iTel Networks
A nationwide financial institution in Canada needed a cost-effective solution that increased connection resilience. The expert sales and support team at iTel designed a Peplink solution that enabled a fully integrated, secure VPN solution across thousands of branch offices nationwide. iTel’s solution significantly improved uptime and provided 360° visibility into their nationwide network.
Success Factors
Management and Security
Peplink’s zero-touch InControl 2 cloud-managed GUI provides a real-time view of WAN health and availability, with centralized WAN monitoring and notifications. Peplink’s SpeedFusion technology ensures uncompromised VPN security with packet-level encryption.
Flexibility and Reliability
1,068 Peplink MAX Transit Core routers fully integrated with the client’s existing VPN – a solution that protected the integrity of the existing network’s security requirements. The Transit Core’s dual-carrier SIM capability ensures zero disruption to connectivity in the event of a primary and secondary wireline service failure.
Technologies
A Need for Connection Resilience
A nationwide financial institution in Canada needed to fix network shortcomings they were experiencing with their existing TelCo MPLS infrastructure. At the time, connection resiliency was dependent on the TelCo’s footprint. That made the company vulnerable to unreliable wired-line connectivity in Canadian branch locations where MPLS infrastructure is poor. The client turned to iTel, a Canadian-based Managed Service Provider, to provide a viable, cost-effective solution. iTel network engineers understood that decentralizing their client’s dependence on the Telco network infrastructure was the key to reclaiming control over branch resiliency. They achieved this using a Peplink solution.
Power of Partnership: iTel Partners with FrontierUS for Peplink Solution
iTel collaborated with FrontierUS after learning that Peplink technology efficiently and affordably solved for the use case. The expert sales and support team at iTel vetted the Peplink deployment that would enable a fully integrated, secure VPN solution across thousands of branch offices nationwide.
Solution: Enhanced Reliability and Significantly Reduced Costs with Uncompromised Security
Peplink’s SD-WAN technology allows for complex VPN configurations that can connect thousands of branch offices together securely. Crucially, these can be created and deployed automatically with centralized WAN monitoring and notifications. Peplink’s zero-touch InControl 2 provides a real-time view of WAN health and availability. At the same time, Peplink’s SpeedFusion technology ensures uncompromised VPN security with packet-level encryption
In iTel’s case, they utilized 1,068 Peplink MAX Transit Core routers across the country to fully integrate with the client’s existing VPN – a solution that protected the integrity of the existing network’s security requirements – an absolute must for the strict security standards of the financial industry. Peplink provided a tertiary circuit into their managed SD-WAN solution. With dual-carrier SIM capability, this non-wireline hot failover solution meant zero disruption to connectivity in the event of a primary and secondary wireline service failure. In the event of failure, their SD-WAN routes traffic over the Peplink with dual-carrier, diverse SIMs.
The Peplink ecosystem allows branch locations of any size and scope to be remotely managed from a central location. SpeedFusion and InControl 2 technologies make visibility into the network possible from anywhere, and InTouch provides MSP network administrators control and insight over any Peplink device on the network remotely.
Result: Zero Downtime with Improved Network Visibility
iTel provided the financial institution with a Peplink MSP solution that significantly improved uptime and provided 360° visibility into their nationwide network. In addition, iTel’s client reports significant cost savings from reduced downtime and convenient data-pooling across two different cellular network carriers.
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