Additional locations, including the company’s headquarters and manufacturing operations, will be rolled out over time.Īt each store, EdgeConnect is terminated with one MPLS circuit bonded with a second commercial internet circuit. Taking advantage of technical assistance from Aruba, Candy and his team began rolling out the EdgeConnect platform, starting with 21 store locations in the UK and Germany deployed in just under five weeks. Delivers a High-quality Customer Experience “What stood out with EdgeConnect was we could get all this additional functionality with zero overhead on the network,” Candy says. He also saw how to further improve network services to the stores and enhance the business with additional capabilities like automation, path conditioning, quality of service, dynamic path control, and application-based traffic prioritisation. With EdgeConnect, Candy found the automated, sub-millisecond circuit failover he needed to solve the network downtime problems. But he quickly discovered that SD-WAN could bring much more to the business when technology partner, CDW, introduced him to Silver Peak and the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform. Self-healing SD-WAN Keeps Stores Up and RunningĬandy knew that SD-WAN enabled automated circuit failover.
That single point of failure became detrimental to the business.” Candy recalls, “The best we could do was fall back on manual trading. If that circuit went down the stores could not complete customer transactions or digitally demonstrate their cool products. The challenge for Technical Operations Manager Brad Candy was each store had a single MPLS circuit connecting to critical data centre applications. Even shopping in one of Lush’s stores across the UK and Europe is a 5-star experience, enabled by technology. When people want to luxuriate in the bath or shower, many choose soaps and shampoos from Lush, known for its fresh, ethically sourced and produced bath and beauty products.
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