Windstream on Tuesday unveiled an enhanced SD-WAN offering it says includes the best of its technology and that of EarthLink, which it acquired earlier this year.
The new offering includes additional broadband flexibility, improved self-service monitoring and control options, and a new SD-WAN Concierge managed service that automatically optimizes application performance, lowers costs and simplifies network management, according to the company. Customers also can combine SD-WAN with the company’s Diverse Connect for a 100 percent availability service level agreement (SLA).
Windstream launched its SD-WAN offering in January, while EarthLink launched its offering last year.
Mike Frane, Windstream’s vice president of product management, previously was EarthLink’s vice president of product and launched its SD-WAN service. He tells Channel Partners that both companies’ SD-WAN offerings were “based on the same technology platform and both leveraging the VeloCloud solution … and we’re really taking the best of both worlds and adding up to more than two.”
“The capabilities that we’re able to build on to what Windstream had and our ability to bring some of the solution over from EarthLink as well … it’s a lot more than the EarthLink solution on the Windstream platform,” he said. “We’re really excited about what we’ve been able to accomplish in the last three to four months as the companies came together.”
Windstream’s SD-WAN offering now offers customers:
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