WAN Solutions
Secure and fast transfer of information between all of your clients’ Australian and New Zealand offices with MPLS WAN & SD-WAN offerings
WAN (Wide Area Network)
We provide access to more circuit types in more places, provide unparalleled service insights and alerting as standard, along with 24/7 support. Our wholesale customers come in many shapes and sizes, so our WAN solutions are designed to be super flexible.
We can supply individual components (primary or secondary services, hardware for specific sites) or we can provide a white labelled out of the box solution. Whether you are looking at fully managed WAN solutions, tailored for your clients that are operating multiple offices across New Zealand and/or Australia, or you need a few WAN components to complete your own solution, we’ve got you covered.
Our solutions can include components such as multiple internet gateways, BGP/VRRP fail-over, managed routers/firewalls and/or protected layer 2 trans-Tasman bandwidth. AWS Direct Connect and/or Azure Express Routes can also be included as part of our WAN solutions via our Australian network nodes or Megaport.
dashboard view & real time alerts
Regardless of the WAN design selected, Illume provides granular real time and historical insights into service performance and utilisation to allow for easy capacity management and forecasting.
All Lightwire internet and WAN services are provided with 24/7 automatic outage alerts and ticket creation, helping you create the best possible experience for your clients.
We can also provide customised integration between illume and your own business platforms to drive end to end insights and alerting.
Managed SD-WAN
Many of our larger wholesale partners look to us to provide the connectivity elements of their own SD-WAN solution, and this is a part we are happy to play.
Alternatively, Lightwire’s can provide an out of the box solution for re-sale. Our software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture, powered by FortiGate, that allows businesses to leverage any combination of circuit types, make local internet breakouts easier to provision, failover happen faster, simplify provisioning, and securely connect users to applications.
Lightwire utilises FortiAnalyzer to provide security fabric analytics and automation to provide detection and response against cyber risks. Reporting can be configured and set to a recurring cycle that meets your customers’ needs.
Experience seamless real-time failover to a secondary connection without the need for complex BGP configs and/or additional subnets.
SD-WAN allows for vendor-agnostic deployment, so you can have Lightwire provide primary and secondary services at all locations, or just the primary service, and go with a 3rd party 4G service (or another access option) for failover. SD-WAN gives you the design flexibility that is missing from MPLS WANs.
SD-WAN allows for local internet breakout at each site, or you can route traffic in a bespoke way that better suits your needs – you choose. We are here to talk through your objectives and talk in real terms about the best way to ensure low latency routing is in place and security is robust.
Managed MPLS WAN
An MPLS WAN connects offices and endpoints across a single ISPs network (preferably Lightwire’s), creating a secure path between each location. Typically, this design will see firewalls deployed in a high availability design in data centres and/or multiple key offices.
If you have a customer with a specific need for an MPLS design, we have the experience and network to deliver.
MPLS is a single ISP product. We can provide multiple services (fibre, ethernet, 4G, and/or fixed wireless) to a location via diverse wholesale carriers, but ultimately they will all connect back to Lightwire’s network in some form.
If you have your heart set on a solution where each service coming into an address is provided by separate ISPs, then you should consider SD-WAN.
MPLS WAN will ideally have multiple geographically diverse transit gateways, located within data centres or very well connected and powered offices.
Depending on the locations involved and how close they are to transit gateways, internet exchanges and CDNs, this design may result in higher or lower latency than an SD-WAN alternative offering local internet breakout at each site.
Complementary pre-sales design by our network architects can work through your clients’ business case and create a design to suit.
We can incorporate virtually any firewall design you require. Host your own in your DC, get us to connect to your existing multi-tenant platform, have us deploy a managed firewalls at geographically diverse locations or leverage one of our virtualised firewalls – there are plenty of ways to get the desired result for your client and we are here to help plan and implement your solution.
When Lightwire provides the firewall functionality for your customer’s MPLS WAN, we leverage FortiAnalyzer to provide security fabric analytics and to automate detection of and response to against cyber risks. Reporting can be customised and tailored set to a recurring cycle to meets your clients’ needs.
Helping you to build your WAN offering
Are you configuring and deploying your own hardware solution? Do you just need help with individual components of your design? Let’s talk about access and backup.
