Hughes Announces Managed SD-WAN Solution for the Public Sector

May 22, 2017

Hughes Network Systems, LLC  introduced the Hughes Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solution for the public sector, joining its comprehensive suite of HughesON™ managed services for multi-site organizations.

"As government agencies pursue strategic modernization of their IT, they face several challenges, such as efficient cloud access, high application performance and availability, and increased number of devices being added," notes Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst with ZK Research. "SD-WAN is an excellent networking solution to meeting these challenges, and is already being successfully deployed by commercial enterprises delivering greater agility, lower costs and improved operational efficiencies. However, organizations with widely distributed branch sites will face unique deployment challenges rolling out an SD-WAN that a managed service provider can help overcome."

The Hughes Managed SD-WAN helps to overcome many current network challenges with significant benefits compared to legacy dedicated networks, including cloud readiness, high performance, higher network and application availability, increased network flexibility and cost savings. It leverages innovative Hughes ActiveTechnologies™ to transform ordinary broadband connections into enterprise-grade high performance WANs, including support for demanding applications such as VoIP and video.

"With organizations continuing to adopt new cloud-based and rich media applications, networks are facing more traffic and stress than ever before," said Mike Cook, executive vice president at Hughes. "The SD-WAN solution further expands our proven portfolio of HughesON managed services, delivering multi-site organizations optimized network performance by resolving bandwidth, availability and cloud access challenges— keeping applications up even if the primary network path fails."