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proprietary hardware, SD-WAN leverages software to control connectivity across a cohesive and agile infrastructure that easily maintains many hundreds of locations. This software- defined, and autonomous WAN infrastructure supports headquarters, branch offices, clouds, and corporate data centers.
SD-WAN adds an overlay with automated and centralized policy management; and enables a highly flexible environment. One that combines any type of transport, such as broadband Internet, LTE, and MPLS, from multiple carriers. Transports like cable Internet, become more reliable with SD-WAN automatically moving traffic across network paths based on business and application policies. Incorporating quality
of service (QoS) and network optimization, addresses issues associated with bandwidth availability, latency, packet loss, and jitter.
SD-WAN BENEFITS USERS AND IT
SD-WAN benefits users by providing a higher
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is accomplished by orchestration that resides on the centralized controller. This is where
IT can access and connect to enterprise and cloud applications, and automatically apply prioritization, service insertion and security policies. Any future policy changes are made
on the orchestrator, and edge devices are automatically updated, or reconfigured, without manually configuring them.
Some SD-WAN solutions provide direct and optimized branch-to-cloud application performance. This is accomplished through an SD-WAN overlay to the vendor’s distributed gateway services within the cloud.
Automation and orchestration alone can’t address all the real-time issues that WAN circuits face. This is where the aggregation of multiple transports, application-aware per-packet link steering, and on-demand remediation combine to achieve optimal performance for real-time applications, like voice and video. n
information is rapidly changing.”
In addition, Flowroute is adding support for
CNAM which enables communications service providers to programmatically create and assign CNAM records for all phone numbers with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency.
By automating the CNAM provisioning process, users receive the highest possible nationwide phone number support without sacrificing the level of accuracy.
“Companies like Avaya, GogoAir, and Mahindra rely on Flowroute because our unique combination of both telecom and software expertise provides added flexibility without requiring increased operational spend or development,” Castle added. “We continue to uncover new ways to help our customers automate and control their cloud-based telephony related business processes.”
Flowroute will be demonstrating the new API capabilities in booth #A3 at ClueCon, taking place July 23-26 in Chicago.
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quality experience. Applications no longer randomly contend with each other over limited bandwidth. SD-WAN makes all applications
run efficiently, based on their criticality and function. Network circuits are chosen to support the applications. For example, mission-critical applications, like email and VoIP, typically run over higher bandwidth circuits, while less critical applications, like social media and general browsing, typically run over lower bandwidth connections.
IT teams benefit from automation, and greater visibility, control, reliability and security. SD- WAN eases network management by simplifying policy and rule configurations, replacing
the archaic CLI with intuitive graphical and workflow-driven interfaces. SD-WAN replaces static path rules with real-time and dynamic path selections. It replaces device sprawl with seamless insertion and chaining of virtualized services, and SD-WAN replaces large upfront CapEx with a pay-as-you-go subscriptions.
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SD-WAN solutions are intelligent WAN managers that can economically increase bandwidth by aggregating any type of WAN circuits. This ability to have virtualized and automated configuration, enables bandwidth elasticity and service provider flexibility.
Rather than painstakingly configuring and troubleshooting legacy WANs, SD-WAN automation and centralized orchestration brings everything up a level. SD-WAN not only eliminates productivity wasting and mind- numbing tasks, but also reduces human error.
Almost all SD-WAN solutions offer edge devices for branch offices that are simple to provision, and don’t require an engineer or
a technician. These devices simply plug into power and authenticate, to get the branch
up and running. Automatic WAN transport discovery and monitoring eliminates link and branch configuration. Granular visibility with real-time network and application monitoring
Flowroute Launches Support for E911 and CNAM Through APIs
New features in Flowroute’s Numbers API further simplifies how communication service providers automate phone number configuration and management
SEATTLE, WA - Flowroute Inc., the first software-centric carrier, has announced support for E911 and CNAM (Caller ID Name) in its Numbers API. The new features enable communication service providers to streamline the configuration and management of telecom resources from within their platforms, while also reducing errors during provisioning of local and toll-free phone numbers.
Unlike landline phone numbers, which are
literally hard-wired to a specific address, VoIP phone numbers are more nomadic in nature. Since VoIP services can be used from virtually any Internet connection anywhere, they are not necessarily tied to a specific location or address. This has created a challenge for 911 operators when it comes to identifying the location from which a 911 call has originated.
Flowroute’s API-based E911 capability automatically identifies the location of the VoIP phone number by providing real-time address validation and provisioning. This ensures that the location data associated to a VoIP phone is correct and can be properly
interpreted by the local Public Safety Answering Point.
“One of our goals is to help our customers unlock the power of cloud-based communications infrastructure in a simple, reliable way,” said Al Castle, vice president of engineering and product at Flowroute. “Adding API support for E911 and CNAM is particularly important to our customers due to the critical and time-sensitive nature of the information being provisioned. These latest additions to Flowroute’s API help communications service providers deliver extremely accurate results even when caller
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