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Hughes Announces Managed SD-WAN Solution for the Public SectorGERMANTOWN, Md., May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), a leading global provider of managed network services, today introduced the Hughes Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solution for the public sector, joining its comprehensive suite of HughesON™ managed services for multi-site organizations. "As government agencies pursue strategic modernization of their IT, they face several challenges, such as efficient cloud access, high application performance and availability, and increased number of devices being added," notes Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst with ZK Research. "SD-WAN is an excellent networking solution to meeting these challenges, and is already being successfully deployed by commercial enterprises delivering greater agility, lower costs and improved operational efficiencies. However, organizations with widely distributed branch sites will face unique deployment challenges rolling out an SD-WAN that a managed service provider can help overcome." The Hughes Managed SD-WAN helps to overcome many current network challenges with significant benefits compared to legacy dedicated networks, including cloud readiness, high performance, higher network and application availability, increased network flexibility and cost savings. It leverages innovative Hughes ActiveTechnologies™ to transform ordinary broadband connections into enterprise-grade high performance WANs, including support for demanding applications such as VoIP and video. These include:
"With organizations continuing to adopt new cloud-based and rich media applications, networks are facing more traffic and stress than ever before," said Mike Cook, executive vice president at Hughes. "The SD-WAN solution further expands our proven portfolio of HughesON managed services, delivering multi-site organizations optimized network performance by resolving bandwidth, availability and cloud access challenges— keeping applications up even if the primary network path fails." The Hughes Managed SD-WAN incorporates best-in-class on premise and network based security capabilities. Security services are managed through Hughes Security Operations Center (SOC), staffed by experienced security professionals armed with state-of-the-art security tools. The Hughes Managed SD-WAN solution is available now on the Networx Enterprise Contract. Hughes is a teaming partner of Level 3 Communications, a Networx prime contractor. For more information, visit: http://government.hughes.com/sdwan About Hughes Network Systems Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes operates sales and support offices worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite operations. For additional information about Hughes, please visit www.hughes.com and follow @Hughes_Corp on Twitter. About EchoStar ©2017 Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. Hughes and HughesNet are registered trademarks and JUPITER is a trademark of Hughes Network Systems, LLC.
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