Fusion Broadband moves to the cloud and sees 400% growth in SD-WAN services
Announcement posted by WMC PR 15 Apr 2019
Fusion Broadband’s decision to migrate its software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) services to IBM Cloud has resulted in considerable business benefits including the ability to support a 400 per cent growth of its SD-WAN solutions.
As Australia’s first SD-WAN provider, Fusion has been providing total carrier and technology agnostic SD-WAN services for almost ten years, which has enabled private networks between multiple locations to deliver faster speeds, failover protection and redundancy.
SD-WAN is fast becoming the go-to solution for any sized businesses to move away from costly, inflexible, slow and constricting MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) networks and self-built IP Security VPNs. And currently, more managed service providers in Australia use Fusion Broadband’s SD-WAN platform than any other SD-WAN provider.
Jason Maude, Fusion Broadband’s managing director, said its former infrastructure was at the point where rapid growth had put pressure on capacity demands at several locations.
“We were receiving more support calls purely through load and growth constraints. Changes had to be made. Investigations led us to partner with IBM and with a rapid deployment of less than 24 hours, we migrated most of our load off our primary point of presence in Sydney into the IBM Cloud,” Maude said.
IBM Cloud is the gold standard in IaaS, with over 60 global locations, extremely high-performance server environments and supporting networks.
“Now 80 per cent of our SD-WAN network is spread across IBM sites in Sydney and Melbourne along with other IBM locations. We also allow our clients to build their own SD-WAN network in the IBM Cloud anywhere in the world.”
IBM Cloud completely compartmentalised
This strategy provides users with greater levels of control. “By letting direct customers or partners build and control their own networks they are not co-locating the SD-WAN resources with other customers. They can even integrate these networks into their own IBM Cloud infrastructure. It’s completely compartmentalised, which is important from a data sovereignty and data protection standpoint.”
Beyond providing the necessary architecture, Fusion Broadband also delivers customer-facing SD-WAN control portal solutions. “This gives users greater transparency,” adds Maude, “which is nice because they can be sure of how data is flowing and where it’s flowing to. They can also control the behaviour of the network, regardless if it’s 2 or 2,000 sites, with a single mouse click.”
By coordinating its services on IBM Cloud, Fusion Broadband has already realised a number of advantages including providing an almost limitless layer of CPU scalability.
“It has also given us a significant amount of headroom in network capacity. In fact, over a four-month period, the IBM architecture was able to support 400 per cent growth in Fusion’s SD-WAN services.
“Our own management requirements have reduced with support calls dropping significantly. Because we’re running the infrastructure at 20 per cent instead of 80 per cent, we’ve got a much more robust environment.”
Further, working with IBM has allowed Fusion Broadband to reach out to new markets and customers.
“With our SD-WAN platform being well-tested and proven in the IBM environment, we are now making it available to over 200 IBM Business Partners globally, which is increasing our international reach considerably.
“We can turn on a point-of-presence in an IBM Cloud data centre anywhere in the world in about half an hour. And outside of shipping out our end-point equipment, we can have a customer running on a global proprietary private network in less than 24 hours. We think that’s pretty impressive.”
Cost savings and network downtime averted for Australian Bank
That rapid deployment proved particularly beneficial for one Australian bank. “It was perfect timing,” recalls John Soden, an SD-WAN Specialist at Fusion Broadband. “We were in talks with a bank when they started having network issues and several of their sites were going to be down for weeks. We were able to have them back up and live in about 20 minutes.”
In addition, Fusion’s new network delivers a lower cost environment for the bank, leading to noticeable savings. “They told me that the cost savings from replacing their network in just one of their branches funded the replacement for seven other sites,” Soden said.
Of course, the bank isn’t the only organisation benefiting from Fusion Broadband’s partnership with IBM. “Without the IBM Cloud infrastructure, it would have been a lot more challenging,” said Maude. “The IBM architecture is flexible in its configuration. It’s scalable in its capacity. It’s reliable in its nature. It’s global in its presence.”
“And that fits in exactly with the services we provide.”
Ends
About Fusion Broadband
Fusion Broadband offers platform and carrier-agnostic SD-WAN services to provide partners and customers with reliable high-speed data connections. Headquartered in Australia, the business operates throughout Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and it also maintains a partner base that spans the globe. Tel: 1300 553 526. https://fusionbroadband.com.au/
About IBM Cloud
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/
Further enquiries:
Jason Maude, Managing Director, Fusion Broadband Pty Ltd. Level 1, 119-125 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento, Victoria, Australia 3943. M: 1300 553 526
E: jason@fusionbroadband.com.au
Issued on behalf of Fusion Broadband by WMC Public Relations Pty Ltd. Contact Wendy McWilliams on +613 9803 2588. E: wendy@wmcpr.com.au
As Australia’s first SD-WAN provider, Fusion has been providing total carrier and technology agnostic SD-WAN services for almost ten years, which has enabled private networks between multiple locations to deliver faster speeds, failover protection and redundancy.
SD-WAN is fast becoming the go-to solution for any sized businesses to move away from costly, inflexible, slow and constricting MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) networks and self-built IP Security VPNs. And currently, more managed service providers in Australia use Fusion Broadband’s SD-WAN platform than any other SD-WAN provider.
Jason Maude, Fusion Broadband’s managing director, said its former infrastructure was at the point where rapid growth had put pressure on capacity demands at several locations.
“We were receiving more support calls purely through load and growth constraints. Changes had to be made. Investigations led us to partner with IBM and with a rapid deployment of less than 24 hours, we migrated most of our load off our primary point of presence in Sydney into the IBM Cloud,” Maude said.
IBM Cloud is the gold standard in IaaS, with over 60 global locations, extremely high-performance server environments and supporting networks.
“Now 80 per cent of our SD-WAN network is spread across IBM sites in Sydney and Melbourne along with other IBM locations. We also allow our clients to build their own SD-WAN network in the IBM Cloud anywhere in the world.”
IBM Cloud completely compartmentalised
This strategy provides users with greater levels of control. “By letting direct customers or partners build and control their own networks they are not co-locating the SD-WAN resources with other customers. They can even integrate these networks into their own IBM Cloud infrastructure. It’s completely compartmentalised, which is important from a data sovereignty and data protection standpoint.”
Beyond providing the necessary architecture, Fusion Broadband also delivers customer-facing SD-WAN control portal solutions. “This gives users greater transparency,” adds Maude, “which is nice because they can be sure of how data is flowing and where it’s flowing to. They can also control the behaviour of the network, regardless if it’s 2 or 2,000 sites, with a single mouse click.”
By coordinating its services on IBM Cloud, Fusion Broadband has already realised a number of advantages including providing an almost limitless layer of CPU scalability.
“It has also given us a significant amount of headroom in network capacity. In fact, over a four-month period, the IBM architecture was able to support 400 per cent growth in Fusion’s SD-WAN services.
“Our own management requirements have reduced with support calls dropping significantly. Because we’re running the infrastructure at 20 per cent instead of 80 per cent, we’ve got a much more robust environment.”
Further, working with IBM has allowed Fusion Broadband to reach out to new markets and customers.
“With our SD-WAN platform being well-tested and proven in the IBM environment, we are now making it available to over 200 IBM Business Partners globally, which is increasing our international reach considerably.
“We can turn on a point-of-presence in an IBM Cloud data centre anywhere in the world in about half an hour. And outside of shipping out our end-point equipment, we can have a customer running on a global proprietary private network in less than 24 hours. We think that’s pretty impressive.”
Cost savings and network downtime averted for Australian Bank
That rapid deployment proved particularly beneficial for one Australian bank. “It was perfect timing,” recalls John Soden, an SD-WAN Specialist at Fusion Broadband. “We were in talks with a bank when they started having network issues and several of their sites were going to be down for weeks. We were able to have them back up and live in about 20 minutes.”
In addition, Fusion’s new network delivers a lower cost environment for the bank, leading to noticeable savings. “They told me that the cost savings from replacing their network in just one of their branches funded the replacement for seven other sites,” Soden said.
Of course, the bank isn’t the only organisation benefiting from Fusion Broadband’s partnership with IBM. “Without the IBM Cloud infrastructure, it would have been a lot more challenging,” said Maude. “The IBM architecture is flexible in its configuration. It’s scalable in its capacity. It’s reliable in its nature. It’s global in its presence.”
“And that fits in exactly with the services we provide.”
Ends
About Fusion Broadband
Fusion Broadband offers platform and carrier-agnostic SD-WAN services to provide partners and customers with reliable high-speed data connections. Headquartered in Australia, the business operates throughout Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and it also maintains a partner base that spans the globe. Tel: 1300 553 526. https://fusionbroadband.com.au/
About IBM Cloud
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/
Further enquiries:
Jason Maude, Managing Director, Fusion Broadband Pty Ltd. Level 1, 119-125 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento, Victoria, Australia 3943. M: 1300 553 526
E: jason@fusionbroadband.com.au
Issued on behalf of Fusion Broadband by WMC Public Relations Pty Ltd. Contact Wendy McWilliams on +613 9803 2588. E: wendy@wmcpr.com.au