{"id":32264,"date":"2018-06-22T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=32264"},"modified":"2018-06-22T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:51:03","slug":"pldt-launches-sd-wan-service-for-enterprise-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/06\/22\/pldt-launches-sd-wan-service-for-enterprise-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT launches SD-WAN service at digital convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At the 2018 Philippine Digital Convention, PLDT Enterprise, the B2B arm of one of the country\u2019s ICT and digital services provider, officially rolled out software-defined wide-area network technology (SD-WAN), the next generation of managed data services that promise to give customers more control over their business.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SD-WAN interconnects enterprise networks, data centers, and the cloud with each other\u2014enabling customers to be agile despite geographical distances via a powerful and secure platform.<\/p>\n

PLDT VP and Head of Enterprise Core Business Solutions Jojo Gendrano says this brave new technology is a step forward towards providing enterprise customers the ability to better fit their data, application needs, and their budget to the underlying network service supporting those applications. Additionally, SD-WAN allows customers to be more agile by enhancing business productivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cBranch heavy industries like banking and finance, as well as the retail industry, can further improve data uptime especially as their applications become data dependent, centralized, or more focused to the cloud. Similarly, BPOs can better address seasonality requirements of their clientele,\u201d Gendrano says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Early this year, PLDT Enterprise officially partnered with global software-defined network and services provider Zenlayer, adding to the group\u2019s already robust international offerings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited to introduce SD-WAN technology to the Philippine market. Local enterprises are always looking for ways to easily scale their business requirements up or down, and this will allow them to do so in real-time making for simpler, more efficient management of resources,\u201d says SVP and Head of PLDT and Smart Enterprise Business Groups Jovy Hernandez.<\/p>\n

PLDT\u2019s extensive SD-WAN portfolio and slew of partners cover international network requirements. The leading telecommunications provider also owns the largest software-defined, network-connected data centers in the country, as well as a top-notch security operations center.<\/p>\n

2018 Digicon<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the largest and most recognizable digital conventions in the Philippines, the two-day convention\u2014in partnership with premier global market intelligence provider International Data Corporation (IDC)\u2014brought together over 1,000 C-level executives, business owners, and key decision makers, designed to connect them with both local and international thought leaders and pioneers in technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cDigital innovation is at the core of our business transformation at the PLDT Group, given the constantly evolving technology landscape of today. The future of societies and enterprises is anchored on its ability to evolve\u2014and to deal with ever present disruption is to adapt to what\u2019s here, what\u2019s now, and what\u2019s about to come,\u201d said PLDT and Smart EVP and Chief Revenue Officer and ePLDT President and CEO Eric R. Alberto.<\/p>\n

Carrying the theme, \u201cBe Fearless,\u201d the 2018 Digicon was an avenue to introduce the PLDT group\u2019s bold new products and innovations at the Digital Expo, headlined by its Cloud Line, SD-WAN, and ePLDT Cyber Security services. Attendees were also given exclusive access to an array of other groundbreaking technology through the Expo, via experiential exhibitions and live demonstrations, such as virtual reality content holograms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the 2018 Philippine Digital Convention, PLDT Enterprise, the B2B arm of one of the country\u2019s ICT and digital services provider, officially rolled out software-defined wide-area network technology (SD-WAN), the next generation of managed data services that promise to give customers more control over their business. SD-WAN interconnects enterprise networks, data centers, and the cloud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6121,5096,6122],"class_list":["post-32264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-philippine-digital-convention","tag-pldt-enterprise","tag-sd-wan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}