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June 26, 2024

Innovative Solutions for Small Businesses: Voice, Data, and Storage in a Single Box

According to Gartner’s study, SD-WAN adoption is increasing by the day, with 25% of companies adopting SD-WAN solutions post-pandemic. Yet, there is much left for many companies to optimise their solutions. The SD-WAN solutions can be customised to meet the organisation’s specific needs. For instance, some companies rely on customer service, which means the network must be optimised for voice. Data and storage are also crucial while you expand your business. Let’s start with SD-WAN for voice.

The benefits of SD-WAN for voice

  • With SD-WAN, you can enjoy consistent voice quality with the help of a centralised remote server. The SD-WAN solutions include WAN link redundancy and support seamless failover at the time of network failure to keep your calls active. SD-WAN provides reliability to provide scalable and cost-effective solutions and is a superior technology compared to MPLS and VPN./li>
  • SD-WAN provides top-of-the-rack security solutions with encryption technology and device authentication. Moreover, it facilitates quick detection of threats with real-time visibility and minimises damage during a breach. The feature is crucial for companies relying on cloud services.
  • Centralised management is a worthy feature to discuss about SD-WAN for voice. It provides increased control, giving the technical teams the ability to proactively manage traffic and allowing real-time monitoring of network performance.
  • Scalability is the key to business development. SD-WAN gives you the advantage of easy bandwidth upgrades. Moreover, it comes without any bandwidth penalties. New links can be added without any changes to the network infrastructure. Routing traffic does not result in congestion or high latency. Moreover, it improves the flexibility of global companies with a global setup. It is easy to integrate SD-WAN into the existing network infrastructure, such as MPLS and hybrid WANs, which are suitable for worldwide deployment irrespective of the existing infrastructure.

Businesses require specialised voice solutions.
Organisations require voice-oriented solutions for customer service, sales, and help desks. This is especially important for organisations dealing with heavy traffic, such as constrained bandwidth. Performance issues can arise in voice solutions when there is constrained bandwidth. Therefore, it is wise to adopt an exclusive voice solution for companies to prevent jitter, latency, and other network issues. Voice-based support teams can help troubleshoot the network faster. With SD-WAN’s easy integration capabilities, the company can run voice and data simultaneously.

SD-WAN for data
SD-WAN connects data across locations without compromising on performance, scalability, and reliability. It simplifies management via a centralised dashboard, providing visibility across networks. Traditional WANs use legacy routers to connect remote users to applications in data centres. SD-WAN is designed to resolve challenges related to traditional WANs. Now, networking professionals can optimise and secure the network connection in very simple ways. SD-WAN is software-based and can be configured to handle different kinds of real-time situations. It is easy to adapt to the ever-evolving situation.

Office-in-a-box
An office-in-a-box is a perfect solution for voice, data, and storage, especially for small offices. Now, organisations can invest in office-in-a-box instead of multiple service providers. Some of the features include instant cellular broadband for super-fast connectivity using 4G, LTE, 5G, and broadband. Embedded 5G modem with multi-redundant 4G LTE can be used as a fallback.

Wireless WAN provides centralised access for business-critical apps. It uses the cellular network to transmit voice, data and voice over long distances. Wireless WAN offers mobile connectivity, facilitating users’ access to the internet anywhere and at any time. Compared to traditional WAN, it is a cost-effective solution, especially for individuals and small offices. Since it depends on the existing cellular network, the connectivity is instant. With instant availability, the network is highly reliable. The coverage of Wireless WAN is extensive, and even in areas where coverage is poor, wireless WAN can easily connect.

Now, users can make global and domestic calls with SIP, which is loaded with telephone features. A firewall helps block or allow the listing of URLs.

The network box SD-WAN optimises network traffic and facilitates easy connectivity between head offices, remote offices, data centres, branch offices, and cloud applications, irrespective of network environment or connectivity type. With SD-WAN, you can enjoy secure on-premises network box devices and virtual cloud.

SMOAD Office in a Box is an innovative connectivity solution designed for small offices. Call us for a demo if you’d like to know more!