Multicast for IP VPN

business challenge

Rich media is being increasingly used within your enterprise, and applications such as video streaming, videoconferencing and e-learning are gaining in popularity. You are also using your network to distribute music-on-hold and send data streams to multiple users, such as software patches or anti-virus updates. All of these applications are putting a strain on your network, and you need a new approach to enable them run efficiently and cost effectively.

our solution

Multicast for IP VPN is a fully managed and innovative solution designed for rich media broadcast and native multicast applications, such as call center information synchronization. Unlike traditional network communication, known as unicast, which sends an end-to-end transmission individually to each recipient, multicast sends a single broadcast to all users.

our approach

It requires no additional customer equipment and is delivered as a fully-managed network-based service. Your multicasting traffic is carried over our IP VPN network, which means that it conforms to your existing classes of service. Multicast for IP VPN is available worldwide through a variety of different access methods, including SDSL, ethernet and leased lines, and you can subscribe to it on a site-by-site basis.

the result

Our solution reduces bandwidth usage and server loads for rich media or any application that has multiple recipients of the same information stream. Multicast for IP VPN has been designed to offer you higher performance by avoiding contention issues and sharing transmissions between many users.

business benefits

A single stream of information is distributed to thousands of users, anywhere in the world, increasing staff productivity. The larger the information stream and the more users who want to receive it, the greater benefit you can gain from multicasting. Costs remain under control thanks to bandwidth and server capacity savings and, no additional investment in equipment is necessary.