Enterprise network integration

The challenge of enterprise network integration

As organizations grow and IT environments evolve, IT teams are charged with integrating enterprise networks to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, reduce costs and accelerate business growth.

Enterprise network integration may involve integrating different networks acquired through mergers and consolidation, or it may require IT teams to combine different types of networks – cloud, wireless and virtual – to foster better performance, scalability and security.

Spectrum Enterprise Managed Network Edge with SD-WAN is a modular, all-in-one solution that simplifies enterprise network integration. With this Spectrum Enterprise solution, IT teams can quickly provision new locations, deliver consistent capabilities across the entire network and select the right connectivity options for each location to ensure high-performance connectivity.
 

The challenges of enterprise network integration

The vast scope and complexity of enterprise networks pose significant challenges for IT teams seeking to ensure fast connectivity, strong security and remote access. Several factors make managing enterprise networks incredibly challenging.

• Enterprise networks may encompass hundreds of locations and thousands of remote or work-from-home employees, making it difficult to consistently enforce security policy.
• Networks may also include tens of thousands of network endpoints – everything from workstations, laptops and printers to tablets, IoT systems, IP phones and other devices.
• Various departments may insist on managing their own networks and deploying a variety of mismatched point solutions and individual security policies.
• Networks of subsidiaries and supply chain partners often introduce fragmented data and business processes that must be resolved to enable productive communication and collaboration.
• With the fragmentation and complexity of networks, IT teams often have limited visibility into network performance and threats.

Within the massive scale and deep fragmentation of enterprise networks, integration becomes mission-critical. Superior enterprise network integration enables organizations to identify and remediate the security gaps, blind spots and access control issues that leave the network open to security incidents. Integration can also foster the productivity, efficiency and collaboration that is essential to competitiveness.
 

Managed Network Edge with SD-WAN

Spectrum Enterprise Managed Network Edge with SD-WAN simplifies the expansion, management and security of networks. Delivered over the Cisco Meraki platform, this modular, all-in-one solution simplifies enterprise network integration and creates a complete network for all locations. As your organization’s footprint and network expands, Managed Network Edge can help implement SD-WAN to provide efficient management of wide-area networks.

When managing enterprise network integration with this Spectrum Enterprise solution, organizations can:

• Simplify integration. Managed Network Edge enables complete network integration, quickly provisioning new locations to give IT teams consistent capabilities across the entire footprint. When integration includes expanding internet connections across multiple locations, Spectrum Enterprise experts can help determine the right connectivity for each location, choosing from options such as fiber internet, broadband and wireless.
• Enhance performance. SD-WAN capabilities and intelligent routing help prioritize the most critical applications, ensuring higher, more consistent performance. Site-to-site VPN automatically establishes secure tunnels for traffic between various locations and the cloud.
• Secure the network. Managed Network Edge delivers deep visibility into the network and insights into usage and performance across all locations. From a cloud-based portal, administrators can see network activity from the WAN to each individual switch port for faster, better decision-making. Automated updates enable IT teams to keep pace with changing network requirements and emerging security risks.
   

Features of Managed Network Edge

When relying on Managed Network Edge for enterprise network integration, IT teams can:

• Quickly deploy and integrate a wide area network. SD-WAN and site-to-site VPN enable teams to quickly and securely create a WAN and expand locations.
• Simplify network management. Teams can manage and access the entire network from a central, intuitive and easy-to-use portal.
• Resolve issues quickly. With an application-aware network, IT teams can quickly pinpoint web application issues and route traffic around network issues.
• Choose the right connectivity for each location. With a nationwide fiber network, Spectrum Enterprise offers multiple connectivity options and service level agreements to meet the needs of every aspect of the network.
• Add layers of security. Firewalls and unified threat management (UTM) deliver provider-managed, integrated security from the edge to the cloud.
• Offload traffic locally. Networks can be configured to direct traffic to offload locally without needing to backhaul traffic to a central internet port.
• Operate anywhere. Enterprise network integration makes it easy to extend office networks and provide employees with secure, remote access to the network, enterprise hybrid cloud environments and enterprise cloud storage.
• Benefit from a trusted partner. Spectrum Enterprise experts employ a consultative approach to design and implementation, with U.S.-based experts offering 24/7/365 support.
   

Why customers choose Spectrum Enterprise

Spectrum Enterprise helps organizations realize their boldest ambitions. The nation’s largest businesses and communication service providers count on us to deliver exceptional technology and to serve as a great partner, as well. After understanding the unique technology requirements of each customer, we design plans to meet objectives by offering reliable and scalable solutions that promote growth.

Our wholly owned fiber network is engineered for growth and is the foundation of all our offerings. With a broad portfolio of solutions for networking, TV, voice and smart spaces technology, our offerings can easily evolve and scale to help our customers maintain competitiveness.

With Spectrum Enterprise, customers can always count on deep expertise and dedicated team members who offer a tireless work ethic, unmatched commitment and hands-on local support.
 

FAQs

What is enterprise network integration?

Enterprise network integration is the process of combining multiple networks or different types of networks such as cloud, wireless and virtual networks.
 

What are the benefits of enterprise network integration?

Effective enterprise network integration can improve network performance, simplify network management, increase network security, and enhance productivity and collaboration.
 

What are SD-WAN benefits?

SD-WAN allows organizations to improve the performance of their networks while reducing expense and increasing reliability. SD-WAN benefits include greater agility, simpler management, and the ability to ensure each application has the bandwidth it needs. SD-WAN also supports a SASE framework for managing networking and security.
 

What’s SASE?

Secure access service edge (SASE) is an IT framework that combines a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) with cloud-native technologies to improve cybersecurity. SASE makes it easier to manage networking requirements and moves security functions closer to users and devices to minimize latency.