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THE ADTRAN ADVANTAGE
THE ADTRANADVANTAGE
Cloud Connectivity
ADTRAN understands the changes in the market. As a result, our solutions are well positioned to help businesses confidently shift to cloud-based resources. ADTRAN solutions are:
• High Performance: Independent testing shows ADTRAN NetVanta® routers featuring RapidRoute technology deliver throughput gains of 285 percent over leading competitors.
• Reliable: ADTRAN offers an industry-leading warranty and world-class support, yet our product return rate is well below the industry average.
• Secure: Built-in features provide encryption for secure transmission of sensitive data across the public internet.
• Flexibility: A broad portfolio enables ADTRAN to offer enterprise-wide connectivity solutions—primary, branch and home office—leading to simplified deployment and support.
• Disaster Recovery: ADTRAN solutions provide confidence with multiple back-up options designed to maximize business connectivity uptime.
Look to ADTRAN for All Your Cloud Connectivity Needs
Enterprises are transforming the way they look at IT and resources, moving more business-critical applications and computing platforms to the cloud. As this shift occurs, connectivity to these cloud-based resources is growing in importance as that link to the outside world can determine the effectiveness of cloud access. ADTRAN® delivers cloud connectivity via high-performance, secure and reliable solutions to public or private clouds.
Many hear about being connected to the “cloud”, and picture a new world in terms of what that means to a business as it relates to connectivity. Connectivity to the cloud begin when businesses used CSUs/DSUs to gain Internet access or connectivity to branch offices. Over the years, business access has migrated to IP-centric connectivity. ADTRAN is the global leader in public and private con-nectivity with a 20-year history of connecting businesses to cloud-based applications and services. ADTRAN has continually designed and provided innovative solutions to deliver maximum bandwidth and availability through this time of service migration. As a result, ADTRAN is the most deployed vendor by carriers for bundled busi-ness services.
The Shift to Cloud ServicesA long history of providing business connectivity solutions allows ADTRAN to understand the dynamic shift in the marketplace related to cloud connectivity. This shift in the IT model is revealing some key components that businesses value when making the move to cloud-based applications and services, including:
• Software as a Service (SaaS): Target business users of services like email, CRM, blogs, and virtual desktops to complete business task.
• Platform as a Service (PaaS): Is directed at developers and deployers performing service and application test, development, integration and deployment of applications or services for end users..
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Targets system managers in need of virtual machines, operating systems, storage, CPU, memory and backup services.
ADTRAN has a long history of providing enterprise communication solutions and continues to invest in innovations to transform your business network into a competitive differentiator—both now and in the future. ADTRAN solutions:
• Create Business Efficiency and Capability: ADTRAN’s NetVanta Unified Communications products provide communication-enabled business processes— freeing up valuable resources from tasks that can be automated.
• Drive Employee Productivity: Empower employees with unified messaging, presence, and an easy- to-use service creation tool for call handling.
• Complete: ADTRAN provides a single-vendor solution from the network edge to the desktop, delivering the entire enterprise network for both wired and wireless users.
• Confidence: An extensive product offering combined with world-class support and industry-leading warranty builds confidence within your organization that the network is an integral part of your businesses success.
Look to ADTRAN for All Your Enterprise Communications Needs
Enterprise Communications
An organization’s communication network serves many needs in today’s fast-paced business world. It is a collaboration tool with a supplier, it is a source for fast and reliable access to employees traveling or working remotely, and the link between you and your customers. As these points illustrate, enterprise communication is quickly becoming the unknown lifeline for today’s successful business.
ADTRAN knows a true enterprise-communications solution is not just a resource to the organization, but a competitive advantage that enables businesses to become more efficient and capable. To this end, we provide a comprehensive portfolio of software-based Unified Communications solutions combined with hardware-based technologies supporting both wired and wireless users.
Empowering Businesses CommunicationsUltimately communication solutions such as Unified Communications, Ethernet switches, and wireless LAN’s should empower your employees to become more efficient and capable. Businesses have three factors they value most when considering enhancements to their enterprise communication infrastructure. These include:
• Enhancing Employee Productivity: Organizations around the globe continually look for ways to empower their staff with tools for maximum effectiveness.
• Mobile Device Support: The average employee utilizes up to three different Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Enterprises need a plan to support these without overburdening their network.
• Simplification: With many vendors offering only niche technologies, enterprises should look to complete solution providers to simplifying growth and support.
Virtual Mobility
ADTRAN Virtual Mobility solutions deliver ultimate endpoint freedom utilizing virtualized cloud-based solutions for connectivity, communications and collaboration. As the market leader in virtual mobility, ADTRAN solutions offer:
• Seamless Wireless-wired LAN Access: Deliver seamless wireless-wired network access at any location, local or global, with Bluesocket® Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN).
• Cloud Virtualized Control: Virtualized management and control within the datacenter offers greater network control.
• Unified Communications: Empower employees with unified messaging, presence, and an easy- to-use service creation tool for call handling with NetVanta Unified Communications solutions.
• Lower Costs: Virtualized network solutions eliminate expensive hardware costs, cut energy costs by 80 percent and increase system reliability.
• Cloud-ready Products: Are available for private or public cloud deployments, and are available for both hosted and cloud-managed applications.
Look to ADTRAN for All Your Virtual Mobility Needs
Mobility is transforming the enterprise. There continues to be a huge influx of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. This is driving the trend towards a growing mobile workforce who are productive both in the office and on the go. As this trend continues to grow, IT investment too are shifting to maximize access to enterprise resources via the cloud.
ADTRAN recognizes this growing trend, and foresees a future when a user can access their enterprise infrastructure, applications and data from any mobile device from virtually anywhere. This is virtual mobility.
The key to virtual mobility is having a virtualized environment with virtual control. A virtualized environment enables scalable, cloud-based delivery of wireless-wired networking and unified communications. With virtual control, you have a global view of the network and its users, providing unprecedented control, reliability and security.
ADTRAN virtual mobility solutions deliver complete endpoint freedom throughout the enterprise utilizing virtualized cloud-based wireless-wired networking and unified communications. ADTRAN solutions empower users to access enterprise resources anytime, anywhere, on any device, and deliver a unified service experience. ADTRAN’s solutions leverage the scalability, reliability, and cost benefits of virtualization, and are cloud-ready for easy deployment and management.
Delivering Endpoint Freedom Virtual mobility allows enterprises to deliver true endpoint freedom. This means the ability to:
• Provide anytime, anywhere access to enterprise resources from any mobile device: Enterprises need to quickly, easily and securely scale the wireless network to support multiple devices per user. In addition, users need to be empowered to manage how they receive calls, voicemails or alerts on the device of their choice.
• Unify service experience across networks: Centralized policy management and enforcement allows users to sign-in gaining access to enterprise resources anywhere in the world.
• Leverage the power of virtualization: Virtualization maximizes mobility. Eliminating physical hardware allows you to rapidly scale your network, offering uninterrupted service with increased reliability.
• Move your business to the cloud: Cloud-ready solutions allow for simplified deployment and provide enterprises with flexibility to choose deployment options that meet specific business needs.
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