WANs and business options

[KaleemRorke]

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Hi all, I have a WAN that is sickly and in need of some replacing. I am not up to date with new wan tech, so wanted to find out from those that know what alternatives there are.

We're 13 offices, a head office in centurion, all others in major metropols. Presently running an mpls over diginet, which is slow, expensive and really not suited to the job, in my opinion. We're trying to move our staff to office 365, but the speed of everything is a wonderfully effective preventative to adoption.

We're also running a 60 channel sip trunk at our head office with voip phones in the regions, though there's regular delays and interruption on the voice calls, I'm assuming through high traffic contention at each office.

I want to redesign the whole thing to be more efficient, cheaper and faster. Anyone have an idea of how I should approach this?

 

[Level7]

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Hi all, I have a WAN that is sickly and in need of some replacing. I am not up to date with new wan tech, so wanted to find out from those that know what alternatives there are.

We're 13 offices, a head office in centurion, all others in major metropols. Presently running an mpls over diginet, which is slow, expensive and really not suited to the job, in my opinion. We're trying to move our staff to office 365, but the speed of everything is a wonderfully effective preventative to adoption.

We're also running a 60 channel sip trunk at our head office with voip phones in the regions, though there's regular delays and interruption on the voice calls, I'm assuming through high traffic contention at each office.

I want to redesign the whole thing to be more efficient, cheaper and faster. Anyone have an idea of how I should approach this?

Hello have you come right with a solution? If not PM would like to assist.

 

[Trokmeteenwiel]

Mods please move this if it's in the wrong place, I couldn't see anywhere else to pose the question.

Hi all, I have a WAN that is sickly and in need of some replacing. I am not up to date with new wan tech, so wanted to find out from those that know what alternatives there are.

We're 13 offices, a head office in centurion, all others in major metropols. Presently running an mpls over diginet, which is slow, expensive and really not suited to the job, in my opinion. We're trying to move our staff to office 365, but the speed of everything is a wonderfully effective preventative to adoption.

We're also running a 60 channel sip trunk at our head office with voip phones in the regions, though there's regular delays and interruption on the voice calls, I'm assuming through high traffic contention at each office.

I want to redesign the whole thing to be more efficient, cheaper and faster. Anyone have an idea of how I should approach this?

ADSL or Fibre with VPN appliance would be suitable.

 

[Grasmuis]

ADSL or Fibre with VPN appliance would be suitable.

I would not recommend using ADSL connectivity for business. ADSL is more a home product and best effort service, you have no SLA and with slow upload speed + congestion you will have more problems with performance. You can check with Telkom if they can move you to the metro fibre network. We get about 4ms pings between our head office in Roodepoort and sites at Delmas and Witbank on the metro fibre network.

 

[Trokmeteenwiel]

I would not recommend using ADSL connectivity for business. ADSL is more a home product and best effort service, you have no SLA and with slow upload speed + congestion you will have more problems with performance. You can check with Telkom if they can move you to the metro fibre network. We get about 4ms pings between our head office in Roodepoort and sites at Delmas and Witbank on the metro fibre network.

It absolutely depends on the WAN purpose. WAN is a very general term. ADSL is not suitable for more than 1Mbps office to office. If it's for RDP support, or one way access (with ADSL on the initiating side and another product on the other side) then I say why not.

 

[ambo]

You probably want to move all your branches onto business fibre connections.

This will give you symmetric bandwidth which is important for uploading between branches. This will also support QoS to ensure good voice quality. Fibre is also much more scalable - up to 500 times the speed of diginet on the current technology.

I've deployed a bunch of these with up to 30 branches and users really notice the benefits.

 

[Trokmeteenwiel]

You probably want to move all your branches onto business fibre connections.

This will give you symmetric bandwidth which is important for uploading between branches. This will also support QoS to ensure good voice quality. Fibre is also much more scalable - up to 500 times the speed of diginet on the current technology.

I've deployed a bunch of these with up to 30 branches and users really notice the benefits.

Agree