Connecting Multiple Offices
The ability to connect multiple site locations can greatly enhance productivity and efficiency for your business.
With MPLS and other connectivity solutions, you can:
- Have more control over your network infrastructure
- Ensure performance of demanding applications
- Put in place a major piece of your disaster recovery plan
- Reduce costs and improve manageability and performance of Wide Area Networks (WANs)
- Efficiently move information between locations
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) utilizes the latest technology to seamlessly connect multiple office locations. MPLS is fully meshed and ties all locations together, regardless of the transport method used for each location.
Network administrators are able to set the priority for each label assigned to a data packet, making forwarding and priority decisions for voice, video and data applications.
While MPLS provides an efficient method of connecting office locations, it also offers many other benefits, including:
- Simplified connectivity and increased company-wide network efficiency
- Built in disaster recovery - Because each site acts as a "host," no location is ever isolated, enabling continuous access to systems and data
- Quality of Service (QoS) - MPLS manages QoS by prioritizing voice and video packets, saving your staff time from doing it at the router level
Click here for an in-depth, graphic look at MPLS.
MPLS for Beginners: Read our Blog Post
MPLS for Experts: Read our Blog Post
Want to know how MPLS has helped other SDN customers? Click the links below to read the case studies:
- Farley's & Sathers - SDN helped ease the transition for newly purchased plants and distribution centers
- Liberty National Bank - MPLS helped clear the way for business expansion
- South Dakota Army National Guard - see how SDN helped connect 42 different locations, improving efficiency and integration
- Performance Data Center - PDC used MPLS to unify and connect 50 locations in 10 states.
SDN also offers these legacy transport methods:Ethernet - Provides dynamically scalable bandwidth, which means it's easy to increase or decrease bandwidth in 1 Megabit per second (Mbps) increments with no service interruption. This eliminates the need for businesses to be locked into fixed amounts of IP bandwidth that can be under utilized. (3Mbps - Gig)
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode carries traffic of various speeds and lets you prioritize your network capability on a site-by-site basis. It easily interfaces with Frame Relay technology. (DS1- OC3)
Frame Relay - Delivers for multiple office locations sharing data on a scalable circuit. It allows you to allocate bandwidth to each location, customizing their individual needs. (DS0 - DS3)
Private Line - Share data between two or more offices with this dedicated, non-switched technology. It provides the speed, reliability, and security on fixed bandwidths. (DS1 - OC192)
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