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    California Telecom SD-WAN Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is a technology that offers benefits to organizations seeking to optimize their network infrastructure. California Telecom blends the benefits of SD-WAN with support and a team of Tier-3 Network engineers to provide a helping hand to come alongside organizations' boots-on-the-ground teams. Some benefits that have been identified are: Improved Network Performance: Dynamic…

    $170

    per month per installation

    Cisco TrustSec

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A
    Pricing
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCisco TrustSec
    Editions & Modules
    250 Mbps - Standard
    $170
    per month per installation
    300 Mbps - Standard
    $185
    per month per installation
    600 Mbps - Standard
    $210
    per month per installation
    1 GB - Standard
    $300
    per month per installation
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    Pricing Offerings
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCisco TrustSec
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCisco TrustSec
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformCisco TrustSec
    Likelihood to Recommend
    California Telecom
    CalTel SD-WAN platform is well suited for organization that are looking for scalability but in a cost-effective way. CalTel SD-WAN platform is also suited for organization who do not want to use their internal resource managing this system
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    Cisco
    • Control access to critical enterprise resources by business role, device type, and location, so policy changes can be made without redesigning the network.
    • Easily manage access control and segmentation while maintaining compliance.
    • Create and manage policies in an easy-to-use matrix.
    • Reduce the need for costly network re-architecture by automating firewall rules and access control list (ACL) administration.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    California Telecom
    • Inovative infratructure for scalability and realiability.
    • More cost-effective from service to support
    • Proactive monitoring
    • Knowledgeable engineers
    • Seemless implementation
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    Cisco
    • Reduce operational expenses by simplifying network segmentation and defining security groups based on business roles, not IP addresses.
    • Limit the impact of a data breach by quickly isolating and containing threats using technology already in your network.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    California Telecom
    • Jim G. works well with executive staff in discovering ways to meet requirement, implement a more scalable technology, while still being cost-effective. Jim will need to replicate himself in order to be able to have others to do this type of work instead.
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    Cisco
    • Help and solutions if needed, support
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    California Telecom
    Cal-Tel is more cost effective, reliable, and have a more proactive management.
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    Cisco
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    Return on Investment
    California Telecom
    • Moving from Windstream system to CalTel cut gave us a monthly savings of $371K /yr for our phone and internet expenses.
    • It also allowed us to be more proactive when a circuit has trouble and allowed us to have redundancy.
    • Also allowed us to easily migrate our servers to a Data-Center and manage the traffic.
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    Cisco
    • Reduction in IT operational costs
    Incentivized
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