ngena
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The Challenge
Many companies are under great pressure to cut costs and optimize their investments in CAPEX and OPEX. At the same time, bandwidth demand is continually rising especially due to new Cloud and IoT applications and an increasing level of digitalization. Companies are therefore seeking new technologies that can increase their network performance while
simultaneously keeping down their costs.

The Solution
Today’s SD-WAN technologies already come with significant cost advantages if set up correctly. The ngena solution was built, in particular, to further optimize your enterprise’s network performance, and help you save money. As ngena offers cost-efficient hybrid Ethernet and Internet access, we estimate you can save 20% and more, just by replacing high cost MPLS lines with a cheaper access mix, i.e. a truly hybrid network. Moreover, the available bandwidth in ngena’s networks is typically higher because of an »active-active« vs. traditional »active-standby/backup« network designs, which means you can almost double your useable bandwidth without doubling cost. Compared with classical MPLS solutions, SD-WAN comes with additional functions at no or low additional cost: for example, you can retire expensive hardware devices for security or network visibility solutions and replace them with Virtual Network Functions instead. As ngena’s solution is a fully-managed service, our Secure Connectivity as-a-Service approach can help your company slash its operating costs by allowing your IT staff to concentrate on more urgent business needs, rather than managing the technical configuration of your network – which is then taken care of by ngena and its ecosystem partners. Overall, depending of the amount of integrated services and additional value-add, we estimate that with the ngena solution your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can be cut by 30% and more.

The Challenge
Today, a change to an existing enterprise network or the addition of new company sites can be very time consuming. Especially when you are using a relatively inflexible MPLS network, it can take months until new office locations or remote workforces can be added to your global WAN. The complexity is even higher when it comes to Mergers & Acquisitions and two separate company networks have to be merged into one. Especially when you are not using a fully managed service, your ICT teams can be overloaded with work. But as installation time is business-critical and influences your time-to-market, it’s crucial for your business to find a faster solution.

The Solution
The ngena service has been designed to reduce enterprise-network installation times by automating network configuration and maintenance tasks. Today, ngena can bring a medium-sized enterprise network into service within two weeks of receiving an order. Assuming the availability of Internet connectivity, and that the Customer Premise Equipments (CPEs) can be shipped in time. Network upgrades with private or additional Internet links can than follow in a second step. ngena uses a zero-touch provisioning process to add new sites or make changes to existing network architectures. This means that, once the CPE has arrived at your office, it auto-configures on power-up and no specialist skills are needed on-site; as long as the device can be plugged into its supply and the network cable is attached, the service is configured centrally. New branch offices will be online almost instantaneously, thereby significantly increasing the productivity of your company.

The Challenge
Today, it is often quite difficult to keep track of the status of your global Virtual Private Network (VPN) and to oversee what is going on in your company’s network. Monitoring your network health status is either not possible or can only be done by adding costly, additional hardware to your network operation center. But monitoring your network health status is essential if you are to avoid or mitigate operational disruptions and downtimes. In addition, you want to better understand which applications are driving your enterprise’s bandwidth demands, and where potential bottlenecks lead to poor performance and lower user satisfaction.

The Solution
ngena’s Secure Connectivity as a Service comes with sophisticated, built-in monitoring capabilities and dashboards that show you the health status of your global network in real-time within .connect. By using the leading-edge network analytics, your network services can be monitored and supervised in real-time. In addition, you can check whether all technical key performance indicators are within or outside the target values. Performance graphs show you the different health statuses over time, and help you identify potential bottlenecks or weaknesses. Should any incidents or major irregularities occur, an alarm will be triggered, and you will be notified immediately. Moreover, being able to see what is going on in every part of your global network will also allow you to improve the stability and reliability of your network and improve user satisfaction.

The Challenge
Today, Internet data represent a high percentage of your company’s WAN traffic and consume a huge amount of bandwidth. This type of traffic is constantly growing due to the usage of more and more Cloud based applications, such as Microsoft Office365 or Salesforce.com. In traditional VPNs, the Internet traffic is often backhauled from branch offices to a distant headquarter. But wouldn’t it make more sense to offload this Internet traffic locally instead of jamming your global WAN with it?

The Solution
Based on your company’s traffic profile, you can have the ideal access designs customized according to each site’s needs. This is because ngena offers a choice of single or redundant Internet Public Lines or Private Lines. These access designs come in easy-to-understand T-shirt size concepts from XS to XL+, giving your company the flexibility to select exactly the design needed for the traffic profile and level of redundancy of any office type – from a branch office to a data center or central headquarter. Along with this, ngena offers multiple ways of offloading business data to the Internet. You can use either Local Internet breakout directly from your sites, or utilize regional, secure Internet Breakout via ngena’s secure data centers. ngena edge routers provides a stateful firewall for direct outbound Internet access. Furthermore, up to advanced security with URL Filtering Malware protection we offer a direct integration to Zscaler’s or Cisco Umbrella’s Cloud gateway to enable secure local Internet access. With ngena’s suite of Cloud connectivity options and different access types to connect to the Internet, enterprises can reap the benefits of Cloud applications without having to worry about security or performance.