1. MPLS & Hybrid WAN Building the foundation for a Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

2. Your Business Challenges
Based on what we learned at last meeting
Security – need protection from Internet threats
Private connectivity to 3rd party cloud providers
Optimizing business and cloud network – greatest bandwidth at best costs
Application prioritization for performance
Network reliability and redundancy
Business continuity for applications
Concerns about your network design
Limited staff to support your network operation
More control and flexibility in utilizing multiple access connections
Improve performance and lower costs of connecting to cloud providers
Reduce management complexity of the WAN
Insert the Business challenges you prospective customer shared with you at a previous meeting. Listed above are some of the common issues many retailers & businesses have in common. You should focus on those issues mot pressing to your customer.

3. Key Features – MPLS & Hybrid Networks
Performance
Guaranteed bandwidth with six Class of Service (CoS) policies
Improved end user experience through direct connectivity to leading Cloud providers
Application performance ensured with automated prioritization policies
Flexible Access Options
Right-size network using any type of access: Ethernet, T1, Cable, DSL or Wireless
Private access separate from the Internet or MPLS over IPsec
Cloud Express for on-net access to growing ecosystem of Cloud-based applications
Reliability
Real-time failover options with wireless or broadband IPsec
Dynamic WAN selection to keep critical applications running
Security
Isolation from the Internet for private applications and Cloud Firewall option
Direct Connect to payment processors to ensue secure transactions
PCI compliant access over broadband Internet access
Listed here are some of the key features of MPLS and hybrid WAN networks
Managed Service
Silver level included for up/down monitoring and proactive ticketing
Gold/Platinum levels for proactive performance monitoring and reporting
Monitoring and remediation for network performance including availability, jitter and latency
Single Point of Control Portal
Complete visibility and control through myLink, with customizable dashboards

4. MPLS Network
A high performance and cost-optimized secure WAN solution designed and built to meet your network requirements. Optimize your network and cloud networks by adding Application visibility and Control, Dynamic WAN Selection and Cloud Express.
This is a simplified representative of a typical MPLS deployment.
The HQ or host site on a high bandwidth Ethernet connection and locations 1-4 on access types that provide the best bandwidth value – could be T1, DSL or Wireless).
Secure WiFi extends the network reach to offer private wireless for employees and guest WiFi for customers at locations 2 & 3.
This business is also using Direct Connect for processing transactions over the private MPLS connection for faster and less expensive payments.
Cloud Express delivers secure public cloud application connectivity to all MPLS locations without the expense of private connection or the latency of public Internet.
And with Data Center Connect, a business can share private cloud-based applications across all locations.
Cloud Firewalls protects all locations from Internet threats.
Application performance is optimized with Application Visibility and Control and Dynamic WAN Selection.

5. Hybrid WAN Network
Utilize MPLS IPsec Advanced to leverage low cost Internet bandwidth to connect international and domestic locations for both primary and secondary network connections.
Many business can benefit greatly from utilizing low cost high bandwidth Internet access to support the growing needs for more bandwidth, and remote locations.
EarthLink delivers this value with MPLS IPsec and enables a business to create a hybrid WAN – extending their MPLS network to include international locations.

6. You get a network designed to meet your needs
Cost Optimization: You get a right sized network design to ensure optimized performance and cost.
Guaranteed Performance: Guarantee application bandwidth with CoS prioritization.
Security: Protect your brand with a private network isolated from the Internet.
With EarthLink MPLS – you get a network designed to meet your needs
The EarthLink professional services team can help you assess you current network to ensure it is right sized to support your business applications – the Professional service team can also help you configure your MPLS network and assist in the migration.
Earthlink enable you to select the most economical designs. Choose from the best access options available, and reach your remote locations with MPLS over IPsec for remote locations. Utilize 4G/3G wireless for real-time business continuity backup.
MPLS deliver CoS prioritization so your mission critical applications always have the bandwidth they need to perform as expected.
And your data is secure over MPLS because its isolated form the Internet.

7. Network Visibility & Control
A SINGLE PANE OF GLASS
A CUSTOMIZABLE APP
Personalized User Interface
Build Your Own Dashboards
YOU SET what you see on your dashboard
YOU SET how your locations are displayed
YOU SET your level of security
YOU SET how you want to be notified
MPLS includes the next Gen myLink portal. The portal delivers anytime access to everything in your network environment. You get complete visibility and Customization for your dashboard
More than a Tool You’re Given, it’s a Tool You Create

8. Customize your solution to…
Improve Application Performance
Application Visibility and Control
Dynamic WAN Selection
Lower Your Burden of Management
Managed Network
Managed Infrastructure
Managed EarthLink Access
Provide Business Continuity
Wireless Access for Backup
MPLS IPsec Advanced for backup
Dynamic WAN Selection
Design/Implement the Right Size Network
Network Diagnostics
Migration Services
Configurations Services
Deliver Secure & High Performance Cloud based applications to all locations
Cloud Express
Cloud Express Firewall
Build a Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN solution
MPLS IPsec Advanced
Lower Cost with Voice Convergence
Hosted Voice
SIP Trunking
PRI, Business Lines
Improve Customer Experience
MPLS Multicast
Hosted Contact Center
Secure WiFi
Protect Your Brand
Managed Security Monitoring
Cloud Firewall
Premises Firewall
Secure Remote Access
PCI Compliance Solutions
Security Diagnostics
Compliance Diagnostics
Create a hybrid WAN to add low cost bandwidth
MPLS IPsec Advanced
International MPLS IPsec
You also get to customize your MPLS or hybrid WAN solution to meet your most pressing business needs….
Converging voice onto your data network can result in significant savings. A recent customer doubled the bandwidth across a 45 site network and experienced no incremental monthly spend, because they converged voice onto this network and they eliminated all the voice circuits and charges at each location.
To further enhance you customers experience and to help you gather business intelligence, we can provide a guest WiFi solution for you locations or a cloud-based Contact Center.
We can provide additional security services to help protect your brand, and your locations
Our managed solutions can help you refocus your operations staff by freeing up your ”dead money”
We can provide backup solutions at each location and configure your entire network to automatically failover
We have a suite of professional services to help evaluate your network, recommend a right-sized design, and then help with your migration
We can help you optimize your application performance over your existing network, thereby avoiding or delaying costly upgrades
And as mentioned earlier, we provide the building blocks to help you evolve to an SD-WAN

9. Helping you achieve key benefits
Let’s discuss further how your business can benefit from a MPLS or hybrid WAN service tailored to meet your needs.
In summary – an EarthLink MPLS offers some very key benefits:
Brand Protection with a private and secure network
Business continuity
Network Reliability to keep all critical applications running
Application performance optimization with CoS and QoS
EarthLink helps you right-size your network to optimize costs and with Managed Services you can redeploy your staff onto more strategic initiatives –
Next Steps? Let us help you by proposing a MPLS or hybrid WAN solution tailored to your business needs
Brand Protection
Business Continuity
Network Reliability
Application Performance
Reduce Costs