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California Telecom SD-WAN Platform vs. Contrail Networking (discontinued)

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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

    Contrail Networking (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AContrail Networking was solution that provided dynamic end-to-end networking policy and control for any cloud, any workload, NFV, and any deployment, from a single user interface. The product is sunsetted.N/A
    Pricing
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformContrail Networking (discontinued)
    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 PlatformContrail Networking (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformContrail Networking (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformContrail Networking (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformContrail Networking (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Best for: - Data Center Networking - NFVI Cloud Networking - Virtual Private Cloud for CSP
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Contrail Networking automates network resource.
    • Providing reliability and agility while extending visibility into your multi-cloud network.
    • Advanced analytics capabilities.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Contrail should have inbuild management of underlay network as well
    • lack of open resources to learn
    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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    Discontinued Products
    The platforms are very similar in networking concepts, at the interface level I found it easier to use Juniper Contrail than Cisco ACI. And at the cost level, I think it is cheaper.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Core of our NFV Cloud providing Multitenant Services
    • Give Agility to our Cloud
    • Wrokload any IP, anywhere
    Incentivized
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