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    Home»Promoted Content»SD-WAN proves its mettle in pilot project

    SD-WAN proves its mettle in pilot project

    Promoted Content By LanDynamix23 August 2021
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    LanDynamix MD Peter Clarke

    LanDynamix, a leading provider of IT specialist solutions in managed services and cybersecurity, has successfully utilised SD-WAN technology to connect pilot pharmacies located in supermarkets to the network of its client, First Care Solutions.

    Peter Clarke, MD of LanDynamix, says software-defined wide-area networking technology’s inherent flexibility, cost-effectiveness and relatively easy deployment played a big role in the pilot project’s success.

    First Care Solutions provides outsourced administrative services for 26 emergency practices and other platforms in the telehealth, aviation health and primary health care arena across South Africa. It is a medical administration and services company that enables health-care professionals to focus on what they do best. First Care manages administration services for its partners operating in the emergency medicine industry and provides practice digitisation with patient applications, electronic medical records, dashboards and data-sharing repositories.

    First Care and the prominent supermarket group wanted to test the concept of providing a range of in-person and virtual consulting services

    LanDynamix has an established relationship with First Care whereby it handles all its IT services requirements. Clarke says recent projects have involved connectivity and backup. “First Care has recently deployed an EMR system (electronic medical records) to move away from paper-based notes and records. As part of this deployment of EMR to all the emergency rooms that they administer, First Care needed to have reliable and redundant connectivity to each of these sites. Each site had its own unique connectivity options and LanDynamix deployed hybrid solutions. Some locations have dedicated fibre, some have microwave, and some make use of SD-WAN. Most sites have some sort of redundancy — this could be failover using ADSL or 3G, to outline just some of our services to First Care,” says Clarke.

    Connected rapidly

    LanDynamix also recently completed First Care’s backup solution, complementing its own backup servers by replicating the data to LanDynamix offsite servers.

    In the case of the SD-WAN deployment, First Care and the prominent supermarket group wanted to test the concept of providing a range of in-person and virtual consulting services in two stores, for possible roll-out more widely across the chain.

    Clarke says that the pilot pharmacies needed to be connected rapidly and relatively inexpensively to the First Care network. It was also important to provide a high-quality and stable link that could cope with voice, video and various applications — all necessary to provide the right experience for clients and staff.

    SD-WAN’s inherent flexibility enabled us to deploy the new network very rapidly, using LTE links from two leading mobile networks

    “SD-WAN’s inherent flexibility enabled us to deploy the new network very rapidly, using LTE links from two leading mobile networks, to connect back into the First Care network. The SD-WAN device’s built-in intelligence meant we could prioritise the traffic according to business rules to ensure network performance was appropriate,” he says.

    Because the SD-WAN makes use of broadband to link into the First Care network, long-term and expensive contracts were avoided — when the pilot is completed, the contract can simply be terminated. This flexibility will also prove useful should the concept be approved for wider rollout — if certain stores moved or the pharmacy was found not to be profitable, the partners would not be tied into long-term contracts. By the same token, if more bandwidth is needed to maintain the necessary performance levels, more broadband links can be easily purchased.

    Flexibility and scalability

    “Because it is software defined, SD-WAN offers a great deal of flexibility and scalability coupled with rapid deployment — ideal for a business environment in which the ability to roll out new service offerings is crucial,” he says. “Equally important, companies need the ability to quickly pull back if a concept is not working in a particular location. While the choice of network technology is always a function of what the business wants to achieve, the use case for SD-WAN is well demonstrated in this project.”

    About LanDynamix
    LanDynamix provides cybersecurity solutions and managed services in the South African ICT arena. Our areas of specialisation include remote support and monitoring, as well as management. Our Security Operations Centre delivers globally competitive levels of protection to our customers’ businesses. We use these services and solutions to operate our clients’ technologies for them; protect them from security breaches, and consequently free them to focus on core business and growth. LanDynamix can maximise clients’ competitive advantage, while minimising downtime, risk and costs. For further information, please visit www.landynamix.co.za.

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