Reliable WAN Connectivity for Manufacturing Line
Like the other industries, manufacturing has the need to meet connectivity demands from employees, customers, suppliers and partners from disparate locations. Real-time information sharing on a stable WAN connectivity is always a key to business success because manufacturing always push towards efficiency across all of its operations. New technologies such as cloud applications, AI and IoT, have helped optimize operation efficiency, stock management and online ordering methods.
Adapting new technologies are making factories more efficient and responsive, and helping manufacturers stay ahead of competitors. However, new technologies require a stable WAN connectivity that comes with high bandwidth, low latency, and low packet loss. Besides, business-related applications have to be assigned with higher priority to bandwidth resources for greater performance. In order to gain a competitive advantage, this places pressure on manufacturing networks to improve network performance and efficiency. Manufacturing industry has to find a way to upgrade the network infrastructures to cope with these trends.
The Solution to Network Issues Facing Manufacturing Industry
Q-Balancer is an intelligent hybrid-WAN solution that enables manufacturing to integrate and utilize any combination of internet services they may have access to. Those services cover LTE, MPLS, fibre and broadband networks. Q-Balancer delivers an agile and robust network that ensures connectivity for business-critical applications, and enables IT teams to govern their network traffic routing with flexible PbR (policy-based routing). Its mechanism of dynamic traffic steering works in conjunction with path monitoring. This means critical applications will be able to avoid the path with high packet loss or latency and take the best path to ensure the application delivery.
> Cost Saving
Q-Balancer enables manufacturing industry to replace expensive MPLS connections with low-cost wired and wireless broadband connections. This saves a substantial cost without compromising the quality.
> Resiliency
Q-Balancer eliminates factory downtime caused by network outages. Use 2 or more internet connections and Q-Balancer active/active load balancing to dynamically steer critical applications around internet outages.
> Backhaul Penalty Prevention
Cloud-based applications are locally directed to the clouds rather than sent through the data center, while critical enterprise applications are still backhauled to the centralized data center via MPLS service.
> Increased Worker Safety
Q-Balancer increases worker safety and lower insurance rates by providing stable internet connectivity to surveillance systems in dangerous work environments.
> Data Security
All traffic is encrypted as it leaves a site, from factory-to-factory or factory-to-HQ. Q-Balancer's inbuilt security mechanisms can be configured to secure factory networks against unauthorized access.
> Flexibility and Scalability
Q-Balancer enables manufacturers to establish new branch network quickly, for example, a new offshore factory, where MPLS may be expensive and take a long time for deployment. With wired or wireless broadband connections and Q-Balancer in place, a new factory can start to work quicker than before.
> Time Saving
Q-Balancer cuts down provisioning times when adding a new factory network. QBManager, the centralized management system, enables manufacturers to provision, configure, and monitor branch networks from a single console.
