Interactive migrates UCC Coffee to managed SD-WAN
Summary
Australian IT service provider Interactive has completed the migration of UCC Coffee’s network to a managed SD-WAN solution. The deployment under the Business NBN fibre initiative involved transforming UCC Coffee’s network from MPLS to a fully managed SD-WAN solution which is providing speeds of up to 500 Mbps at various sites. It’s no longer a race to the bottom of carriage pricing, it’s now a focus on the value managed services bring when wrapped across the entire technology stack,” he said. Robson said UCC Coffee’s selection of Interactive as its technology solutions provider for the deployment aligns with the trend identified in Gartner’s latest SASE report, which predicts that by 2025, 50% of new software-defined WAN purchases will be part of a single-vendor secure access service edge (SASE) offering. “This is a logical lateral expansion into software defined networks — rationalised, application-aware bandwidth, native cloud integration and SASE.
