RCS Communication re positions, adopts SES Networks for superior service delivery

&NewLine;<p>RCS Communication&comma; an ICT company in South Sudan&comma; has adopted a Software-Defined Wide Area Network &lpar;SD-WAN&rpar; built upon SES Networks’ SD-WAN service that will enable RCS to deliver an improved user experience while optimising resiliency and bandwidth usage&comma; SES announced today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A statement signed by Kuhle Mkize and made available to OpenLife stated that SES Networks’ SD-WAN service is the first of its kind as it enables customers to optimally utilise their available WAN access connections ranging from Geostationary Earth Orbit &lpar;GEO&rpar; satellites and Medium Earth Orbit &lpar;MEO&rpar; constellation&comma; as well as fibre and other terrestrial links&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>RCS has been using SES’s low-latency MEO solution extensively since 2014 to provide reliable and uninterrupted Enterprise connectivity services to NGOs&comma; Embassies and businesses of various sectors in Juba&comma; the capital of South Sudan&period; With the recent availability of fibre networks in the country&comma; RCS began seeking services that would enable them to bring resiliency and intelligence to the edge and pass&nbsp&semi;end-to-end&nbsp&semi;traffic securely over different available WAN links based on application-aware steering&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Through SES Networks’ SD-WAN service&comma; RCS can dynamically and intelligently prioritise and route application traffic between its MEO satellite and fibre links&comma; resulting in improved up-time&period; Always-on network performance monitoring and analytics provides RCS with high visibility and insights on which to base informed decisions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Having been a long-time customer of SES Networks&comma; RCS is pleased to expand the partnership through SES Networks’&nbsp&semi;fully managed end-to-end SD-WAN service&period;” said Flippie Odendal&comma; Managing Director of RCS&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;SES Networks’ SD-WAN service has met RCS’s requirements and direction of moving towards intelligent&comma; software-defined services that will enable us to dynamically react to evolving market conditions and scale whenever needed&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We developed SES Networks’ SD-WAN service to bring to our customers&nbsp&semi;intelligent&comma; application-aware resiliency&comma; efficiency&comma; visibility and control&period;&nbsp&semi; In today’s cloud-scale world&comma; we believe it is essential that our satellite network services are a seamless&comma; integrated extension to our customers’ networks&period; Our SD-WAN service is another step towards enabling our customers to grow their business with more intelligent and resilient&comma; cloud-optimised services&comma;”&nbsp&semi;said John-Paul Hemingway&comma; CEO of SES Networks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;