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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

    Tempered Airwall

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ATempered Networks is network security technology from the company of the same name in Seattle, Washington.N/A
    Pricing
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformTempered Airwall
    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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    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformTempered Airwall
    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 PlatformTempered Airwall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformTempered Airwall
    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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    Tempered
    It's very well suited for geographically dispersed organizations, where deploying and managing remote firewalls and other network security functions aren't practical. Once deployed, and the deployment isn't difficult after planning and understanding the data flows of the IoT devices, the system is easily managed and flexible. You're able to allow front line operations people to add devices into a role without sacrificing the integrity of the security model.
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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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    Tempered
    • Low capital and support cost structures.
    • Ease of deployment.
    • Ability to work over the existing network.
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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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    Tempered
    • Integration with third-party security controls.
    • Automating the on-boarding of devices.
    • Reporting needs to be more detailed.
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    Support Rating
    California Telecom
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    Tempered
    It's pretty darned good for a new company. We had to hash through a couple of instances that no one had ever run into, but once we got to the right person on the engineering team, they were able to work through the solution pretty quickly. The nice thing is, unlike Cisco, once you fix something, you don't find three new things that have to be changed.
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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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    Tempered
    The cost and complexity vs. ISE is as different as Uber and Lift are from trying to take a taxi in Duluth, Minnesota. The complexity of Cisco's IoT security is a joke. It was going to take us over a year just to deploy all the Cisco equipment, and that was if we could have gotten it all working together. We got the entire project deployed in just under 3 months, and that includes working out all the bugs and logistics. Honestly, I don't think all the Cisco parts would have ever been running like Cisco promised it would. It's just way too complicated.
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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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    Tempered
    • Capital cost to deploy was 1/4 the cost of doing Cisco.
    • People and time frame to do the entire deployment was 1/12th the time/people to complete the installation.
    • On-going management is being done without adding staff.
    Incentivized
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