providers in their network modernization and business transformation goals. vCloud NFV platform's abstracted, modular design supports multi-tenancy, multi-domain and mixed physical and virtual execution environments. The latest version of vCloud Director for Service Providers exposes the IaaS layer to provide a sustainable integration environment for workload lifecycle management.

GoSDWAN orchestrates resource pool supply services that support VMware based computing power as part of intelligent edge computing, while an autonomous, neutral network policy allows these nodes to not only provide their own networks but also access third-party networks to address coverage issues caused by underperforming networks.

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Unified IP Fabric

Today, many WAN optimization algorithms are used in enterprise WAN networks. However, not all IP packets are ideally optimized, especially when the data plane encounters network congestion.

GoSDWAN's approach is to create a high-quality computing network (Cloud First Network) by combining network nodes for edge computing with low-latency line systems (e.g. IPLC, IEPL), allowing the underlying traffic to bypass bottlenecks where congestion often occurs. Accordingly, GoSDWAN offers a PoP-as-a-Service cloud gateway service. The paths between the cloud gateways are guaranteed with the service level agreement (SLA) and well optimized in a dedicated system with redundancy measures. Moreover, the cloud gateway node is SD-WAN ready (X86 Merchant Silicon) and can support most SD-WAN solution providers' network functions virtualization (NFV) suites.

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RMA Support

Since the client hardware used for SD-WAN/SASE services is usually leased, GoSDWAN RMA Support can assist SD-WAN/SASE service providers to return the product under warranty for hardware replacement or repair when it needs to be returned to the factory for repair, and the whole-process inventory and logistics can be achieved by GoSDWAN's global support network. The two parties can decide how to proceed, either for refund, replacement or repair.

RMA is a key link in the reverse logistics cycle. Since returns are costly for suppliers and inconvenient for customers, by partnering with GoSDWAN, SD-WAN/SASE service providers can quickly establish their own RMA mechanism globally, to ensure that the return policy is implemented to the benefit of both parties.

Features and Benefits of GoSDWAN RMA Support

Global presence

Closed-loop management

Support for global spare parts inventory

24X7 rapid response

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NaaS Adoption (Enterprise)

As the world moves into the post-pandemic era, every company's IT is leaning towards the development of "Lean IT" and abandoning too many tedious and useless controls. If IT services do not contribute values to business services, then IT services are the root cause for waste. Faced with the increasing demand for telecommuting and increasingly complex cyber threat challenges, Network as a Service (NaaS) has become a silver bullet. NaaS is a cloud-enabled, subscription-based consumption model that allows users to acquire and orchestrate the network ability without owning, building, or maintaining their own infrastructure. In the transition from traditional networks to new network models (e.g. SD-WAN/ZTNA/ SASE), NaaS can help IT teams achieve better business objectives such as agility, availability, scalability, rather than building a larger infrastructure and get a balance between CapEx and OpEx.

Triggers for enterprise Netops teams to adopt NaaS include multi-cloud access and deployment, and security-centric application features (e.g. CASB, SWG, ZTNA, SIEM, IDS/IPS). Conducting small-scale trials among trusted partners, however, is the best practice for introducing new ideas. NaaS Adaption is a service provided by GoSDWAN to assist customers in network lifecycle planning, consulting and management, helping enterprise customers get the ideal solution from NaaS providers by sorting out and re-engineering the user's infrastructure elements and business processes, developing service level agreement (SLA), elastic bandwidth policies, application performance, security provisions, compliance and other requirements. In this process, professional services work closely with NaaS providers in a system integration manner to optimize network design, strategy, performance, etc. and help customers establish a lean IT value stream with data intelligent management as the core.

Features and Benefits of GoSDWAN NaaS Adoption (Enterprise)

Proprietary tool platform

Expert team

Continuous optimization methodology

Well-established global supply chain support

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Multi-cloud Peering

In addition to connecting with ISPs' networks, the public cloud is also conducting peering around the world. Through these interconnected systems, a quality channel with light load and zero interference from routers of other networks is available. Customers can access the nearby backbone network provided by GoSDWAN. After acceleration, the peering channel in the public cloud is created using the Layer 3 BGP policy, enabling a private domain that can be accessed by multiple clouds.

Unlike the open Internet, which is vulnerable to cyber-attacks, GoSDWAN's Multi-cloud Peering still adopts TCP/IP protocols, but shields the intrusion of irrelevant traffic routing at the network level, and the cloud address is only used for virtual tunnel construction. With the "one-stop" management portal, Multi-cloud Peering also allows customers to implement basic deployment for cloud-network synergy using NFV solutions.

Features and Benefits of GoSDWAN Multi-cloud Peering

Fast networking

Multi-cloud access

Cost-effectiveness

Sufficient resilience

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Company D - Big Insurance Group

Company D is a medium-large insurance company approved by China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission with a registered capital of billions in CNY, its business focused on life insurance, capital management, property insurance and trusts. Compared with traditional finance, the economic background of new finance is the intelligentization of "Industry 4.0", and the corresponding production factors are information and data. The new financial formats of online e-commerce, social networking, services and media require Company D to build an IT architecture that supports more diversified edge scenarios and meets the demand for security, control and high availability.

With thousands of insurance brokers, a wide distribution of many outlets across a large number of locations outside the office, Company D needs to guarantee business security and smooth sales experience. For such business systems, it is difficult to establish a network through an expensive dedicated line system, and an open Internet architecture cannot secure financial business processes, not to mention multiple problems in connecting internal and external systems, complex operations, maintenance and management, and high labor costs.

GOSDWAN's Innovation in New Finance

Edge Security

Edge nodes of new finance are usually accessed through the Internet and the mobile Internet with potential security risks and unstable network quality. Enterprises generally need secure edge nodes with encrypted front-end devices to ensure the "last mile" of users is safe and smooth. That means, any accesses to edge nodes are authenticated and judged according to security polices configured on the control plane (basically ready for the deployment of a Zero Trust Architecture).

Fast Delivery

New finance also features various channels and types of sales terminals. Branches have large differences in infrastructures, including different gateway types, link types and service requirements. The SD-WAN based zero-touch-provisioning enables automatic service distribution, self-service management of links and services, rich fault diagnosis and preventative maintenance tools, which significantly simplifies the deployment of a massive number of branches.

Link Load Distribution

The private lines of traditional financial business' production network carry fewer services and lighter loads with smooth traffic. It has large bandwidth to cope with traffic surge but with low bandwidth utilization. Whereas, there are various business types and complex applications at the Internet egress, which leads to frequent traffic overload and congestion. Aggregate management of link capacity and redistribution of load is yet another important feature of SD-WAN, allowing enterprises to reduce bandwidth for private lines and increase it for Internet egress. The QoS parameters such as network latency, jitter and packet loss of the lines are detected by SDWAN uCPE to ensure traffic scheduling when one of the private lines has traffic congestion or network failures, the application will be switched to another private linewithin seconds.

WAN Optimization and Acceleration

Due to high cost, slow deployment and complicated maintenance of traditional dedicated lines, it is not recommended to deploy dedicated lines for the massive number of non-core outlets of new finance. Instead, the Internet is used as the carrier, and the WAN acceleration function is deployed to compress, de-duplicate and optimize protocols for a QoS transmission performance close to that of a dedicated line. However, the traditional WAN optimization device is a standalone device, and WAN optimization in SD-WAN is a default software function, so customers can achieve traffic optimization and acceleration without additional cost.

Highlights of Technical Design In New Finance

Support for Application-based Service Identification

The system identifies the targeted application of network traffic, redefines the traffic according to service attributes (develop labeling rules), and performs traffic scheduling according to service policies. Security policies such as URL filtering, IPS detection, and firewalls are configured to safeguard critical services in priority, and intelligent routing and traffic policies for non-critical services to guarantee service quality and experience.

Zero-touch-provisioning

Before service delivery, site survey data are aggregated to online customer network management to generate the overall configuration scheme. The site configuration can be distributed from the service scheduler to the corresponding white box device at the site after being connected with the network, realizing site on-boarding without professional supports on-site.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

With the VPN Server function configured at a branch-level site, a secure and reliable transmission tunnel, through centralized remote configuration, can be established between user terminals outside the office and the IPSec tunnel on the Internet. When the business volume of the sites increases, the solution can be further optimized and upgraded by deploying NFV products such as Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and cloud-based firewall at the corresponding branch sites to support the access needs of complex services.

uCPE Service Chain

Next-generation firewall, VPN Server, IPS/IDS (Integrated Threat Intelligence Subscription) and WAN optimization capabilities in the form of NFV products are provided based on software subscription model at the uCPE location without increasing hardware investment at branch sites.

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Company A - Listed Retail Chain

Company A is a world-renowned sports brand with extremely popular products. Headquartered in Europe, it has thousands of stores in the Greater China region, the only region that has maintained high business growth in recent years.

With the rapid growth of online e-commerce business models in the Greater China region, and the effect of COVID-19 and rental on physical stores, the customer drove the digital transformation of its internal IT architecture, increased access to its online platforms, enhanced the accuracy of advertising through data marketing, and streamlined the costs of physical stores in a timely manner.

At the network level, the customer's demand was to maintain the traditional MPLS VPN network deployment but with a steady decrease in investment, and to deploy SD-WAN in all new branches and subsidiaries.

GOSDWAN's Innovation in Chain Retailer

Cost-effective networking and flexible leasing

SD-WAN solution is based on the light load deployment of the customer's DIA (dedicated Internet access) lines, which can be rented and billed flexibly, and the bandwidth is not limited by the capacity of traditional dedicated lines, and multiple labels can be applied and integrated for cost-effective Internet egress.

Network redundancy and multiplexing backups

SD-WAN uCPE devices support 3G/4G/5G uplink channel synchronization, which greatly reduces the customer's cost in link backup.

Global layout and cloud acceleration

The customer's data flow interoperates with a large number of mainstream SaaS applications through the SD-WAN network, gaining the support of applications such as Salesforce, Shopify, etc., and also the support of processing functions such as machine learning and big data analysis on Microsoft Azure, which can speed up decision analysis.

Software-defined security and agile network

The network design integrates internal network traffic and external Internet applications, where SD-WAN solution's definable labels lead potentially risky traffic to critical nodes for processing, while the egress of each branch and subsidiary directly applies software firewall to enhance security definition and control at the edge.

Highlights of Technical Design In Chain Retailer

Fast Launch

With the agile design and deployment of SD-WAN Enterprise Networking, SaaS Application Acceleration, SD-Branch and Intranet Optimization, Cloud Direct Connect and other mature modular solutions, implementation in more than ten business nodes nationwide and some overseas business nodes was completed within one month to meet the needs of rapid delivery for high-volume and small-scale sites in the retail industry.

Cloud Acceleration

The customer's business nodes are widely distributed, and considering the geographical location of branches, to make use of the advantages of cloud applications, the route from business nodes to the cloud needs to be accurately reconfigured, without dependance on the default route of the Internet.

All-in-one Terminal Device

The edge access device on the client-side adopts the standard white box platform and extends the corresponding kit, so the all-in-one terminal device integrates all the functions needed in traditional ICT model networking such as routing and switching, 4G backup links, wireless coverage and firewall, etc. The hardware achieves main and backup redundancy to meet the high availability needs of the site while significantly reducing the cost.

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Company C-Century-Old Power Giant

Company C is one of the largest private power companies in the Asia-Pacific region with a history of operating for over 100 years. It has invested in over 20 business nodes in the mainland of China, ranging from power generation, transmission to distribution.

Sustainable development and low-carbon environmental protection are integral part of its core corporate values. It is committed to gaining more proactive and smarter IT governance control capabilities through digital transformation solutions, for greater improvements in production management, industrial design, control assistance, and even new technologies such as Internet of Things.

GOSDWAN's Innovation in New and Renewable Energy

From rigid tunnels to flexible networks

The Industrial Internet results from the convergence of production and computing, analytics, sensing technologies, and Internet connectivity. By connecting intelligent machines and ultimately connecting people and machines, in combination with software and big data analytics, companies can work more efficiently, economically, environmental friendly and with safer management. Therefore, the ability to provide larger and more flexible bandwidth channels to meet the need of business developments, and to interconnect data elements across the network with key cloud-based applications in real time is the underlying logic of digital transformation for new energy companies.

Network management visualization

The diversity of network structures inevitably generates a large number of network elements and links, and inefficiency and deviation easily occur on the service as well as device side. To realize network intelligence, new industrial enterprises need compatible monitoring and alerting tools for business logic. At least two basic features, application label customization and collection depth customization, are required at project introduction to effectively support intelligent network visualization outside the framework of traditional network management.

Data cloud and business automation

Digital transformation leads to the exponential expansion of data held by the enterprise, and unifying it in the traditional data center for statistical analysis, computation and mining is expensive and difficult. Intelligent enterprises will build a global view of data assets, and the collection, summary, analysis, mining and archiving of human-machine data will be done more at the edge, with a more balanced dynamic scheduling based on the link and computing resource overhead of the whole network.

Network redundancy and multiplexing backups

Industrial enterprises usually keep the original network composed of private lines such as MPLS VPN or IEPL for the use of the original information system and some critical latency-sensitive applications, but at the same time use the newly expanded SD-WAN network capacity as a carrier for non-critical applications and a backup channel for critical applications. Therefore, the LAN and WAN of service nodes will give priority to MPLS VPN + SD-WAN dual-active Hybrid WAN mode, and ensure that the traffic has redundancy structure at the core routing level to guarantee high availability.

Highlights of Technical Design In New and Renewable Energy

Seamless connection to existing network and multi-data platform handover

The new SD-WAN network and the existing MPLS-VPN network are seamlessly connected at each business node through SD-Branch and intranet optimization. The SD-WAN solution takes over the definition, scheduling and routing of service traffic to form a Hybrid WAN architecture.

High availability design

Based on end-to-end redundancy design, the SD-WAN solution delivers 99.99% network availability and automatic service switchover for disaster recovery. Its monitoring background performs real-time monitoring of key indicators to sense service jitters.

Customized SaaS network management

The single-tenant SaaS Network Management system, independently designed and deployed for the customer, highlights key indicators concerned by the customer and supports configuring alarm thresholds. It automatically generates service performance reports regularly in a configured format.

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DIA Wholesale

Corporate Internet uplink egresses have become very diverse and a branch office has to apply for multiple bandwidths to maintain business continuity and to ensure that business is not interrupted due to ISP issues. With the rise of 4G/5G networks, enterprise data packages is becoming the enterprise Internet solution, especially when Internet of Things (IoT) devices are interconnected with the intranet, playing an irreplaceable role in backup links for end-point devices.

As part of SD-WAN best practices, GoSDWAN's DIA wholesale service can help enterprises find one-stop solutions for 'last mile' access, especially those with cumbersome application and management procedures, confusing accounting and link invisibility. The service is a fundamental part of the SD-WAN solution.