Enterprises can expect a new era of performance and flexibility

The name of the game in today’s market is flexibility. And when making any investment in IT networks, enterprise customers want flexible, cost-effective service plans to support the changing needs of their business. Why, then, has choosing a high-speed broadband service plan sometimes seemed to be more complicated and confusing than doing your taxes?

Hughes Network Systems is changing this paradigm by introducing a menu of packaged service plans that will make it easy for IT managers to make cost-effective choices and empower organizations with the flexibility to grow and adapt. “These generic offerings will speed up the whole process of deploying broadband services for enterprises that want to reap the benefits of a fast, ubiquitous network,” said Mike Cook, senior vice president of sales and marketing for the North America division.

These plans add real value to a company’s bottom line by delivering four critical success factors:

• A wide range of service plans
• A clear migration path into the future
• Ubiquitous coverage
• A single-vendor solution

Hughes’ new broadband service plans offer the bandwidth and performance choices to support a wide range of applications—from simple credit authorization, to remotely accessing data, to transfer of bandwidth-intensive media files for training, digital signage or business TV, to loss prevention/security applications. Enterprises can choose the appropriate plan for their applications and number of users, enabling them to run their organizations more efficiently and cost-effectively. Moving from one plan to another to meet new demands can be as simple as a phone call.

HNS’ new broadband service plans are based on its advanced new family of broadband satellite routers—the DW7000 series. The DW7700 is the first product in the family to roll off the production line and will begin shipping in June. The DW7700 is a true enterprise-grade IP networking platform that delivers the required throughput and performance to support the full range of high-speed service plans, today and well into the future. Plus, it comes with two LAN ports, a serial port for legacy protocols, and an RJ-11 for dial backup, thereby giving IT managers flexibility in configuring all their remote branch offices.

The DW7700 will work in existing DIRECWAY broadband networks, protecting clients’ past investments. This feature also means that certain locations within a network, such as distribution centers that run more bandwidth-intensive applications, can have higher level service plans than stores or smaller branch offices.

“Businesses don’t always know where they will be two years down the road,” continued Cook. “Now they don’t have to gamble with their network investment. A single vendor, Hughes, can provide a robust network solution that easily grows and changes with them, and supports their mission-critical applications every step of the way.”