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California Telecom SD-WAN Platform vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

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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

    IBM Cloud Internet Services

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.

    $275

    per month, per domain

    Pricing
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformIBM Cloud Internet Services
    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
    IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard
    $275.00
    per month, per domain
    IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise
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    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    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 PlatformIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformIBM Cloud Internet Services
    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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    IBM
    In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward.
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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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    IBM
    • Integration with IBM Cloud applications
    • Easy to manage web application firewall
    • Ease of protecting CloudFoundry applications
    • Good console UI
    • Protection for rare managed service offerings such as CouchDB through IBM Cloudant
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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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    IBM
    • Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
    • Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.
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    Usability
    California Telecom
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    IBM
    I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure
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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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    IBM
    I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation.
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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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    IBM
    • It had a positive impact with a big improvement on the performance of web applications.
    • Services are quite fast to implement and easy to maintain from an IT perspective.
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