Managed

WAN

Keep your WAN running smoothly
while keeping the pressure
off IT staff. 

 

Demand more from your WAN.

Big Data. Cloud computing. Mobility. Collaboration. Security. To make the most of all your IT investments, you need them to work faster, smarter and more efficiently. It all falls on your wide area network (WAN), which in turn falls on your IT staff to manage. If your team doesn’t have the time and resources—let alone the expertise—consider our Managed WAN service.

Our experts have more than two decades of experience managing customer networks. When you partner with us, you’ll give your IT staff some much-needed relief—and the freedom they need to focus on your big-picture technology roadmap. It’s how we’re helping major enterprises like Target keep employees connected to critical apps throughout its 2,000 stores, while adapting quickly to the latest technologies. All without adding to its IT team’s to-do list.

We can help you find the right wide area network solution that meets your needs.

What is Managed WAN?

Your WAN connects every part of your organization. When it doesn’t perform well, neither does your business. Managed WAN lets you outsource the management to us, so you can be sure you’re delivering the reliable performance and private connectivity you need to keep all your sites up and running.

What is Managed WAN
How does Managed WAN work

How does Managed WAN work?

With Managed WAN, you choose the exact level of service your organization needs at every step—from pre-implementation engineering services to management services to reporting. You get a single portal for monitoring your WAN’s performance, including critical metrics like latency, volume, congestion and discarded frames. Plus, you can track elements like project status, inventory tracking and change management requests.

Features & benefits

Better WAN services help you easily collaborate with partners and suppliers, speed delivery of high-demand products and create better experiences for customers by seamlessly connecting them with employees and self-service systems.

  • Performance. Keep your WAN—and your business—running at high performance levels, 24x7, virtually anywhere
  • Customization. Offload only what you need to, from monitoring to complete outsourcing with our managed edge-router service
  • Adaptability. Get the latest technologies fast—we’re one of the first providers to fully integrate Cisco Meraki hardware
  • Reliability. Keep your WAN up and running with reliable connectivity backed by strong SLAs

500K+

network, hosting and security devices managed worldwide

4K

managed networks in 150+ countries

300

experts to support your needs

30+

years managing customer networks

Our value proposition.

By partnering with our WAN services experts, it’s not just your IT team that benefits. It’s your entire business.

Improved response time

Our automated network monitoring system can improve initial response time to network outages compared to a typical DIY customer.

Global providers

eBonding with global service providers helps you coordinate trouble ticketing across multiple carrier networks around the world.

Multi-layered reporting

When combined with Managed WAN, our network engineering, network analysis, and other WAN analysis reporting levels add an additional level of support.

Service levels

Monitor and notify

  • Network monitoring and issue notification
  • Isolate and remedy access and network faults for Verizon provided transport
  • Network performance reporting

Physical management

Everything included in Monitor and notify, plus: 

  • CPE physical repair
  • Backup configuration services

Full management

Everything included in Physical management, plus:

  • Logical configuration repair
  • As-needed changes to end-to-end Managed WAN
  • Added security features, including emergency patching and read access to all managed devices
  • *2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global. Published: 22 February 2023. Analyst(s) Danellie Young, Karen Brown, Gaspar Valdivia. As a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global, 2015–2023; as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers in 2011–2014; as Verizon Business in Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers 2005, 2007, 2009–2010; as Verizon Business in Magic Quadrant for Managed and Professional Network Service Providers, North America in 2008.

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