RETAIL Solutions

Secure and reliable application delivery for the retailed is critical in order to maintain customer loyalty and goodwill. The goal should always be to improve the customer experience at every interaction. If at any point during the sales process a customer has a bad experience, future sales suffer.

With that in mind XRoads Networks developed its Unified Bandwidth Management platform to ensure reliable application delivery from the data center to the individual store location. Our MVP Routing™ ensures that point-of-sale transactions take the quickest path to the remote server and that the servers themselves provide fast and balanced transaction processing.

Retail Solution Guide

Why The EdgeXOS?

The EdgeXOS platform works seamlessly with core Microsoft applications, Oracle, Siebel, and SAP in order to optimize and accelerate network connectivity for remote retail locations.

	Server Load Balancing (SLB) Balance HTTP, SSL and other traffic across multiple servers to provide faster responsiveness for end-users. SLB includes full session persistence to ensure that users stay connected even across multiple site logins.
	Web Bonding w/Acceleration (MSA) Provide internal users with true link bonding across two or more broadband connections in order to acces remote retail sites utilizing specialized caching and session splitting techniques which improves overall throughput and responsiveness.
	MultiWAN Optimization (S2S) Optimized access to remote retail sites, remote users and the data center. Beyond WAN optimization the EdgeXOS includes the ability to bond multiple broadband links to provide additional site-to-site bandwidth, and ensure automated redundancy in the event of an link outage.
	Active Network Redundancy (ActiveHA) Maintain 99.999% uptime using our network probing and deep path inspection technologies.
	Stateful Cloud Firewall Secure server connectivity by implementing policy-based firewall rules to prevent unauthorized access to specific sites/ports/protocols from specific destinations.

How To Implement?

The EdgeXOS platform is typically implemented in one of two ways, either placed in "NAT Mode" in which all traffic is NAT'd between the WAN links and the LAN switch, or placed in "Bridge Mode" where the WAN1 traffic is bridged through to the LAN switch, this means that the LAN is enable to communicate directly with the WAN1 routers gateway IP address without any changes to the existing network. Any additional WAN routers would be NAT'd and/or proxy'd by the EdgeXOS appliance.

Which Products?

The EdgeXOS platform comes in two forms, a fully licensed version called the UBM series, and a solution specific version called 'aXcel'. The 'aXcel' solution is designed to be scalable and can be license upgraded and typically has a lower entry price point vs. a similar UBM solution.

The SERVERaXcel and VPNaXcel is the appropriate 'aXcel' solution for SMB customers.