Managed Networks for Retail
Hughes specialises in managed networks for retailers, delivering the fast, agile and always-on connectivity that your customers demand.
As the retail industry evolves with omnichannel shopping, AI-driven analytics, and cloud-based applications, maintaining high network performance becomes increasingly complex. With Hughes’ managed networks for the retail industry, your business can grow and evolve with ease while ensuring your customers enjoy an optimum shopping experience.
Keeping Retailers Connected, Secure, and Competitive
High-quality digital customer experiences, supported by real-time data and effortless transactions, have become central to everyday shopping activity. However, bandwidth-heavy applications, like in-store payment systems, inventory tracking and digital signage, can put a strain on your network. Any downtime or breach can lead to lost revenue, frustrated customers, and reputational damage.
Hughes provides tailored network solutions that expertly handle high traffic, data-hungry applications and rising cybersecurity threats across multiple locations. With our managed networks for retail, your business can scale and adopt new, engaging technologies without compromising security or performance.
Wireless WAN Enabling Flexible Connectivity for Retail Growth
If you’re expanding your business into new locations, pop-up stores, or high-footfall venues, setting up fixed broadband could delay your plans. Wireless WAN offers a flexible, rapidly deployable connectivity solution that gets your sites connected within days, not weeks.
Hughes Optimised Wireless Network Edge (OWNE) is our state-of-the-art hybrid wireless WAN solution that combines 4G, 5G, satellite, and microwave to deliver enterprise-grade connectivity for retail environments. Ideal for supporting digital kiosks, temporary sites at markets, exhibitions or festivals or for providing backup connectivity, OWNE ensures your retail business is connected, secure, and ready to serve customers as soon as you are.
Powering Retail Performance with Managed SD-WAN
Success in the retail industry relies on high-performance connectivity, supporting real-time transactions, accurate inventory management and outstanding digital experiences. A single network disruption can cause checkout delays, loss of sales and dissatisfied customers.
Hughes Managed SD-WAN ensures consistency and resilience across your network for all your operational activity. It improves WAN reliability while reducing latency by dynamically optimising network traffic across multiple connections. Centralised managed network activity enables you to prioritise critical applications, such as payment processing and customer engagement tools, supporting efficiency and ensuring a first-rate shopping experience.
Managed SASE for Secure, High-Performance Retail Networks
As your business expands its digital services across multiple locations, maintaining security while optimising network performance becomes more challenging. Hughes’ managed networks for retail offer a single, cloud-native solution to streamline management.
Hughes Managed SASE delivers top-tier network performance with built-in security, simplifying network operations. Benefit from fast, reliable access to all your applications, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and SaaS, whether on the shop floor, at head office, or working remotely. From self-checkouts to digital signage and customer Wi-Fi, Managed SASE enhances the retail experience while safeguarding your online activity.
Cybersecurity Solutions that Protect Retail Activity
As your business relies increasingly on digital payments, mobile commerce and AI-powered customer experiences, it becomes more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Without robust security measures, sensitive customer data and financial transactions are at risk from threats such as fraud, data breaches, and ransomware.
Hughes provides a time- and cost-effective approach to comprehensive cybersecurity for your retail sites. Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) delivers round-the-clock monitoring, keeping your business protected at all times. Meanwhile, our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) service implements bespoke cyber strategies tailored to your needs. Together, these solutions ensure your business meets industry regulations while maintaining sensitive data and consumer trust.
Choose Hughes for Trusted Network Solutions and Retail Success
Fast, reliable and secure connectivity is essential in the retail sector. Every transaction, digital interaction, and operational process depends on a network that can handle demand, adapt to change, and protect sensitive data. As your trusted partner, Hughes brings decades of experience in delivering top-grade managed networks for the retail industry.
In addition to our industry-leading, bespoke network solutions, our 24/7 support and proactive network monitoring ensure your business stays online, protected, and optimised for success. From upgrading digital services to expanding into new locations, we take the complexity out of connectivity management, using our proven expertise to keep your business competitive and running at peak performance.
Let’s discuss how Hughes can support your retail business.