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Banca Popolare di Sondrio drives digital innovations in banking with Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN

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Sondrio, Italy, and Paris, France – 10 September, 2020 – Infovista, the leader in modern network and application performance, is helping one of Italy’s long established major banks, Banca Popolare di Sondrio, to deliver ground breaking digital innovations by leveraging Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN technology. The solution enables Banca Popolare to provide their clients and employees with digital experiences that simplify and streamline operations, improve convenience, increase response time and more by guaranteeing application performance and flawless user quality of experience (QoE). The solution combines advanced application visibility and control capabilities with machine learning and intelligent automation to provide dramatic improvements in application performance and reliability.

Founded in 1871, Banca Popolare di Sondrio employs approximately 2,700 people with around 500 branches across Italy. Although one of the oldest financial institutions in the country, the bank has embraced and pioneered new technologies to provide innovative online services for key public and private institutions including GesTes (Computer management of Treasury services) and digital signature for authorisation during sensitive information exchange.

However, as the bank has continued to enhance its digital capabilities, managing WAN-dependent application and service performance had become a challenge. The network operations team struggled with multiple network flow, diagnostic and troubleshooting tools – alongside special tools used by development and help desk teams to remediate network-related performance issues.

“The performance of the WAN – and of the user quality of experience for our applications – is critical to our business activities. Our goal was to address three key areas of concern around visibility, control and application performance,” says Claudio Libera, Network Engineer for Banca Popolare di Sondrio.

Following a detailed evaluation of multiple vendors and several Proof-of-Concept demonstrations, the bank selected Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN solution.  “After our evaluation process, it was clear that only Infovista allowed us to meet all of our requirements while offering the simplest implementation process,” says Mr. Libera.

This simplicity was delivered through Infovista’s unique Transparent Hybrid SD-WAN architecture that allowed the bank to gain end-to-end application visibility and control without having to re-engineer their network at each branch or office site.

Infovista uses software agents located at each of the 6 data centres maintained by the bank to turn branch locations and remote offices into “software defined sites.” The agents dynamically manage the complex application traffic flows across the MPLS network and other connectivity sources such as leased lines and ADSL, based on the bank’s defined routing policies. This includes some-to-any situations when flows from and to a branch terminate and originate in multiple data centres, including the Internet.  The built-in WAN Optimisation accelerates application response time by optimising protocols and increasing available bandwidth by substantially reducing the volume of unnecessary data transmitted across the network.

The Infovista solution is deployed across the majority of the bank’s sites and has been running without interruption for 24+ months, which has allowed Mr. Libera to evaluate the extensive benefits. “The improvements to our network visibility and control have been significant” he says, “We have implemented management policies that allow us to see instantly how applications and services are performing at every site connected to our WAN. If we see any issues developing, we are able to take proactive steps to dynamically manage our quality of service controls and improve application performance before it impacts our services, or negatively affects client relationships.”

Another major benefit is the flexibility of the solution that allows the Bank to configure network and application performance alarms in a granular and highly targeted way. “We are now alerted at any point in the day if there is a significant application or network event,” he adds.

“Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN has given us confidence that we are in control of our network performance,” says Mr. Libera,  “As we evolve our digital services, it offers us a solid foundation to better plan our future network requirements and the flexibly to add capacity in a seamless way to meet our business goals.” 

About Infovista

Infovista, the leader in modern network performance, provides complete visibility and unprecedented control over modern networks and their applications. Infovista delivers brilliant user experiences and maximum value for networks and applications. At the core of its approach are data and analytics, to give service providers and enterprises real-time insights to make critical business decisions. Infovista offers a comprehensive line of solutions from the radio network to enterprise to device throughout the lifecycle of a network. No other solutions provider has this totality of vision. More than 1,500 enterprises and service providers around the world—including 250 of the world’s top mobile network operators—rely on Infovista. Know Your Network with Infovista.

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Monty Mobile: The First Company in the Middle East & Africa to Provide 5G End-to-End Solutions for Telcos

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5G End-to-End Solutions for Telcos

Monty Mobile provides an in-house, cost-effective, well-optimized 4G+ and 5G end-to-end wireless solution serving both small and large-scale mobile and fixed operators targeting both urban and rural areas.

Moreover, operators are offered flexible payment plans for up to 5 years, first payment after 3 years, helping them stay ahead of their competitors.

This on- cloud solution guarantees improved scalability, mobility and security in addition to great savings on both CapEx and OpEx.

With this solution, Monty Mobile is introducing an alternative to Tier1 Telecom Suppliers such as Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, and ZTE.

“The best is yet to come; stay connected!”, says Mountasser Hachem, Founder & Chairman of Monty Mobile.

More details regarding this full end-to-end solution will be disclosed in the Inside Telecom magazine next month in an exclusive interview.

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Africa’s Leading Independent Telecommunications Services Provider, Phase3 Telecom moves onto Digital Connectivity Enterprise in Nigeria and West African Sub-region

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The upgrades will cover security features, performance enhancements. agile update capacity and quality delivery mechanisms.

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 10, 2022: Africa’s leading independent aerial fiber optic network infrastructure and telecommunications services provider, Phase3 Telecom, is enabling advanced digital connectivity, improved performance and enhanced network security for enterprise. This drive is targeted at cost efficient and unified network endpoint management for businesses in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.

This development is also designed to amplify Phase3 enterprise value active network deployments for MSMEs, large scale corporates and institutions.

According to the company’s executive chairman – Stanley Jegede, “this expansive service optimization is targeted at improved coverage on Phase3 network routes through Africa as well as to assure solutions that help businesses  transform and scale seamlessly.

He says, “Phase3 current network upgrades is an ongoing exercise and will cover security features, performance enhancements, agile update capacity, and quality delivery mechanisms for enterprise segments. Especially in the areas of productive work-from-anywhere or do-business-from-anywhere and digitized remote connectivity solutions”.

In addition to the company’s focus to increase enterprise based networks data handling capacity and their capability to access data within dissimilar sources faster vis-a-vis smarter, as today’s global clime demands.

Jegede, in his concluding statement says, “Phase3 layered digital capabilities will both enhance Phase3 network architecture and compliment legacy connectivity service experience in remote locations with significant Phase3 presence and network access points.

About Phase3 telecom

Phase3 Telecom is a leading independent fiber optic infrastructure with Points-of-Presence (POPs), colocation, and NOCs in Nigeria. Issued a National Long Distance Operator (NLDO) license in 2003 by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and with a vibrant as well as a dedicated team of experienced professionals, we are the network of choice for high-performance, data-intensive and low latency connectivity that span dedicated internet access, MPLS VPN, metro ethernet, wide area network solutions etc. We currently operate across the ECOWAS region and international markets through strategic partnerships that allow us to connect our clients across 400 cities worldwide. And ours is an extensive and secure network with end-to-end capabilities that service providers and businesses can rely on to scale, manage costs and assure efficiency. As our network continues to evolve into other layered service streams, including cloud-based and network security solutions – our invaluable clients will continue to remain the core of every investment that we make; innovation that we create; and technology that we adopt during the 4th industrial revolution to position us as the network of the future.

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Digital Therapeutics Revenue from Health Insurers to Reach $8 Billion Globally by 2026

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Hampshire, UK – 14th March 2022: A new study from Juniper Research has found that digital therapeutics revenue from health insurers will increase to $8 billion by 2026, up from $1.1 billion in 2022; representing a growth of 610 percent over the next four years. Digital therapeutics are clinically validated software programs for the treatment of chronic medical conditions, either independently or in conjunction with other therapies.

The report found that digital therapeutics facilitate the proactive mitigation of chronic medical conditions before they require costly interventions; enabling health insurers to reduce long-term costs per patient. However, it highlighted that these savings will be limited to health insurers in developed regions, where consumer devices and digitalized health infrastructure are ubiquitous. As such, it noted that health insurers in Africa and Latin America will contribute less than 2 percent towards health insurer-led digital therapeutics revenue in 2026.

A new research, Digital Therapeutics & Wellness: Key Trends, Business Models & Market Forecasts 2022-2026, identified that insurers will also benefit from an ongoing shift among digital therapeutics vendors towards engagement- and results-based payments. It recommends that therapeutics providers looking to leverage this trend prioritize the development of performance benchmarks, as demonstrating improvement and preventing patient abandonment will become a direct monetary issue.

Machine Learning to Move into Advisory Role as Liability Issues Emerge

The report forecasts that the number of people using digital therapeutics will increase by 381% over the next four years, and recognizes that machine learning will be key to this growth by facilitating advanced data analytics, remote patient monitoring, and real-time conversational coaching. However, it cautioned that an ongoing lack of standards surrounding the use of machine learning within digital therapeutics will result in vendors limiting its role in their offerings.

Research author Adam Wears explained: “As developers and healthcare providers increasingly grapple with issues of liability and malpractice, machine learning will transition from a patient-facing role to a diagnostic tool offered through provider-facing dashboards; to be used by clinicians and specialists in a manner akin to traditional computer-aided diagnostics.”

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