The global economy combined with new collaboration tools has put strains on the traditional Wide Area Network (WAN). Businesses are taking advantage of connectivity to drive down infrastructure and operational costs as well as increase productivity through collaboration.

Control Group has a deep understanding of business uses' of WANs; branch office infrastructures, vendor integration, collaboration, centralized administration. We can help avoid the common pit-falls that turn WANs into administrative burdens, stifling collaboration and costing the business in productivity, administration, and infrastructure. Our expertise in WANs is comprehensive, ranging from the carrier lines, to networks architecture, to applications and server systems housing data, and client access riding on top of it all.

There are many technical ways of dealing with the needs of today's geographically distributed business; leased lines, MPLS circuits, Dynamic VPNs, Wide Area File Systems (WAFS), edge caching appliances, presentation servers, Quality of Service (QoS), and traffic shaping being several options. Driving the technical solutions are the architectural design choices such as location of services for optimal WAN performance, client access, and administrative overhead. Whether you are implementing a WAN, upgrading an existing infrastructure or looking to roll out a new application over your WAN, Control Group can help you make the right choices to take best advantage of a wide area network.