Jasco has announced the availability of Avaya Fabric Connect technology, an innovative network architecture that enables organisations to build a future-proof foundation for next-generation technology.
Fabric Connect supports the deployment of virtualisation, cloud, mobility, and video, while simplifying the network and helping to reduce operational costs.
This assists partners and resellers to reduce network complexity and enhance performance with the deployment of multiple services, including IP Video Surveillance solutions.
“Fabric Connect enhances the Shortest Path Bridging standard, optimising traffic through the network based on the load or traffic profiles at any given time. This ensures the network is dynamically adaptive and efficient as well as improving resiliency with a sub-second recovery time.
“As a result, time-sensitive applications such as VoIP or video calls will never be dropped, and video from CCTV cameras will continue to stream uninterrupted if a route suddenly becomes unavailable due to congestion or a cable fault. End users will not even be aware of a problem, as their service will continue as usual,” says Greg Nicholas, manager: IT Infrastructure Solutions at Jasco Enterprise.
In addition to creating a more dynamic and flexible architecture, Fabric Connect-enabled networks offer a number of other benefits. Changes to configurations and the provisioning of new services can be implemented in minutes, instead of the hours or days required on traditional networks, as these changes are conducted at the edge of the network without requiring reconfiguration of the core.
This eliminates complexity and creates a simplified, flexible and efficient network that delivers the agility required in today’s fast-paced environment. In addition, the requirement for separate infrastructure to cater for complex network optimisations for multiple services such as voice, video and security surveillance systems has been eliminated.
“Provisioning and implementing converged networks and new systems such as bring your own device (BYOD), unified communications and more are all challenges that organisations across the world are currently facing. Enterprises in South Africa are looking to optimise and future-proof their networks in order to dynamically adapt to constantly evolving trends and requirements while keeping costs down.
“As enterprises implement Fabric Connect enabled networks and move more towards a Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategy, they will see these efficiencies not only in their network but also in their operating costs, with the simplicity and ease of deploying or provisioning new services to adapt to an ever changing landscape,” says Nicholas.
Fabric Connect provides sophisticated underlying technology that enables resellers and partners to efficiently implement their products or services and provide the customer with a quality end-to-end offering on a single network infrastructure. Network resiliency and ease of implementation enable greater productivity and efficiency for resellers and partners, enabling them to offer a range of managed services on the network.
With Avaya Fabric Connect, resellers and partners can enable their customers to become more agile by creating a dynamic environment where new services or changes can be implemented on the fly. In addition, complexity is eliminated for simplified management and troubleshooting, and network uptime is improved with sub-second recoveries for all Layer 2, Layer 3, IP routing, and IP multicast services.
“Multiple services, including IP video surveillance, have placed traditional networks under strain with high bandwidth requirements. In the case of video surveillance particularly, video feeds require constant, high-quality throughput to eliminate the risk associated with systems becoming inoperable due to lack of available bandwidth. Performance of video surveillance, VoIP, and other next generation technologies, is only as good as the underlying network. Fabric Connect enables our resellers and partners to offer their customers an efficient way to implement, converge or grow their network while gaining more agility, efficiency and resiliency,” Nicholas concludes.
