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Accelerating Healthcare
Business Growth with SD-WAN
INDUSTRY

A national dental practice that provides accessible, high-quality

Healthcare

dentistry and orthodontics to patients of all ages needed toOBJECTIVES• Centralize operationstransform its legacy infrastructure to address multiple challenges
related to its ongoing expansion: WAN resiliency, demand for• Reduce IT costs

availability and security compliance adherence.

• Increase bandwidth across theenterpriseProblem• Ensure consistent internet
connectivity in all locations

With the practice rapidly growing, it needed to support its 41 dental offices• Automate consistent data andcompliance managementwith direct internet access, hosted voice, data storage and applications• Accelerate time-to-service

necessary security and HIPAA compliance. With new locations on theRESULTS

Centralized
management of all locations andconnection types through a single
pane of glass

40% Reduced
Maintenance and support costs

Doubledfor billing, insurance and patient records. All offices also needed to meethorizon, additional issues that could impede future growth needed to beaddressed including:
1. Better internet connectivity in underserved areas. Offices needed
to provide highly available connections for workforce collaboration
tools including hosted voice to improve customer service and reduce
response times.
2. HIPAA compliance management is a complex and arduous task
taking months to handle software upgrades for the practice’s national

bandwidth capacity per office

footprint after internal validation. Deployments and documentation

through load sharing and aggregationneeded to be more efficient.

across multiple connections

3. Opening up new offices used to take as long as 90 days due to provider

60% Improved

circuit and vendor equipment lead times. Time-to-market had to bereliability per office with the Versa

improved to meet patient and practice demand.

SD-WAN’s seamless failover andmission based routing capabilities

Solution: S-Net’s Managed SD-WAN

100% AutomatedAfter a careful assessment of the dental practice’s unique business needs,

data and compliance management

S-Net determined that its managed SD-WAN service, powered by Versa

Accelerated
time-to-service with centralized,
zero-touch provisioning and mass
deployment capabilities

Networks, was the best technological solution. S-Net’s SD-WAN offering
enabled the enterprise to reduce both its Capex and Opex costs, effectivelyincreased bandwidth and improved IT responsiveness. The time and effort

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required to manage the practice’s network and application performance was minimized and overall enterprise security
was enhanced as a result of S-Net’s managed SD-WAN deployment.
S-Net’s strategy significantly reduced the practice’s overall IT spend, improved and secured its site-to-site connectivity,and efficiently increased overall bandwidth – all while enabling the management of the entire network as well as
standardized security policies in an active-active environment through a single pane of glass.

About S-Net Communications
Founded in 2006, S-Net has grown from a small market player to a major name in high speed fiber Internet andVoIP business phone systems for enterprises and SMBs. Today, the company has over 30,000 subscribers on its
communications platform and a strong, global customer base. Defined by high-quality customer service and precise
attention to detail, S-Net is one of Chicago’s leading cloud solution providers.
For more information, please visit http://www.snetconnect.com.

About Versa Networks
Founded by network industry veterans, Versa Networks is an innovative vendor in the SD-WAN and SD-Security
market. Versa’s solutions enable service providers and large enterprises to transform the WAN and branch networks
to achieve unprecedented business advantages. Versa’s carrier-grade NFV software provides unmatched agility,
cost savings, and flexibility, compared to traditional network hardware. The company is backed by premier venture
investors Sequoia, Mayfield, Artis Ventures and Verizon Ventures.
For more information, visit http://www.versa-networks.com.

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