Unify Hybrid Networks

Maximize performance, continuity and IT savings.

Enterprises need uninterrupted business continuity for critical applications delivered over their global networks, but face an explosion of bandwidth requirements for less critical applications. Pressures on IT departments to reduce expenses are stronger than ever, making purchases of additional bandwidth difficult and often unaffordable. A solution gaining momentum in large enterprises is combining the carrier-class quality and availability of MPLS networks with the high-bandwidth capacity of a low-cost Internet VPN - a hybrid networking strategy - but there are trade-offs. Empowered by dynamic WAN selection, Ipanema’s Hybrid Network Unification enables enterprises to get the best of both worlds.

Ipanema empowers enterprises with capabilities to:

• Guarantee unified application performance across [MPLS + Internet] networks
• Improve business communication continuity
• Exploit large network capacity at low cost
• Benefit from Internet immediacy and ubiquity
• Turn back-up lines into business lines

Ipanema’s Hybrid Network Unification mitigates the cost/performance trade-offs

Application performance is affected by lack bandwidth and distance.  With MPLS-based VPNs, performance is high and guaranteed by providers’ service level agreements (SLAs).   On the other hand, the Internet is deployed everywhere and provides large bandwidth more affordably, but without guaranteed performance or availability.  Must there be trade-offs between the higher performance and quality of business grade MPLS networks for lower cost and sometimes unreliable Internet bandwidth?

Until now, enterprises were forced to make painful choices: fast or large networks? Business-grade or standard-grade performance? Value-priced or less-reliable, inexpensive bandwidth? With  Ipanema’s Hybrid Network Unification, it is now possible for enterprises to get the best of both worlds: fast and large networks with 99.99% reliability, cost effectively.

The issue is not only how to create a hybrid network with MPLS and Internet VPNs to better serve business needs, but also the ability to control, optimize and accelerate applications combining the mutual benefits of each network with unified management.  Hybrid Network Unification extends the concepts of Ipanema’s WAN Governance  and Autonomic Networking  for enterprises to automatically monitor, control, optimize and accelerate business applications across two or more networks in a unified controlled environment.