Multi-Site SD-WAN Migration: Seeing Clearly During the Transition with Obkio’s Premium Plan

Moving your business network to the cloud is exciting, but getting there can be tricky. At Obkio, we know choosing the right plan can feel like a guessing game. Wondering if our Premium Plan is the answer? This case study shows how it helped Olymel navigate their SD-WAN migration.

Follow Olymel's journey and see how Obkio's Premium Plan, with its extra monitoring power, detailed reports, and quick problem alerts, helped them overcome “surprises” and make their cloud move a breeze.

This story is for multi-site businesses like yours, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) too, who manage important applications like voice and video calls. See how Obkio's Premium Plan can be your roadmap to a smooth cloud migration.

Obkio's Premium Plan caters to businesses like Olymel, demanding a robust solution for SD-WAN migration & co-management, troubleshooting network complexities, and maximizing IT team productivity. This plan offers an array of features specifically designed to empower SMBs, MSPs, MSSPs and businesses managing UC, VoIP, and other critical applications during network transitions.

• Increased Monitoring Sessions: The Premium Plan provides a significant increase in monitoring sessions compared to the Basic Plan. This allows for comprehensive monitoring across all network segments, including primary links, backups, and individual devices. In Olymel's case, with 36 agents deployed across their network, the Premium Plan's 10 sessions per agent (up to 360 total sessions) ensured they could monitor every critical aspect of their network during migration.
• Detailed Reporting and Analytics: Obkio's Premium Plan goes beyond basic data collection. It provides in-depth reports and analytics that allow businesses to identify performance trends, pinpoint recurring issues, and proactively address potential problems. For Olymel, these reports were instrumental in identifying the three sites with the weakest performance, enabling them to prioritize their resources and ensure a smoother migration across the entire network.
• Proactive Alerts and Notifications: The Premium Plan features customizable real-time alerts that notify IT teams of any performance anomalies or potential issues. This proactive approach empowers teams to address problems before they escalate and disrupt critical business operations. During Olymel's migration, these alerts were crucial in identifying the configuration error within their SD-WAN setup, allowing them to back up swiftly and minimize downtime.
• Quality Commitment and Dedicated Support: The Premium Plan prioritizes customer success with a commitment to quality and dedicated support. This ensures businesses receive the assistance they need to maximize the value of Obkio's platform. Olymel leveraged this dedicated support by scheduling post-migration meetings to establish a permanent monitoring setup tailored to their specific network environment.

One of Canada's top food processing companies, Olymel, focuses in packaging meat products, especially chicken and pork. Olymel, with headquarters in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021, marking a noteworthy achievement. Operating in five Canadian provinces, they have a vast network of more than thirty cutting-edge production facilities.

Olymel's cloud migration hit a roadblock right at the start. Their Internet provider's security settings were accidentally slowing things down (packet loss). Olymel needed proof it wasn't their fault, and that's where Obkio came in.

Obkio's monitoring agents tracked the network traffic and showed exactly where the slowdown was happening – on the ISP's side! This evidence helped Olymel resolve the issue quickly and get their cloud move back on track.

But Obkio's Premium Plan did even more. With extra monitoring power, Olymel could see how each part of their network was performing during the move. This helped them identify and fix a configuration error originating from imbalanced traffic distribution between the primary link and the LTE backup.

Olymel's cloud migration wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. Even after fixing the initial ISP issue, they knew there could be more bumps on the road in the future. That's why they kept Obkio's Premium Plan as their weapon for continuous network performance monitoring.

Think of Obkio's Premium Plan as a pre-built toolbox for your network. Obkio's "Golden Template" – a pre-configured monitoring setup specifically designed for SD-WAN – provided Olymel with everything they needed to keep their new cloud environment running smoothly from now on.

This toolbox included:

• Easy-to-read dashboards: No tech jargon here! These dashboards gave Olymel's IT team a clear picture of their network health at a glance.
• In-depth reports: Dive deeper with detailed reports that helped Olymel identify trends and potential problems before they cause outages.
• Smart alerts: Don't wait for problems to find you. Obkio's automated alerts notified Olymel the moment something needed attention.

Obkio even threw in some training sessions to make sure Olymel's IT team knew how to use all the new tools in their arsenal.

For businesses with mid-to-large, multi-site networks, Obkio Premium Plan is the perfect fit. We designed this plan with our customers in mind, incorporating all the essential features and functionalities a business might require for a smooth and successful cloud migration or any network performance optimization for that matter. The Premium Plan simply puts no limits on your network management capabilities.

Here's why limitations aren't a concern for businesses like Olymel:

• All-Star Features: The Premium Plan offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including increased monitoring sessions, detailed reports and analytics, proactive alerts, and dedicated support. This ensures businesses have everything they need to gain in-depth network visibility, make data-driven decisions, and proactively address potential issues.
• Streamlined Pricing: We understand that cost is a major consideration. The Premium Plan is priced to be budget-friendly, offering exceptional value without overburdening your financials.
• Scalable Solution: Growth is a good thing! The beauty of the Premium Plan is its scalability. As your network expands, you can simply add more monitoring agents to maintain comprehensive oversight. There's no need to switch plans or worry about limitations as your business thrives.

By choosing Obkio's Premium Plan, businesses like Olymel can navigate complex network transitions with confidence. The plan empowers them to identify and address potential problems before they disrupt operations, ensuring a successful migration to the cloud or any other network transformation journey.

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• 14-day free trial of all premium features
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• Measure real-time network metrics
• Identify and troubleshoot live network problems