Traditional WAN networks are complex, expensive, and increasingly difficult to secure. Modern enterprises, operating globally and leveraging cloud and mobile resources, require high performance connectivity and next-gen security in order to thrive. These demands on networks are becoming hard to meet.

SD-WAN as a Service by Open Systems is purpose-built to simplify network and security operations. It delivers all the benefits of SD-WAN while reducing cyber risk, simplifying regulatory compliance, and eliminating the headaches associated with managing an “ecosystem”. This service prioritizes and accelerates business-critical apps, while optimally using and managing the available bandwidth. AI-assisted automation and highly trained engineers enable us to take care of your network and security operations, ensuring fast traffic and promptly addressing security issues.

A secure and reliable network is the basis for smooth operations of all business-relevant applications. A virtual private network (VPN) is required with secure site-to-site connections across public and private networks – internet or MPLS – regardless of provider. Our SD-WAN automatically encrypts and authenticates all traffic between sites, meaning business-critical data remains safe, and risk is reduced. In addition, reliable routing on VPN is enabled to ensure traffic can always take a direct path while guaranteeing connection availability, even when a path is temporarily unavailable due to connectivity incidents. To enable visibility of WAN activity for business unit managers, all VPN traffic is decrypted to be analyzed by a single-pass architecture: to ensure application visibility, this means identifying which application a network packet belongs to.

With everyone connecting on the move, as well as instant file sharing and the sheer number of applications, bandwidth can be a problem during peak hours at important locations. In addition, applications might be slow due to congested lines, packet loss or long latencies. High bandwidth usage and connectivity issues can lead to such poor application performance that end users are seriously impacted. SD-WAN Application Optimization by Open Systems helps to address both problems, reducing bandwidth usage by applying caching and compression algorithms and accelerating slow applications by protocol optimization.