VPLS WAN’s Learn the 10 Key Advantages| by Exponential-e

Here is a list of 10 things that can be done with a VPLS network which can’t be achieved without:

1. Wide Area virtualisation – Virtualisation projects can escape the building because different buildings in different locations think they are all on the same LAN. Virtualisation investment can be shared across all sites.

2. No stovepiping – As companies add services or move to SaaS each new service can be added to the existing platform as part of a unified solution – there is no need to stovepipe new services and support on separate circuits. Investment is future-proof and cost effective.

3. VPLS masks the fact that SaaS services are not being sourced locally increasing user acceptance and guaranteeing usability.

4. Solving Sarbanes Oxley requirements - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity can be supported further by moving servers to locations 10’s of Kilometres away with the addition of now only a few milliseconds making it imperceptible to end users.

5. The enterprise customer’s comm’s room can be split up and hosted from different sites to further extend DR practices.

6. Lets the customer take back control -  Easy and rapid in-house configuration increases agility, efficiencies and business responsiveness.

7. Services and/or hardware can be centralised removing unnecessary duplication and support costs previously thought necessary on performance grounds.

8. Services can be converged in the core leading to network efficiencies but offered as physically separate services on different cables at the customer premise – simple and easy.

9. Each service can be assigned its own service level and class of service backed up by SLAs.

10. VPLS can uniquely facilitate the centralisation and/or distribution of mission critical services and can help to achieve the seemingly impossible objectives of putting in place business continuity whilst at the same time making cost savings.

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