OECM Awards New SD-WAN Solutions Agreement to FatPipe Networks

FatPipe Networks, the inventor and multiple patents holder of software-defined networks for wide area connectivity and hybrid WANs, has entered into a master agreement with Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM), a not-for-profit Group Procurement Organization (GPO) sourcing partner for Ontario’s education sector, broader public sector and other not-for-profit organizations.

Under terms of the agreement, FatPipe SymphonyTM family of SD-WAN products  will be available to Ontario’s education sector, representing 118 education institutions, along with the broader public sector across the province of Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Ministry of Education has a mandate to provide 1Mbps per student at each school, and in order to provide that in a cost-effective way, the school boards in Ontario can choose FatPipe’s SD-WAN technology to manage the augmentation and/or replace expensive MPLS/private WAN connections over time.

This is all based on research about using technology to better educate and prepare students for future higher education and careers. Prior to choosing FatPipe, the school boards were using MPLS/WAN connections, which were Internet backhauled to the Board Office/Data Center. The suggested architecture for the mandate is to gain additional connections/bandwidth for Internet-bound traffic at the schools rather than relying on backhauling over expensive MPLS.

The Conseil Scolaire Catholique (CSC) Providence school board is currently piloting the solution with a number of schools that are running a FatPipe-integrated Avaya Fabric (SDNFx) SDN (Software Defined Networking) solution for unified communications in their network.