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Securing the future of wireless connectivity
Evolving Wireless Standards
In recent years, the shift towards home working has surged, demanding robust wireless infrastructure and seamless connectivity to support the multitude of devices people now use.
In addition, businesses are now able to leverage AI in numerous innovative way; to deploy adaptive wireless solutions that anticipate and resolve issues before they impact users or event enhancing service delivery through location services.
Why Choose Kerv Connect?
Kerv Connect is dedicated to providing cutting-edge connectivity solutions tailored to the evolving technological requirements.
Watch this short video to understand how our expertise ensures your business stays ahead with secure, efficient, and adaptive networking capabilities, supporting your journey towards a more connected and productive future.
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Securing the future of wireless connectivity
Secure and Tailored Connectivity Solutions
In this short video, Kerv Connect’s CTO, Richard Norman, delves into our commitment to customer success. We aim to provide exceptional experiences with Cloud, SaaS, and long-term protection from data loss and reputational damage.
At Kerv, we prioritise securely connecting users to their applications, ensuring seamless and efficient operations for businesses. Our approach begins with a deep understanding of our customers’ needs, identifying what’s important to them, the challenges they face, and the technologies they currently use. This thorough assessment allows us to tailor solutions that enhance success and often save money.
Why Choose Kerv?
Kerv’s expertise in adopting new technologies and helping businesses adapt ensures you make the most of your connectivity solutions.
Join us on a journey to seamless and secure connectivity tailored to your unique needs.
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Securing the future of wireless connectivity
Optimising Software-Defined Networking for a seamless user experience
The focus of software-defined networking (SDN) has traditionally centred around the WAN, addressing challenges posed by legacy protocols and poor connectivity to enhance user experience.
However, with remote workers now requiring access to cloud-based SaaS applications, this shift has increased the strain on wireless services, especially with the widespread use of collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams.
Enhancing Connectivity with Unified Solutions
To meet these evolving needs, it is crucial to implement software-defined approaches that improve user experiences and incorporate robust security for remote access.
Why Kerv?
Kerv Connect excels in helping businesses adopt these technologies, unifying WAN, LAN, and Secure Service Edge to provide proactive insights, ensuring seamless service and support for users whilst driving business growth.
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Consistent Security and Optimal User Experience
Kerv Connect excels in implementing the Secure Service Edge (SSE) with a focus on Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) for remote workers.
Kerv’s innovative use of Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) and Software-Defined LAN (SD-Branch) extends Zero Trust access principles across entire networks, providing uniform security and access control regardless of user location.
In this short video Richard Norman, Kerv Connect’s CTO explains how this ensures consistent protection and user experience whilst eliminating unnecessary latency, enabling global businesses to offer seamless and secure access to SaaS applications.
Case Study
Leading European Food Group: Coherence, clarity, cost rationalisation and an always on network
Overview
One of Europe’s leading food processors consolidates contracts and recoups savings on a single standardised solution.
This privately owned Agribusiness provides quality beef to thousands of retailers, wholesalers, and food service providers across the world from locations in nine countries across the UK and Europe. Four business divisions work with a network of over 45,000 farmers, employ 13,300 people and turn over €5B. When management of multiple service providers began to aect business performance, Kerv supplied a single, standardised network solution group-wide, and delivered significant cost savings
Challenge
Following a period of growth through acquisition, this organisation operated four divisions across approximately 60 sites.
Each division had their own WAN MPLS contracts and a separate security/remote access solution from a variety of service providers. The multiple service provider engagement had caused varied service levels across the group with some poorly performing sites. Management and monitoring across this diverse group of contracts was complex and convoluted.
Uncovering the root cause of faults and implementing fixes was time-consuming, and increasing capacity or making changes to the WAN was challenging. Even simple requests such as a change on a managed firewall could take weeks. The internal IT team was regularly managing issues, rather than working to support revenue-generating endeavours.
The business also operated in accordance with stringent regulations and directives. Any network outage threatened significant disruption to the processing line, causing unnecessary food wastage and incurring commercial penalties. The business recognised the need for additional bandwidth and resilience to prevent costly production suspensions, and the need to consolidate the twelve group-wide incumbent providers into a single, trustworthy network and security solution provider.
This would standardise their WAN making it easier to manage, simplify the associated WAN contracts and deliver cost savings to the business. An upcoming WAN renewal negotiation was the perfect opportunity to embark on a WAN transformation project. SD-WAN offered the efficiencies of a single, ubiquitous, and always-on WAN which would better suit the always-on nature of the business.
Solution
Kerv highlighted the benefits of a next-gen SD-WAN to consolidate, simplify, and standardise the network. Rationalising and optimising the existing connections and applying an intelligent overlay could serve the group objectives of all four divisions, with the flexibility to provide custom treatments to service the particular requirements of each.
This always-on network was performance-assured with a reliable and predictable SLA framework and proactive monitoring. Kerv ousted 12 bidders to win the contract. Kerv’s strategic partnerships with both Dell and VMware won the customer’s confidence with a consolidated solution that was based on the market-leading VeloCloud SD-WAN solution ably supported by Fortinet for Security and Remote Access. Additionally, Kerv’s solution included design, installation, and a fully managed service to ensure that new technology did not place added operational pressures on an already busy IT team.
Kerv began by conducting a network exercise providing the transparency this Agribusiness needed to identify critical bandwidth requirements group-wide. The resulting report identified the level, amount and capacity of bandwidth utilised at each site, and recommended service downgrades and renegotiations in certain areas. Controlled and efficient treatment of traffic over existing links drove a commercial benefit, and hard-to-reach and remote sites benefitted from multiple connections, where a single service provider had previously represented a single point of failure.
During a POC for problematic production sites, the power of SD-WAN was able to provide tangible value, preventing a potential 4 hour outage which would have had serious financial implications. Kerv’s SD-WAN solution removed the requirement for further investment in WAN capacity and resilience saving the Group approximately £750k over 3 years.
“Kerv Connect has proven to be the trusted advisor who helped us make sense of SD-WAN and how it supports our ambitious ‘one network’ strategy. Of the various responses received on our WAN tender, Kerv Connect stood out with their approach to solution design and their strong team. The proof-of-concept installation has already delivered tangible benefit to our organisation and we are excited to get started on the full SD-WAN rollout with them.”
The outcome
- Simplification: The network is standardised group-wide in a single contractual framework. It benefits from predictable SLAs and proactive monitoring and management without additional operational burden for the IT team.
- Visibility: All divisions have read-only access to the SD-WAN management platform which provides granular visibility of all traffic across the WAN. This has provided actionable insight that is already returning benefits within the broader IT teams.
- Resilience and Performance: Using multiple connections in active-active format ensures heightened uptime and availability. Real-time adjustments in application traffic flows and prioritisation also guarantee critical application performance.
- Security and Segmentation: Within a single SD-WAN platform, the divisions are virtually segmented from each other, enabling the Group to have ‘one network’ and benefiting from tightly controlled inter-divisional interactions.
- Flexibility: Adding capacity is now as simple as adding it to the ‘connectivity pool’ at any one site. Deploying new sites is quick and easy.
- Cost Savings: Kerv’s SD-WAN solution was designed and deployed at a significantly lower price than the suggested MPLS equivalent.
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Case Study
Global Retailer: Transforms Network and Boosts Customer Experience
Client
Highstreet Shoe Retailer
Retail
Retail
Overview
One of Europe’s leading food processors consolidates contracts and recoups savings on a single standardised solution.
This privately owned Agribusiness provides quality beef to thousands of retailers, wholesalers, and food service providers across the world from locations in nine countries across the UK and Europe. Four business divisions work with a network of over 45,000 farmers, employ 13,300 people and turn over €5B. When management of multiple service providers began to aect business performance, Kerv supplied a single, standardised network solution group-wide, and delivered significant cost savings
Challenge
Following a period of growth through acquisition, this organisation operated four divisions across approximately 60 sites.
Each division had their own WAN MPLS contracts and a separate security/remote access solution from a variety of service providers. The multiple service provider engagement had caused varied service levels across the group with some poorly performing sites. Management and monitoring across this diverse group of contracts was complex and convoluted.
Uncovering the root cause of faults and implementing fixes was time-consuming, and increasing capacity or making changes to the WAN was challenging. Even simple requests such as a change on a managed firewall could take weeks. The internal IT team was regularly managing issues, rather than working to support revenue-generating endeavours.
The business also operated in accordance with stringent regulations and directives. Any network outage threatened significant disruption to the processing line, causing unnecessary food wastage and incurring commercial penalties. The business recognised the need for additional bandwidth and resilience to prevent costly production suspensions, and the need to consolidate the twelve group-wide incumbent providers into a single, trustworthy network and security solution provider.
This would standardise their WAN making it easier to manage, simplify the associated WAN contracts and deliver cost savings to the business. An upcoming WAN renewal negotiation was the perfect opportunity to embark on a WAN transformation project. SD-WAN offered the efficiencies of a single, ubiquitous, and always-on WAN which would better suit the always-on nature of the business.
Solution
Kerv highlighted the benefits of a next-gen SD-WAN to consolidate, simplify, and standardise the network. Rationalising and optimising the existing connections and applying an intelligent overlay could serve the group objectives of all four divisions, with the flexibility to provide custom treatments to service the particular requirements of each.
This always-on network was performance-assured with a reliable and predictable SLA framework and proactive monitoring. Kerv ousted 12 bidders to win the contract. Kerv’s strategic partnerships with both Dell and VMware won the customer’s confidence with a consolidated solution that was based on the market-leading VeloCloud SD-WAN solution ably supported by Fortinet for Security and Remote Access. Additionally, Kerv’s solution included design, installation, and a fully managed service to ensure that new technology did not place added operational pressures on an already busy IT team.
Kerv began by conducting a network exercise providing the transparency this Agribusiness needed to identify critical bandwidth requirements group-wide. The resulting report identified the level, amount and capacity of bandwidth utilised at each site, and recommended service downgrades and renegotiations in certain areas. Controlled and efficient treatment of traffic over existing links drove a commercial benefit, and hard-to-reach and remote sites benefitted from multiple connections, where a single service provider had previously represented a single point of failure.
During a POC for problematic production sites, the power of SD-WAN was able to provide tangible value, preventing a potential 4 hour outage which would have had serious financial implications. Kerv’s SD-WAN solution removed the requirement for further investment in WAN capacity and resilience saving the Group approximately £750k over 3 years.
The Outcome
Increased resilience and availability, improved customer engagement and outstanding price-performance efficiency.
- Cloud Confidence
The new network has given the business confidence to start migrating services to the cloud to improve efficiency, and the ability to embrace an omni-channel offering. - Improved Customer Experience
Store associates have rapid access to inventory information and allow for real time placement of
click-and-collect and home delivery orders, preventing missed sales during stockouts.
- Visibility and Control
Access to the SD-WAN management platform provides clear visibility of all traffic at application level and allows for centralised control from head office. - Resilience and Performance
Using multiple connections ensures heightened uptime and availability. Prioritisation ensures that critical business payment applications enjoy priority over standard applications. - Cost Efficiency
By rationalising the underlay technology, improved flexibility, performance, and resiliency were achieved with no cost increase to the business. - Rapid Site Deployment
The flexible model allows bandwidth to be scaled up to meet demand and supports the rapid deployment of new store sites. - Responsive Support
Kerv’s managed services provide agile, responsive support that is carefully tailored to the right solution for the business.
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FAQs
FAQs about SASE and How Kerv Can Help Your Organisation
SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge, is a comprehensive approach to network security with
cloud-native architecture. It provides secure and scalable access for remote and branch users, and
Kerv ensures seamless SASE implementation tailored to your organisation’s needs.
SASE transforms remote access challenges into a seamless experience. Kerv acts as your trusted
partner, facilitating secure connectivity for your global workforce and turning remote work into a
strategic advantage.
Absolutely! Legacy systems often act as a stubborn defence, hindering progress. Kerv assists in
executing a seamless transition to modernisation with SASE, delivering a powerful shot that
bypasses complexities.
The financial landscape can be challenging, but Kerv, acting as the strategist, ensures that
implementing SASE saves money and giving you a competitive advantage.
SASE simplifies network security in retail by providing a unified, cloud-native, and edge-
integrated solution. It streamlines security measures, centralises policy management, and embraces
Zero Trust principles, reducing complexity and ensuring a secure and agile retail network.
SASE facilitates scalability by providing an agile and flexible network infrastructure. Kerv assists
in achieving scalability for our customers by tailoring SASE solutions to align with the specific needs
and goals of your organisation, ensuring seamless expansion or contraction of the network
infrastructure based on changing demands.
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Kerv’s Rapid-WAN accelerates the establishment of high-speed connections through a seamless integration of diverse network technologies, providing a swift and efficient SD-WAN solution.
This service offers substantial benefits for organisations focused on delivering timely and uninterrupted customer service, protecting against potential revenue losses attributed to delayed site openings. By doing so, it aids in maintaining competitiveness amid expansion.
Unlike traditional fixed-line networks, which often face delays in deployment, hindering revenue and productivity, Rapid-WAN emerges as a strategic alternative. This agile solution mitigates the need for sub-optimal approaches in getting sites online, ensuring reliable and consistent connectivity for businesses navigating expansion challenges.
Talk to us to find out more or book your Network Health Check to discover how your organisation can benefit from a more efficient, robust network.
