Globe launches fully integrated cloud-based Wide Area Network

Globe Telecom, Inc. last week introduced a new technology, SoftwareDefined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), so its enterprise clients can move better and expand faster using an affordable, easy-to-deploy, corporate data network

Globe Business, the information and communications technology arm of Globe, is pioneering SD-WAN in the Philippines.

“We continue to modernize and expand our corporate data network, ensuring that it is future-ready to offer businesses the services and solutions they need even in remote areas in the country,” stressed Gil Genio, Globe Chief Technology and Information Officer.

“SD-WAN revolutionizes how corporate data networks in the Philippines are defined. It would enable us to reach places we’ve never been before, capitalizing on both our broadband and corporate data network,” he added.

SD-WAN simplifies the way enterprises and growing businesses manage and expand their corporate network via a plug-and-play device leveraging on cloud-based technology.

The service ensures faster deployment, business agility, and enhanced visibility to empower enterprises to manage their network operations.

Businesses can have a better understanding of infrastructure and IT traffic flow plus a faster, simpler, more secure way of setting up new branches with greater control over network and business requirements.

Globe SD-WAN complements the telco’s existing Wide Area Network (WAN) and Internet Protocol – Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) connections.

This capability lets enterprises adapt to relevant scenarios or address customers’ needs anytime. Companies can also experience optimal connectivity through automated rerouting of traffic across the most efficient routes and connections.

For instance, banks with multiple branches and automated teller machines (ATMs) nationwide can now build secure, reliable, and efficient network connections with Globe SD-WAN.

Banks can run real-time applications and transactions on multiple connections to their branches and ATMs that leverage on an intelligent system.

Should a link fail, applications on bank transactions and operations will continue to run using all available bandwidth in the other connections to ensure business continuity.

Companies can also re-route to SDWAN non-mission critical activities such as video conferencing calls, emails, live video streaming, among others to free up bandwidth from the corporate data network.

The service will likewise enable Globe to abide by its commitment to create intelligent cities and an Internet superhighway.