Edge Computing in Retail Industry
Company A is a world-renowned sports brand with extremely popular products. Headquartered in Europe, it has thousands of stores in the Greater China region, the only region that has maintained high business growth in recent years.
With the rapid growth of online e-commerce business models in the Greater China region, and the effect of COVID-19 and rental on physical stores, the customer drove the digital transformation of its internal IT architecture, increased access to its online platforms, enhanced the accuracy of advertising through data marketing, and streamlined the costs of physical stores in a timely manner.
At the network level, the customer’s demand was to maintain the traditional MPLS VPN network deployment but with a steady decrease in investment, and to deploy SD-WAN in all new branches and subsidiaries.
Recommended Smart Cloud Connect Solutions & Services
Hybrid WAN Adoption
Solve the key challenges of hybrid networking between the traditional MPLS VPN structure and SD-WAN network multiplanes.
uCPE Rental
Helps obtain unified uCPE management service to support SDN/SD-WAN/SASE
for each branch office with the global reach.
SD-WAN PoC-as-a-Service
Assist customers to quickly implement SD-WAN POC, isolate from the production environment, and obtain the actual evaluation results of the solution.
GOSDWAN’s Innovation in Edge Computing for Retail
Cost-effective networking and flexible leasing
SD-WAN solution is based on the light load deployment of the customer’s dia dedicated internet access lines, which can be rented and billed flexibly, and the bandwidth is not limited by the capacity of traditional dedicated lines, and multiple labels can be applied and integrated for cost-effective Internet egress.
Network redundancy and multiplexing backups
SD-WAN uCPE devices support 3G/4G/5G uplink channel synchronization, which greatly reduces the customer’s cost in link backup.
Global layout and cloud acceleration
The customer’s data flow interoperates with a large number of mainstream SaaS applications through the SD-WAN network, gaining the support of applications such as Salesforce, Shopify, etc., and also the support of processing functions such as machine learning and big data analysis on Microsoft Azure, which can speed up decision analysis.
Software-defined security and agile network
The network design integrates internal network traffic and external Internet applications, where SD-WAN solution’s definable labels lead potentially risky traffic to critical nodes for processing, while the egress of each branch and subsidiary directly applies software firewall to enhance security definition and control at the edge.
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