California Telecom SD-WAN Platform

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What is California Telecom SD-WAN Platform?

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Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Robert Beyers View profile

Director of IT in Information Technology at Hudson Valley Lighting Group (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have 3 warehouses that are on East Coast USA, West Coast USA, and the Philippines. The SD-WAN solution provided by California Telecom has allowed us to introduce higher levels of security and redundancy at each of those sites with a level of flexibility we did not have before.

Pair that with the 24/7 support we get from California Telecom's NOC team, and we get a much more secure edge with expert support.

Pros

Circuit Fail Over
Traffic Steering
Advanced Firewalling
Amazing Analytics

Cons

More user friendly analysis

Return on Investment

Tunnel down time to AWS environment reduced to nearly 0. In prior years it was nearly 20 hours of down time per year.

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used CalTel's SD-WAN as our Firewall and Internet Router.

CalTel replaced Windstream. The main issue we had with Windstream was both their unreliable service (we had a outage at a site every month) and unhelpful support (we would know more of the problem and what the problem was before Windstreams support).

Since we migrated to CalTel, all our sites have internet redundancy to prevent outages, more proactive on maintenance and preventative maintenance, and knowledgeable support.

Pros

Inovative infratructure for scalability and realiability.
More cost-effective from service to support
Proactive monitoring
Knowledgeable engineers
Seemless implementation

Cons

Jim G. works well with executive staff in discovering ways to meet requirement, implement a more scalable technology, while still being cost-effective. Jim will need to replicate himself in order to be able to have others to do this type of work instead.

Return on Investment

Moving from Windstream system to CalTel cut gave us a monthly savings of $371K /yr for our phone and internet expenses.
It also allowed us to be more proactive when a circuit has trouble and allowed us to have redundancy.
Also allowed us to easily migrate our servers to a Data-Center and manage the traffic.

Alternatives Considered

Windstream Cloud Connect

Other Software Used

FortiSASE

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN

Fortinet FortiGate

HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN

California Telecom SD-WAN Platform

What is California Telecom SD-WAN Platform?

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