zWAN vEC – SD-WAN for Remote & Work-From-Home Users
The SD-WAN Virtual Edge Controller (vEC) is software that is installed on a Windows based PC for use by remote, hybrid and Work-From-Home (WFH) users. The vEC is Software Defined and connects to the SD-WAN Director in the Cloud. zWAN vEC was designed from the ground up to provide secure and reliable access for work-from-anywhere users to access apps, systems and services. Since the zWAN vEC installs on a user’s PC this eliminates the need for a separate hardware device, which results in a significant cost savings for corporations.
The Work-From-Home shift due to COVID was assumed to be a temporary situation, as time has moved forward having a more mobile workforce has become the new norm. Today, organizations are adopting remote and hybrid work as a permanent model.
Remote Users Connectivity – Always Online & Secure
Setting up and creating a remote or Work-From-Anywhere model has been extremely challenging for enterprises, organizations and small-to-medium businesses. Many organizations have relied on their traditional VPN’s to deliver corporate resources and applications to user’s home networks posing hurdles to networking, security and visibility that these solutions are not designed to address. The zWAN vEC from AmZetta delivers secure access, provides network resiliency with multiple network links (WiFI and LTE), optimized performance for corporate data and applications, while providing analytics on user activities and application usage in a simple to deploy SD-WAN solution.
Top Benefits of an SD-WAN Solution
Dynamic Path Selection & Transport
SD-WANs use dynamic path selection to steer or route network traffic to one or multiple WAN links based on priority, network conditions or traffic patterns. Data packets are automatically steered to specific WAN links based on link availability, to balance network traffic…
Centralized Management
SD-WAN allows network administrators to centrally manage their entire network fabric by pushing out policies to all the branches with ease. This also allows for quicker integration of new branches. Administrators can also have a full view of the network, leading to the possibility of…
Network Security
SD-WAN, at its core, supplies an organization’s network with a secure fabric to trusted devices while leveraging insecure connectivity, such as the Internet. SD-WAN has in-built security features as well, such as stateful firewalls, IPS/IDS Intrusion Prevention System/Intrusion Detection…
Direct Connectivity
SD-WAN empowers organizations with the freedom to connect branches directly to a corporate data center and directly to cloud services such as SaaS applications. Connecting to cloud services has the added benefit of not requiring the traffic to route through the corporate data center…
Policy Based Management
The SD-WAN steers data based on policies (Quality of Service) configured specifically for your applications, devices, users, groups, locations and more. These polices are configured with a priority setting in which the SDWAN utilizes to prioritize the data packets and how they are dynamically…
Zero-Touch Provisioning
Enterprise SD-WANs supports a secure true zero-touch provisioning of edge controllers. In order to onboard a device in a remote location the only required steps are to unbox the edge controller, plug it in and connect it to the internet. The edge controllers are automatically provisioned…
Improved Network Performance
SD-WAN brings awareness of traffic types that traverse through your network. An IT manager can prioritize traffic from business-critical applications as well as other services such as VoIP and web-conferencing and help steer the traffic via the most efficient route…
Cost Reduction
SD-WAN reduces overall costs by allowing the use of low cost alternatives to expensive MPLS such as the public internet, broadband and LTE networks, allowing direct cloud access for the increasing use of SaaS applications, getting better results from available…
Cloud Adaptation
The use of SaaS applications and other cloud services are on the rise. SD-WAN facilitates cloud access throughout the network fabric, including branch offices and remote workers, which in turn removes the need to route cloud and remote traffic back through the corporate data center…
Introduction to SD-WAN
SD-WAN Director Deployment Options
Managed SD-WAN
AmZetta partners with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for Customers that prefer to hand off the implementation, configuration and management of the SD-WAN network. AmZetta Partners can quickly and securely implement the SD-WAN solution using a team of highly skilled engineers. Managed Services avoids upfront investments and allows the network to be fully managed by a team of experts.
On-Prem SD-WAN
Customers running applications and services on-premise or in local data centers prefer to host the SD-WAN solution within their infrastructure. AmZetta provides an On-Prem SD-WAN solution that allows 100% total control and management to be performed by the in-house IT staff. AmZetta Solutions Engineering will remotely assist Customers in setup, configuration and management of the On-Prem SD-WAN.
Co-Managed SD-WAN
Not everyone is comfortable managing their SD-WAN network. AmZetta offers a Co-Managed SD-WAN solution where you retain 100% control over the SD-WAN while it is hosted within the AmZetta Cloud. AmZetta will configure and train your IT team on the SD-WAN Director to handle the day-to-day network operations. AmZetta will provide backend support and maintenance of the SD-WAN network.
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Ready to try zWAN SD-WAN?
Just click this link and fill out the short form. An AmZetta Solutions Engineer will email you the credentials to log into a zWAN demo instance. The Solutions Engineer will also ship you a zWAN vEC (Virtual Edge Controller) that you can onboard to the zWAN Director. You will be able to check out the remote user endpoint perspective as well as the backend provider and management perspective.