The Hughes Managed SD-WAN service has been developed to enable digital transformation and overcome many of the current network challenges faced by legacy private networks deployed today. Organisations are seeking greater network flexibility, improved customer experience and greater operational efficiencies alongside trying to securely protect business and customer data. By providing predictable application performance across the Internet for cloud enablement, fast delivery of new services and cost savings from bandwidth optimisation, combined with high security at the edge, the Hughes Managed SD-WAN service helps to solve these challenges.
The Hughes Managed SD-WAN service leverages innovative Hughes ActiveTechnologies™ to transform ordinary broadband connections into enterprise-grade high performance WANs, including support for demanding streaming applications. These include:
- ActivePath™- which incorporates powerful algorithms and techniques that exploit the use of multiple network paths, ensuring applications are delivered without interruption across the secure WAN regardless of degradation on a single path
- ActiveQoS™- which continuously measures end-to-end capacity on broadband links, dynamically updating priority queues and traffic shapers to maximise each site’s bandwidth usage. This results in dramatically improved performance for VoIP and video traffic across all outlets, especially those with lower bandwidth service.
- ActiveClassifier™- which automatically and dynamically classifies traffic based on flow behavior, eliminating the time-consuming process of manually configuring and maintaining rules to classify and prioritise specific applications required by other SD-WAN products. This optimisation is particularly critical for real-time and cloud-based applications allowing this traffic to be prioritised over non-time sensitive data.
- ActiveCompression™- which reduces network congestion and improves application performance, especially at bandwidth-constrained sites.
Fortinet Inside - As well as developing ActiveTechnologies™ to provide performance optimisation of the WAN network, Hughes has built the platform on the Fortinet FortiGate Enterprise Firewall to provide the best protection against the most advanced security threats and targeted attacks.
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The Hughes Europe SD-WAN service can be adapted to meet specific business needs with solutions from Hughes based on the FortiGate 60 series enterprise firewall, Meraki, Cisco and Viprinet.
“With organisations continuing to adopt new cloud-based and rich media applications, networks are facing more traffic and stress than ever before,” said Chris O’Dell, vice president at Hughes Europe. “The Hughes Managed SD-WAN service combines innovative broadband optimisation technologies with the benefits of integrated service management, addressing the unique challenges of geographically dispersed organisations. As a leading provider of managed network services across the continent, Hughes Europe has the proven capability and innovative technologies to deliver multi-site organisations optimised network performance and high security, whilst keeping applications up even if the primary network path fails.”
