Globe launches first fully integrated, cloud-based WAN for business

Globe Telecom has launched a cloud-based Wide Area Network allowing businesses to move better and expand faster.

The new technology called Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is being pioneered in the Philippines by Globe Business, the information and communications technology arm of Globe, the telco said in an emailed statement Wednesday.

“It is designed to allow local enterprises drive rapid growth and achieve international competitiveness as well as bring Globe closer to realizing first world connectivity in the country,” the company said.

Using a corporate data network, the technology is supposedly affordable and easy to deploy yet remains secure, reliable, and efficient, according to Globe.

“We continue to modernize and expand our corporate data network, ensuring that it is future-ready to offer businesses the services and solutions they need even in remote areas in the country,” said Gil Genio, chief technology and information officer.

Genio said that SD-WAN is primarily created for businesses as it ensures faster deployment, business agility, and enhanced visibility to empower enterprises to  manage their network operations.

“Businesses which choose to use this service will enjoy a better understanding of infrastructure and IT traffic flows; a faster, simpler, and more secure way of setting up new branches; and greater control over network and business requirements,” he said.

Banks with multiple branches and automated teller machines (ATMs) nationwide can build secure, reliable, and efficient network connections, as well as run real-time applications and transactions on multiple connections to their branches and ATMs that leverage on an intelligent system, Globe said.

“Should a link fail, applications on bank transactions and operations will continue to run using all available bandwidth in the other connections to ensure business continuity,” it said.

“We provide businesses with the right technologies, build better infrastructure, and share best business practices and know-how,” said Peter Maquera, SVP for Enterprise Group.

The company is growing wireline internet adoption and has rolled out more than one million broadband lines ahead of schedule, placing it at half point of its goal of rolling out two million new broadband lines by 2020. —VDS, GMA News