Cisco SD-Wan OnRamp for Microsoft 365: 2-Hour Briefing

Dimension Data (Pty) Ltd is an NTT DATA, Inc. Company

With the current trend to move workloads, applications, and data centers to the cloud, it is no longer a question of “why connect” but of “how to connect”.

Using best of breed Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Office 365 Teams, NTT DATA provides a holistic, secure and consistent connectivity experience for Office 365. Simplify and transform the user experience for Office 365 with increased visibility, security and dynamic performance management through Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Office 365 applications.

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Office 365 SaaS provides network administrators superior real-time and historical visibility into application performance through a quality-of-experience metric.

Audience: Executives and Senior Business Managers who have distributed workforces and who require an improved user experience from their networks when working on Microsoft 365 Collaboration SaaS.

Agenda:

• Introduction to NTT DATA's Networking for Collaboration services and solutions
• Identification of customer's high level business requirements
• Brief overview of NTT DATA's methodology for assessment and delivery of solution
• Identification of next steps

Outcomes:

• An understanding of the customer's business challenges in the space of networking for Microsoft Teams
• High level understanding of customer's distributed network
• Next steps

NTT DATA's Cisco SD Wan OnRamp for Office 365 solution provides the following benefits:

• Simplified Management - Increase productivity with centralized network management for performance intensive applications including Office 365.
• Better Application Experience - Increased user satisfaction by improving experience across the network
• Optimized Cloud Connectivity - Decrease costs by improving network efficiency across the WAN
• More Secure WAN - Reduce risks by identifying connected assets & applying consistent security policy.
• User experience – A consistent user experience across head office, branch and remote working locations quickly leads to a positive user experience.
• A scalable and carrier-neutral WAN infrastructure, allowing a reduction in WAN transport costs and network operational expenses

Solution Deliverables:

• SOFTWARE DEFINED WAN: SD-WAN networking helps clients evolve their Wide Area Networks (WAN) using the very latest software-defined technologies and platform delivered operational services providing automation and AIOps features for maximum efficiency.
• BRANCH NETWORKING: Branch networks are an extension of the WAN but organisations often struggle to manage these consistently and efficiently, to ensure an optimised used experience given the scale of branch networks.
• WORK FROM HOME: Clients have moved to remote working through the pandemic and need robust work-from-home networks for enterprise-grade performance and security.