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Tredent Data Systems, Inc. Achieves SonicWALL Silver Partner Status
Tredent Data Systems, Inc. announced today that it has achieved the Silver Partner designation from SonicWALL. Through the SonicWALL Medallion Partner Program, Tredent can use it’s many resources to build profitability into their client's business models and support growth with incentives that accentuate each client's unique business.
The Medallion Program tiers align to a variety of business models, because SonicWALL recognizes that one size does not fit all when it comes to channel programs. Tredent Data Systems has thus met the criteria that SonicWALL has set to ensure that certified personnel levels that are required of a Silver Partner to ensure that sales and support organizations are properly staffed and are capable of selling, designing, installing, and supporting products for the SMB marketplace. Through this program, SonicWALL will provide quarterly business reviews and business plans to drive and foster the relationship through partner ramping – as well as technical, product, and business training: which provides all employees access and benefits in extended learning.
SonicWALL’s Value Innovation strategy begins with identifying emerging technology trends, then bringing enterprise-class technology to the small and mid-tier business markets; making products more affordable and easier to install and maintain. Tredent Data Systems uses this common platform across product lines to increases productivity and reduce support costs for their clients.
Technology News You Can Use.......MPLS
Today’s ever changing network environment has dramatically increased the need for flexibility. This flexibility comes in the way IP networks are designed and deployed. The challenge that many organizations face with this continued change is the on going need to keep the dynamic enterprise secured, reliable and costs low while also creating more ease of connectivity for remote users, business partners, and customers.
Finally the promise of the MPLS networking has come to market. MPLS or Multi Protocol Label Switching is an IETF–defined protocol that is used in IP traffic management. Basically, it provides a means for one router to pass on its routing priorities to another router by means of a label and without having to examine the packet and its header, thus saving the time required for the latter device to look up the address for the next node. It can also facilitate Quality of Service (QoS). QoS provides some guarantee of performance such as traffic delivery priority, speed, latency, or latency variation. Delivery of good-quality audio or video streams typically requires QoS capabilities. Now that the MPLS technology and networks have matured from their initial release approximately 2 years ago, it has become a very cost effective solution to replace
existing frame relay and internet based VPN networks.
The costs of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and video conferencing continues to drop and is becoming more affordable for even small businesses. MPLS creates a perfect fit to enable mission critical applications such as VoIP to run across the enterprise with the reliability. QoS (Quality of Service) inherent with the MPLS Network ensures the delivery of latency sensitive protocols such as VoIP and Citrix etc.
Now enterprises can begin to take full advantage of these applications with piece of mind MPLS offers many advantages over existing WAN (Wide Area Network) technologies. Listed below are many of the key reasons why MPLS is fast becoming the WAN technology of choice.
- Cost – To the benefit of the customer it is far less expensive for the carrier to maintain the IP MPLS infrastructure than it is to maintain existing Frame Relay and ATM infrastructures. Most if not all of our customers are quickly moving to MPLS for this very reason.
- Any to Any Connectivity – The old hub and spoke network design is outdated in today’s world. More and more remote locations need to communicate via VoIP or Video Conferencing. With MPLS, the network is the hub and your corporate headquarters is just another remote location.
- Quality Of Service – MPLS allows the carrier to make packets and give them priority from one end of the network to the other. This is critical, in today’s network as more and more web based applications hog the bandwidth. Latency sensitive applications such as VoIP, Video Conferencing, Citrix, and the AS400 need prioritization in order to work most efficiently across the WAN.
- Simplicity & Scalability – Because the carriers MPLS network becomes the hub, you never have to worry about building any more PVCs (Frame Relay), SVCs (ATM) or VPN tunnels as the enterprise network expands. In many cases, all that is needed is a basic Cisco router with static routing to add a new location to the MPLS network.
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity – With the flexibility of IP networking and the any to any connectivity of MPLS, it is easier to create a cost effective disaster recovery solution using one of your existing remote locations; rather than using expensive hosting facilities and outsourced business continuity solutions such as Sunguard.
- Voice over IP (VoIP) – Having the capability of the carrier to provide the Quality of Service (QOS) CRITICAL for voice over IP to work properly, can give IT Departments a level of confidence that this will be a viable technology.
- Network Security – Because MPLS only runs across the carrier’s network and is limited by routes to each of the customers location, it is by default a very secure network without the need to purchase, enable, and maintain high end security protocols such as IPSEC on the customer premise equipment (CPE). This simplicity allows the customer to focus on securing web connectivity and the local area networks.
For these reasons, many businesses are quickly embracing MPLS as the wide area network of choice. The flexibility and simplicity of the MPLS network allows the IT staff to focus on projects that increase productivity and the bottom line.
MPLS Resource Center:
http://www.mplsrc.com/
International Engineering Consortium:
http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/mpls/
If you need assistance or information that will help you make decisions about the future of your business network infrastructure feel free to ask one of our courteous and knowledgeable AT&T / Network experts. Give us a call