SD-WAN from Virtual1 gives you unprecedented visibility and control of network traffic, representing a significant growth opportunity for your business.

We’re ready when you are.

Start your SD-WAN journey with us

We are Virtual1We operate the UK’s most advanced wholesale-only network, delivering high capacity, low latency connectivity and cloud services across the UK.

Empowering businesses with a network built for the future.

Our Software Defined Network solutions

With us you get the best of both worlds when it comes to our network.

Our Software Defined Network (SDN) prioritises automation, enabling faster service delivery and improved in-life management.

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions from Virtual1 build upon these foundations, providing even greater visibility and control - all the way to

individual users and applications.SD-WAN can help you to make the most of the network you have. But it can’t create more bandwidth.

That’s where Virtual1’s SDN comes in and completes the picture.

Gain the quality, visibility and performance of SD-WAN and retain the bandwidth flexibility of our network.

We're ready when you are

Virtual1 has developed our SD-WAN proposition with key partner, Juniper Networks. Juniper technology is the foundation of our network which means that most of our existing services can be upgraded to deliver SD-WAN whenever your business is ready to take the step.

This means you can have early SD-WAN migration discussions with your customers, secure in the knowledge there is a Virtual1 solution waiting for them when they are ready to migrate

Straightforward migration through a simple commercial and technical process

No additional equipment purchases necessary

Project managed deployment using flexible templated structures

Deploy in stages for minimal disruption, cost distribution and reduced risk

Transparent costings, and no contract extensions required

Roadmap of product developments for forward planning

Visibility and control of your network in real-time

Flexibility to add / change bandwidth in near real-time

Drive productivity by controlling different types of traffic

Manage estate sizes based on real usage data

Real-time visibility of network traffic down to the application level

Control traffic routing, application performance and security via an easy to use interface

A network should be able to outperform the business it underpins, not hold it back by being slow, inflexible and unintelligent. Infrastructure that can react and adapt gives businesses the flexibility to respond to changing markets and opportunities.

SD-WAN delivers complete visibility and control of network traffic, so you can ensure that business critical data is prioritised for top performance.

Top 3 networkconsiderations: security, reliability & capacity

Taken from the IDC SD-WAN survey

IDC 2017 U.S. SD-WAN Enterprise Survey: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US42580817

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Don't let network security keep you awake at night

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) as standard with all deployments

Unify disparate underlay network vendors into one seamless solution

Move traffic seamlessly and deliver real, automatic business continuity

Unified Threat Management available as an additional feature

Network performance is fundamental to the operation of most organisations. Today, most Boards have either a CIO or CTO representative - with security, network reliability and flexible capacity commonly amongst the top 3 agenda items.*

Security is inherent to the SD-WAN solution, delivering all of the benefits of a secure MPLS deployment with the visibility of traffic flows and an integrated security suite.

SD-WAN solutions can offer impressive business advantages, but they can also be demanding and complex solutions to design, execute and support. Upskilling to support these opportunities can be complex and expensive - we want to make it

as easy as possible for you and your customers. Our Partner onboarding offers full pre-sales consultancy to help you choose the right option for your business, before taking the first steps into SD-WAN.

Managed or co-managed choose the solution that's right for you

Build in your own consultancy and managed services to enhance your offering

Create value added services through product tools, such as bespoke SLAs

Fully managed: Co-managed:

Support every step of the way - from prospecting to design, build and in-life support

Automatic access to upgrades and product improvements as they are delivered

All moves and changes executed by Virtual1

Show me the money

SD-WAN is a significant market opportunity – it has the potential to vastly increase revenues whilst adding significant value for your customers. If you are not talking to your customers about SD-WAN someone else will be. With the options available from Virtual1, we’ve got you covered.

A recent white paper published by IDC* indicates just how much of an opportunity managed SD-WAN represents for the channel, especially as most customers would rather buy SD-WAN from a traditional provider.

of enterprises will be using SD-WAN in the next 3 years83%of that SD-WAN market will consume a managed service

SD-WAN market opportunity forecast for 2020

65%

$7.3bn*Stats published in recent IDC white paper

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Contact your Account Manager today for further product and technical information.

Start your SD-WAN journey with us - we're ready when you are.

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