- The Business Case for Hybrid Network Unification
- Maximizing Performance, Continuity and IT savings
- Ipanema Technologies
Enterprises need uninterrupted business continuity for critical applications delivered over their global networks, but face an explosion of bandwidth requirements for less critical applications. Pressures on IT departments to reduce expenses are stronger than ever, making purchases of additional bandwidth difficult and often unaffordable. A solution gaining momentum in large enterprises is combining the carrier-class quality and availability of MPLS networks with the high-bandwidth capacity of a low-cost Internet VPN - a hybrid networking strategy.
While enterprises can better serve their business needs by deploying two or more WANs, questions arise about what trade-offs need to be made. At issue is not only the ability to create a hybrid network with MPLS and Internet VPN between datacenters and branch offices, but also the ability to control, optimize and accelerate applications combining the mutual benefits of each network with unified management.
Ipanema Hybrid Network Unification extends the concepts of WAN Governance to automatically monitor, control, accelerate and select the best paths for business applications across two or more networks. Enterprises that implement Ipanema Hybrid Network Unification:
- Guarantee unified application performance across [MPLS + Internet] networks
- Improve business communication continuity
- Exploit large network capacity at low cost
- Benefit from Internet immediacy and ubiquity
- Turn back-up lines into business lines
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Ipanema's "Hybrid Networking" is a "best of both worlds" solution.
Reality is that MPLS services are wonderful, but they are on the pricey side compared to Internet-based services. On the other hand, the low cost of Internet-based services comes with a degree of inherent risk.
This paper does a great job of explaining Ipanema's approach to "Hybrid Networking," an approach that actively uses both technologies while also providing backup.
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