FatPipe's SD-WAN gels wells with Microsoft Office 365 when your enterprise's end objective is to enhance personnel efficiency by improving both application rendering as well as the connectivity's trustworthiness.

Overview

Contemporary Commercial Connectivity

Heavy dependence on the cloud has increased network load, making complicated WAN infrastructures obsolete. The burning need to efficiently improve system performance without exceeding capital expenditure has set the stage for SD-WAN technologies to be adopted as a viable option.

Business and end user connectivity have undergone a tremendous transformation thanks to the inclusion of IaaS, SaaS and other cloud enabled support features. But the growing prevalence of this trend is cumbered by conventional data protection techniques that compulsorily route traffic through the HQ's data center for inspection, leading to network delays and bottlenecks. User productivity suffers. Further, conventional router and MPLS based approaches are inherently incompatible with cloud based technologies. Conventional networking infrastructures aren't robust enough to handle heavy cloud based workloads and they become an expensive and tedious undertaking.

FaPipe's SD-WAN can:

  • Amplify Microsoft Office 365 delivery through a combination of centrally deployed automation capabilities along with highly protected and easy end user access to access points in their vicinity
  • Simplify monitoring and optimize production with greater network insights through application delivery prioritization and seamless Office 365 API integration
  • Cut through operational clutter, eliminate network delays and improve protection through dynamic traffic routing mechanisms within the Office 365 environment

How SD-WAN can Improve Employee Engagement with Microsoft Office 365 at Branch Offices

Microsoft Office 365 showcases an extensive portfolio of SaaS applications aimed at enhancing user output and tasks that require joint efforts. The universal acceptance of Office 365 across businesses means that IT teams can dig into the nitty gritties of user journeys that have different roles and responsibilities.

 

Office 365 is most responsive when branch office users can easily connect to access points in their vicinity. This reduces network delays caused by routing Office 365 network traffic through the headquarters for inspection and consequently improves application delivery.

Users access Office 365 through a globally dispersed network backbone with numerous points of presence (PoPs) worldwide. This network backbone has built upon a grid of data centers that houses and handles Microsoft Office 365 data of different enterprises. Users within each enterprise send their requests to these data centers from where they are relayed to the PoPs and then on to the Office 365 applications and databases.

Businesses that adhere to Microsoft Office 365 best practices engineer their WANs in such a way that branch office traffic is relayed straight to the most easily accessible PoP in order to enhance connectivity and performance by decreasing round-trip times (RTT) and, as a consequence, network delays.

FatPipe's SD-WAN is Built for Office 365

FatPipe's SD-WAN has undergone a process of rigorous testing to validate its compatibility with Microsoft Office 365 prescribed best practices and ensure the availability of trustworthy network lines that allow branch office users to work in Microsoft Office 365 through the nearest and most suitable access point. FatPipe's SD-WAN platform meets all the parameters of Microsoft Office 365 Networking Partners with "Works with Office 365" labels. FatPipe's SD-WAN's edge device's API support allows it to leverage Office 365's endpoint data - a worldwide collection of IP addresses and domain names regularly updated on the Office 365 REST API - to facilitate highly protected transmissions.

Machine Learning

FatPipe SD-WAN's machine learning mechanisms allow you to sort application traffic in real time based on priority before relaying it to the nearest Office 365 access point. Application and security specific policies can be pushed into local environments from a central dashboard so that Office 365 transmissions can be made more efficient through a combination of better bandwidth utilization

 

and intelligent traffic routing. FatPipe's superior traffic routing and control make policy management easy. High end packet identification enhances local data transmissions and traffic visibility.

Office 365 best practices further prescribe a locally available access point for all services for the DNS request resolution to bring down latency. FatPipe's SD-WAN edge device resolves Office 365 DNS requests locally and utilizes the local DNS cache registry to eliminate the need to connect to external and distant DNS servers. This local DNS request resolution could even be done in a cloud proxy. Since DNS resolution and outgoing traffic are both handled from the branch office, Office 365 requests can now be sent directly to the front end servers nearest to the user.

Simplifying Installation

FatPipe's SD-WAN comes with Office 365 REST API integration and state of the art automation that allows for easy installation and seamless configuration of all essential policies and rules with the end objective of optimizing connectivity with nearby Office 365 access points. Newly installed Office 365 access points in the environment are immediately detected and communication established through automation.

FatPipe has a longstanding track record of working with businesses that rely heavily upon Microsoft Office 365, with extensive and indepth expertise across a range of operational scenarios that makes us ideally suited to service your Microsoft Office 365 requirements. Network delays are negligible with our SD-WAN solutions as branch office requests are resolved locally, thereby enabling the best possible Office 365 end-user experience.

Our SD-WAN solutions are up to date with the latest industry trends and can easily adapt to even the most challenging business requirements to enable a seamless and pristine Office 365 experience.

 
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How FatPipe Prevents Network Downtime

  • Redundant connections mitigate last-mile vulnerabilities
  • Diverse access hardware prevents hardware-related outages
  • Multiple paths keep applications up during network maintenance
  • Freedom to choose routing architecture that work for your business
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FatPipe SD-WAN can solve unplanned network downtime.

The growth of network complexity has produced many more potential points of degradation and failure.

Source - Infonetics Research, The Cost of Downtime