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Our Services

Our extensive experience and proven track record allow us to tailor customised solutions to meet our customer’s individual requirements.

We offer professional and competitive services that include:

1. Software Development

Turn your ideas into reality with our expert software development services. Our team of skilled developers leverages the latest technologies to create robust and scalable solutions tailored to your unique requirements. From web applications to mobile apps, we’ve got the expertise to bring your vision to life.

2. Network Security

Protect your valuable data with AthelstanOne’s comprehensive network security solutions. Our experts will assess your network vulnerabilities, implement robust security measures, and continuously monitor and update your defenses. Rest easy knowing that your systems are safeguarded against cyber threats.

3. Cloud Computing

Unlock the power of the cloud with our cloud computing services. Whether you’re looking to migrate your infrastructure to the cloud or optimize your existing cloud environment, our team can help. We’ll ensure seamless integration, enhanced scalability, and improved cost-efficiency, enabling your business to thrive in the digital age.

4. IT Consulting

Need strategic guidance to navigate the complex world of IT? AthelstanOne’s IT consulting services are designed to provide you with expert advice and support. We’ll assess your current IT landscape, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop a roadmap to help you achieve your business goals. Maximize your technological investments with our trusted guidance.

Services & Capabilities:

PAIDA – AthelstanOne’s proprietary AI platform aims to enhance investment analysis and decision-making for institutional investors. PAIDA integrates data, delivers insights, and provides recommendations to help investors optimise their portfolios.

Natural Language Processing – A core capability they highlight is utilising NLP to extract valuable signals from unstructured textual data like earnings calls, news, filings, and reports. This allows investors to leverage AI to analyse qualitative data at scale.

Time Series Forecasting – Their technical expertise in predictive time series modelling enables accurate forecasts of critical financial metrics like asset prices, volatility, and correlations to inform risk management and alpha generation.

Portfolio Optimisation – AthelstanOne leverages optimisation techniques to construct portfolios that maximise returns relative to predefined risk thresholds, constraints, and investment objectives.

Simulation and Scenario Modelling – Using advanced simulation methods, AthelstanOne can model different possible future scenarios across macroeconomic conditions, asset classes, and portfolios to account for uncertainty.

Advanced Analytics – While specific capabilities are unclear, they broadly apply modern machine learning techniques across fundamental and quantitative strategies to provide actionable insights.

Data Engineering – Design, develop, implement and maintain systems to manage data. Prepare data for analysis.

Data Analytics – Turn data into insights. Quantify problems, find patterns, and understand relationships. Present insights through dashboards, presentations, and embedded applications.

Network Services – Support network infrastructure. Offer professional outsourcing, maintenance, and network security services

SD-WAN Service Portfolio

Unrivaled performance and connectivity options: MPLS, Ethernet, Local Internet, Broadband, LTE/4G in over 190 countries.

Real-time Network Analytics

Multi-dimensional visualization with replay functionality of application performance, network security, utilization, and end-user experience.

Secure Web Gateways

Secure Web Gateways located at 75+ globally distributed Local Cloud Centers (LCCs) closer to client locations to protect customers from Internet threats.

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Customer and Analyst Quote:

“Inteva’s business is dependent on our network performance and AthelstanOne global SD-WAN network services provide us with high network reliability and performance. AthelstanOne customer support team is highly proactive and responsive which allows us to focus on running our core business,” Dennis Hodges, CIO, Inteva Products, LCC.

“AthelstanOne is raising the bar in the telecom industry by reaching a global, 100 percent software defined network milestone and in offering a ubiquitous overlay of SD-WAN network, application acceleration, and security services for enterprises around the globe. Among the most innovative and globally flexible solutions available in the market today, AthelstanOne SD-WAN Service Portfolio delivers the reach, performance, and adaptability organizations need to meet today’s business demands and transform their enterprise networks.”

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Solution

Global business environments are changing quickly for the enterprise, driving rapid transformation in IT network strategies. AthelstanOne SD-WAN Service Portfolio offers enterprise customers solutions designed to support their global network requirements and is available today in over 190 countries.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN services transform the way networks are designed and built by leveraging the industry’s leading global SD-WAN platform to deliver a next generation WAN solution with application-awareness, optimized MPLS, Internet, or hybrid connectivity networking, fully integrated security and application acceleration services to optimize the user experience.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Service Portfolio provides flexible network connectivity options for enterprises with a rich suite of Internet security, remote access VPN, and application acceleration capabilities to ensure high levels of network availability, performance, security and allows customers to transform their network architecture, optimize connectivity to the cloud, and improve the overall end-user experience.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Service Portfolio is transport-independent. Based on the client’s specific reliability and overall business needs, AthelstanOne can mix and match multiple types of access technologies such as Ethernet, Internet, Broadband, Fixed Wireless and 4G/LTE, and deliver the most optimal connectivity solutions to the internet and to one of AthelstanOne 75+ global Local Cloud Centers (LCCs). AthelstanOne has the experience and relationships with over 1,000 local ISPs and network providers worldwide to ensure customers receive the best combination of speed, resiliency and performance at each one of their sites. Customers also have the flexibility to leverage their own provided network connectivity (Bring Your Own Access) anywhere in the world.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN solutions provide optimized routing capabilities to improve network performance for customers. AthelstanOne has the knowledge and expertise to design and support superior enterprise SD-WAN solutions with advanced routing optimization capabilities to distribute and manage customers’ traffic, including local ISP path optimization, traffic prioritization, and performance based routing via active-active path control.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN platform integrates AthelstanOne cloud-based security services such as Secure Web Gateway, SSL VPN and IP Sec (B2B) Gateways, and Application Acceleration Gateways. Our cloud-based services allow businesses to become more agile and responsive to user needs by providing self-service activation within minutes and real-time configuration change management through a secure customer portal. The portal greatly simplifies the set-up and management of customers’ global network, providing them with the tools to support on-demand capacity requirements and business continuity planning while reducing Capex expenditure significantly.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Service Portfolio supports 10+ leading and emerging SD-WAN CPE vendors, including both traditional CPE and uCPE. AthelstanOne uCPE service offering enables value-added Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) services at the customer premises. AthelstanOne works closely with our customers to optimize their network and security architecture by seamlessly integrating cloud and CPE based solutions.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN platform can extend customers’ network to optimize connectivity to major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle® Cloud and other popular cloud/SaaS applications, providing end-users with fast, secure and efficient access to cloud-based resources and applications.

AthelstanOne Real-time Streaming Network Analytics is offered in conjunction with its SD-WAN Service Portfolio, and allows customers to keep a pulse on the health of their network and continuously monitor traffic flows. The groundbreaking tool also provides multi-dimensional visualization of application performance, network security, and utilization, with replay functionality that enables CIOs and their IT staff to analyze and mitigate issues at the site level, application dimension, or individual IP address faster than ever before, leading to a greatly improved end-user experience.

AthelstanOne is able to strategically assist organizations with their network transformation and SD-WAN initiatives. AthelstanOne acts as a single point of contact for SD-WAN network design, delivery and installation of network and CPE devices, advanced 24×7 monitoring and management of customers’ global SD-WAN solutions on a global scale, and leverages predictive network analytics to proactively identify, detect and resolve network issues and optimize network performance to enhance end-user experience. AthelstanOne offers customers a portal that provides end-to-end transparency and unprecedented visibility and control into their SD-WAN services.

Platform

AthelstanOne SD-WAN platform is based on a groundbreaking architecture with 100% global software defined network for overlay services. The platform is locally distributed around the world via 75+ local cloud centers (LCCs), optimized for network, mobility, and security services. Our software defined network allows customers to have a more flexible and agile global network. Customers can activate new services in minutes and can consume services in flexible ways, including innovative pay-per-use models.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN platform enables the seamless integration of all services consumed by customers independent of connectivity type, technology, or solution architecture.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN real-time streaming network analytics offers CIOs and their IT staff deep insight into application performance, network security, and the end-user experience. The platform also supports the delivery of services from customer premises equipment located at customer branch offices.

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Features and Specifications

SD-WAN Network Connectivity

Enterprises require choices and flexibility to select the best SD-WAN network connectivity options at each one of their global office locations. AthelstanOne

has decades of experience and relationships with over 1,000 ISPs and network providers worldwide, and can ensure customers receive the best combination of speed, resiliency, and network performance at all their sites.

Based on the customer’s specific requirements and overall business needs, AthelstanOne can mix and match multiple types of network technologies such as MPLS, Ethernet, Internet, Broadband, Wireless and 4G/LTE, and deliver the most optimal connectivity solution for each customer office. AthelstanOne also offers connectivity options with full network and path diversity.

Alternatively, customers can provide their own network connections at any of their office locations and AthelstanOne will integrate those connections into a complete SD-WAN solution for the customer. AthelstanOne offers the option to manage customer provided network connections, eliminating a major pain point for customers in managing multiple network service provider relationships around the world.

AthelstanOne SD-WAN customers also benefit from AthelstanOne optimized cloud connectivity to major SaaS and Cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle® Cloud and other cloud providers.

Application Visibility

Business analytics are widely used by enterprises to gain visibility into critical data to better manage and transform their business. AthelstanOne brings the same approach to drive better intelligence and visibility for clients into the behaviour and performance of the enterprise network, application performance, and the end-user experience. To meet these requirements, AthelstanOne developed a powerful tool – “Streaming Application Visibility Analytics” to allow customers to have real-time in-depth view of their network and application performance:

Real time, interactive dashboards that enable enterprises to keep an instant pulse on the health of their network and applications and to continuously monitor traffic flows, allowing them to more quickly identify and respond to business impacting events.
Multi-dimensional visualization of application performance, network security, utilization, and end-user experience, enabling organizations to analyze issues at the site level, application layer, or individual user level.
Replay function that significantly improves enterprise IT/Network team’s capabilities to pinpoint and isolate issues that occurred in the past, and efficiency identify remediation solutions to prevent these issues from occurring again.

Routing Optimization

ISP optimization

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Platform provides optimized routing to enable the highest level of network performance for enterprise applications, bypassing Internet peering and congestion points. AthelstanOne SD-WAN solutions provide more connectivity to local ISPs, Cloud and SaaS providers resulting in the shortest and most direct path for customers’ network traffic.

Traffic Prioritization and Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS)

Standard SD-WAN offerings have an inherent limitation when it comes to QoS policy enforcement. Since most local ISPs do not offer or enforce QoS policies for inbound traffic destined to customer branch offices, traffic cannot be prioritized causing poor performance and a lower quality end-user experience. AthelstanOne global SD-WAN platform enables enforcement of QoS policies solving these challenges, enhancing application performance and improving the end-user experience.

Active-Active Path Routing

AthelstanOne SD-WAN supports active-active routing traffic simultaneously across all available network connections to customer sites such as MPLS, Internet, Broadband and LTE/4G. Routing policies are set-up to optimize network performance for specific applications.

Multi Cloud Connect

Customers are rapidly adopting cloud strategies to support their core business applications, computer workloads, and storage requirements. Migrating to the cloud requires a transformation of the enterprise network architecture and design to support an overall enterprise cloud strategy. As part of the AthelstanOne SD-WAN Global Platform, AthelstanOne Multi-Cloud Connect provides enterprises with the ability to directly connect their networks to public cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle® Cloud, and other cloud providers, without sending network traffic over the public Internet. In addition, Internet connectivity provided via the secure web gateways within the AthelstanOne SD-WAN Platform optimizes connectivity to leading public cloud and SaaS providers via the Internet.

Secure Web Gateway

As customers increasingly migrate to cloud and deploy SD-WAN solutions utilizing Internet connectivity, new security challenges emerge. Protecting enterprise assets becomes a critical requirement, and suddenly enterprises find themselves having to purchase and support local security infrastructure for every branch office, increasing complexity, risks and costs. As part of AthelstanOne SD-WAN Service Portfolio, AthelstanOne Secure Web Gateway offers customers distributed Internet security via over 75 AthelstanOne Local Cloud Centers (LCCs) located globally. The service suite provides fine-grained firewall policy enforcement with intrusion prevention, web content filtering, and malware detection reporting.

Customers can choose to deploy network and security services through AthelstanOne Local Cloud Centers, premises based dedicated appliance or uCPE option. Customers have the option to self-manage via a web portal or AthelstanOne can offer managed services.

Firewall Service

The Firewall offering includes:

Securing web application traffic from corporate environment to the Internet
Fine-grained policy enforcement – Configure and manage policies in real time through a web portal.
Application aware controls – Instead of typical port-based policies, a customer can choose to allow the application itself. No more worrying if a customer has the correct ports opened, or closed.
Address, service, and application group definitions – customers have the ability to configure their address, service, and application objects, as well as group them together.
Protects against SYN, ICMP, UDP, and other IP-based flood attacks and with customizable thresholds.
Protocol anomaly-based protection detects non-RFC compliant protocol traffic
Heuristic-based analysis detects anomalous packet and traffic patterns
Detects and blocks port scans, IP address sweeps, ICMP fragment attacks
Protection against HTML and malicious JavaScript
Detects and blocks viruses, spyware, known Bots, worms and Trojans

URL Filtering Service

Fully integrated, customizable web filtering engine allowing application of granular web-browsing policies
Destination-based policy enforcement
Choose 50+ web content classifications to allow or block
Definition of filtering rules and rule application
Whitelist and Blacklist capabilities – In addition to the category selection, a customer can specify specific URLs to allow or block
Activity reporting
URL database auto updates
Integration with Customer Authentication (Active Directory, LDAP, eDirectory) for role based filtering

Malware Detection Reporting

Malware Detection Reporting service includes:

Intelligent analysis of data flow:

Detection of a wide range of threats including malware, Shadow IT, phishing, Tor, etc.
Powered by a proprietary global risk database, compiled from over 60+ threat assessment sources
Prioritized reported alerts

Application Acceleration Gateway

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Application Acceleration Service provides customers with the ability to accelerate enterprise applications between any location – headquarters, data centers, branch offices, mobile workers, public/private clouds – anywhere in the world. The Application Acceleration Service includes TCP optimization, caching and compression, and application specific optimization to boost the performance of enterprise applications traversing the enterprise WAN.

The SD-WAN cloud-based Application Acceleration Service enables enterprises to avoid the high cost and complexity of dedicated application acceleration appliances at each branch office.

Customers can choose to deploy the Application Acceleration Services through AthelstanOne 75+ Local Cloud Centers, use premises based dedicated appliances or uCPE options. Customers have the option to self-manage via a web portal or AthelstanOne can offer managed services.

VPN Gateway

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Portfolio delivers scalable VPN gateway services to enable enterprises to connect to their business partners and support a mobile workforce.

AthelstanOne Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN Service enables global enterprises to meet the ever-increasing demand for mobile remote access, while eliminating the need for client-software deployment, changes to internal servers, and costly ongoing maintenance and desktop support. AthelstanOne offers integration with customer Active Directory and 2-Factor authentication.

AthelstanOne offers a unique feature that connects mobile users to the closest VPN gateway, enabling enhanced performance for remote VPN users. Application acceleration services are also available via AthelstanOne Local Cloud Centers.

AthelstanOne 75+ Local Cloud Centers distributed around the world also enable IPSec-based virtual connectivity to help enterprises connect their network to business partners, cloud, or SaaS providers. This also allows customers to create meet-me VPNs from their remote branch offices or third party locations.

Customers can choose to deploy network and security services through AthelstanOne Local Cloud Centers, via premises based dedicated appliances or uCPE options. Customers have the option to self-manage via a web portal or AthelstanOne can offer managed services.

SD-WAN Customer Premises Devices

AthelstanOne offers customers the choice of selecting AthelstanOne provided or customer provided SD-WAN devices at their sites. AthelstanOne has the knowledge and expertise to manage SD-WAN technology available from both established and emerging SD-WAN technology vendors in the market. AthelstanOne works closely with customers to design and implement an SD-WAN network solution tailored to their specific needs and currently supports 10+ SD-WAN and uCPE vendors including white box options.

Virtualized uCPE Services

AthelstanOne uCPE Services enable Virtual Network and Security Functions (VNF) on the customer premises which allows customers to optimize their network architecture, network performance, capex budget, and reduce their operational costs.

AthelstanOne uCPE service offering enables value-added VNF services on the customer premises using uCPE technology. AthelstanOne works closely with customers to optimize their network architecture and leverage a combination of VNF services running on uCPE at the customer premises or from the edge of the AthelstanOne SD-WAN global platform. Customers have the option to self-manage via a web portal or AthelstanOne can offer managed services.

AthelstanOne uCPE service offering enables a comprehensive set of value-added services at the customer premises.

AthelstanOne uCPE services can provide the following VNF feature functionality:

SD-WAN
Routing
VPN
Firewall, IPS
URL Filtering
Secure Web Gateway
Intrusion Prevention
SSL VPN
WAN Optimization & Acceleration
Authentication (AAA)
NAT, DNS, DHCP, IPAM
Application Delivery Controller (ADC)
Malware detection
WLAN functions
Application Visibility
Mobile Device Management (MDM)
Session Border Controller

AthelstanOne uCPE Services, in conjunction with AthelstanOne SD-WAN cloud-based service offerings, offers AthelstanOne customers an optimized network architecture, maximum flexibility, seamless integration, and rapid deployment capabilities to support customers’ enterprise network requirements.

Predictive Network Analytics

AthelstanOne SD-WAN Services are managed by world-class Global Operations Centers that perform 24×7 predictive modeling, monitoring and management with hands-on expertise across best-in-class technologies, delivering a superior end-user experience on a global basis. Predictive analytics algorithms and rules continuously analyze and process a large number of log and event data generated by network, security and other devices to accelerate the identification and resolution of client network issues before they affect operational performance.

AthelstanOne serves as a single point of contact worldwide for proactive management of a wide array of multi-vendor IT infrastructure – including SD-WAN, LAN, IP telephony, application acceleration and security devices – regardless of whether the architecture resides within headquarters, branch offices, private or public clouds.

Infrastructure Management Service

AthelstanOne Infrastructure Management Services provide full life cycle: architecture, design, implementation, upgrades, and full proactive 24×7 management of a customer’s global network and security infrastructure. AthelstanOne Global Operations Centers serve as a single point of contact to provide 24×7 coverage of a wide variety of customer-owned multi-vendor devices – including WAN routers, LAN Ethernet switches, wireless LAN controllers and access points, load balancers, application acceleration appliances, network security platforms, and Unified Communications (UC) solutions – deployed across geographically-dispersed customer headquarters, data centers, private cloud centers, regional sites, and branch offices.

AthelstanOne also provides carrier management services where we manage networks procured by customer from other carriers or local ISPs.

SD-LAN Service Portfolio

To understand SD-LAN, let’s backtrack a bit and look at the architecture and technologies that led to its emergence.

First, what is SDN?

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an architecture that decouples the network control and forwarding functions, enabling network control to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted for applications and network services.

This allows network engineers and administrators to respond quickly to changing business requirements because they can shape traffic from a centralized console without having to touch individual devices. It also delivers services to where they’re needed in the network, without regard to what specific devices a server or other device is connected to.

Functional separation, network virtualization, and automation through programmability are the key technologies.

But SDN has two obvious shortcomings:

It’s really about protocols (rather than operations), staff, as well as end-user-visible features, functions, and capabilities.
It has relatively little impact at the access layer (intermediary and edge switches and access points, in particular).

Yet these are critical elements that define wireless LANs today.

And so, what is SD-WAN?

Like SDN, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) separates the control and data planes of the WAN and enables a degree of control across multiple WAN elements, physical and virtual, which is otherwise not possible.

However, while SDN is an architecture, SD-WAN is a buyable technology.

Much of the technology that makes up SD-WAN is not new; rather it’s the packaging of it together – aggregation technologies, central management, the ability to dynamically share network bandwidth across connection points.

Its ease of deployment, central manageability, and reduced costs make SD-WAN an attractive option for many businesses, according to Gartner analyst Andrew Lerner, who tracks the SD-WAN market closely. Lerner estimates that an SD-WAN can be up to two and a half times less expensive than a traditional WAN architecture. SD-LAN is taking complex technology to solve complex problems, but allowing IT departments to work faster and smarter in the process.

So where and how does SD-LAN fit in?

SD-LAN builds on the principles of SDN in the data center and SD-WAN to bring specific benefits of adaptability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and scale to wired and wireless access networks.

All of this happens while providing mission-critical business continuity to the network access layer.

Put simply: SD-LAN is an application- and policy-driven architecture that unchains hardware and software layers while creating self-organizing and centrally-managed networks that are simpler to operate, integrate, and scale.

1) Application optimization prioritizes and changes network behavior based on the apps

Dynamic optimization of the LAN, driven by app priorities
Ability to focus network resources where they serve the organization’s most important needs
Fine-grained application visibility and control at the network edge

2) Secure, identity-driven access dynamically defines what users, devices, and things can do when they access the SD-LAN.

Context-based policy control polices access by user, device, application, location, available bandwidth, or time of day
Access can be granted or revoked at a granular level for collections of users, devices and things, or just one of those, on corporate, guest and IoT networks
IoT networks increase the chances of security breaches since many IoT devices, cameras and sensors have limited built-in security. IoT devices need to be uniquely identified on the Wi-Fi network, which is made possible by software-defined private pre-shared keys.

3) Adaptive access self-optimizes, self-heals, and self- organizes wireless access points and access switches.

Control without the controllers—dynamic control protocols are used to distribute a shared control plane for increased resiliency, scale, and speed
Ability to intelligently adapt device coverage and capacity through the use of software definable radios and multiple connection technologies (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/wave 1/wave 2/MIMO/ MU-MIMO, BLE, and extensibility through USB)
A unified layer of wireless and wired infrastructure devices, with shared policies and management
The removal of hardware dependency, providing seamless introduction of new access points and switches into the existing network infrastructure. All hardware platforms should support the same software.

4) Centralized cloud-based network management reduces cost and complexity of network operations with a centralized public or private cloud networking.

Deployment in public or private cloud with a unified architecture for flexible operations
Centralized management for simplified network planning, deployment, and troubleshooting
Ability to distribute policy changes quickly and efficiently across geographically distributed locations

5) Open APIs with programmable interfaces allow tight integration of network and application infrastructures.

Programmability that enables apps to derive information from the network and enables the network to respond to app requirements.
A “big data” cloud architecture to enable insights from users, devices, and things

As you can see, there is a lot that goes into making SD-LAN work. It’s taking complex technology to solve complex problems, but allowing IT departments to work faster and smarter in the process.