AppEx Successful Stories

An IoT Innovation Group

Global Networking + Service Access Optimization

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Global Networking – An Industry-Leading IoT Innovation Group

Customer Global Presence HQ Branch Office Mobile Office

Customer Profile
The customer is a major semiconductor display
manufacturer in the world, leading the industry with
Top 10 volume of patents. The company is also
providing smart products and professional services
for information interaction and human health as a
global recognized IoT innovation brand.

Project Background

As business grows, the company already extends the

service to major regions in Europe, America, Asia, Customer’s Challenges
and Africa. Apart from fixed office sites, they also
have mobile office staff who need to access company
Branch Office Staff Mobile Office Staff
intranet out of the office. The networking solution Service/APP Type OA, ERP, VoIP, Video Conference OA, ERP
based on IPsec can no longer keep up with the Current Solution Internet + IPsec VPN Internet + SSL VPN
business growth. Customer is seeking for a solution
Unstable connections, slow
to enhance global networking experience. Challenges downloading, terrible video conference Unstable and slow access
quality
Global Networking – An Industry-Leading IoT Innovation Group
AppEx SD-WAN Solution

Customer Benefits SSL VPN

OA/ERP
 Easy deployment with ZTP and one-click CPE CPE
Internet Internet
topology setup
 Fast service delivery and agile topology HQ Dubai Office

change
 Optimized service performance Internet Internet
South Africa CPE Brazil Office
 High availability of service guaranteed by Office
CPE

CPE HA, WAN redundancy, SD-WAN Mobile Office Staff Mobile Office Staff

backbone
 End-to-End highly secured data Test Data Collected on Site
transmission
Test Item Internet CloudWAN
 Flexible site bandwidth adjustment
 Visualized network management Delay for accessing OA 231ms 92ms
Indonesia - Beijing
 Easy maintenance File downloading speed 155Kbps 1.2Mbps
 High cost-efficiency Delay for accessing OA 350ms 216ms
South Africa - Beijing
File downloading speed 35Kbps 1.1Mbps
 A Fortune Global 500
Infrastructure Service Provider
Global Networking with High Security Requirement

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Global Networking – A Fortune Global 500 Infrastructure Service Provider

Customer Profile
180ms
The customer is a leading global comprehensive Poland
Mongolia
Kazakhstan
service provider of ultra-large infrastructure, Spain
Croatia
Serbia
280ms
Uzbekistan Kyrgyz
Tunisia 150ms 250ms
mainly engaged in the investment, construction and Morocco
Algeria Egypt
Iraq
Pakistan Xiamen Data Center
Saudi Arabia
operation of transportation infrastructure, equipment Sudan
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam
Overseas Access Region
Mexico

Senegal Djibouti Philippines

manufacturing, real estate and urban comprehensive Guinea

280ms
Sri Lanka
Singapore
70ms

Malaysia
Kenya
development. Congo
Tanzania
Indonesia 145ms Peru

Angola
Mozambique
Brazil

Project Background
South Africa Chile Argentina
Australia

The customer has established around 300 overseas

institutions in over 100 countries and regions around
the world. It is also a pioneer in digital transformation
and was bring new financial systems online. Based on
the result of well-designed pre-tests, the customer
finally chose AppEx CloudWAN as the global
networking solution, taking advantage of the well-
operated global backbone and the business-oriented
security solution of AppEx.
Customer‘s Challenges
 Extra-large networking covering 300+ subsidiaries and 4000+ user accounts
 Subsidiaries sites covering almost all continents, including regions with poor Internet access
 Secured access to the financial system was highly concerned
 Absolute security requirement by end-to-end encryption
 Cooperate with customer owned security system for access authentication
 Site statistics and logs required as the basis of security audit and future distributed system deployment
Global Networking – A Fortune Global 500 Infrastructure Service Provider

Customer Benefits Overseas Subsidiary

Less than 10 user CloudWAN Orchestrator

 Fast deployment and service delivery of SD-WAN SW Client

extra large network (site quantity &

Overseas Subsidiary Xiamen Data Center
geographical coverage)
 Significant optimization on performance of
cross-region connection and obvious CloudWAN
SD-WAN CPE SD-WAN CPE
improvement on user experience SD-WAN SW Client Cluster
Financial Service
System
 Flexibility in interfacing with 3 rd-part
Overseas Subsidiary
system for joint account management and Fixed location

access authentication
 Visualized network management and
service performance monitor
 Full-scale ZTNA solution
 Continuous per site/user/application usage
statistics and logs available for overall
network utilization analysis
SD-WAN CPE
 Client-based easy deployment at anytime from
anywhere
 Multi-factor authentication & Single Sign-On
 Terminal process checking
 CPE security with access control and
uplink/downlink binding
CloudWAN Security
 End-to-end encrypted tunnel for each access
 Access performance optimization to all
applications
 Continuous DNA/NAT audit
World Top Telcom Equipment Vendor
SaaS Access Optimization

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SaaS Access Optimization – World Top Telecom Equipment Vendor

Customer Profile
The customer is one of the global leading
providers of Information and Communication Internet

Technology to major service providers in the Shanghai Office SD-WAN CPE POP, SH

world. SD-WAN CPE

Internet POP, HK Microsoft 365 (including
Teams)

Project Background Internet CloudWAN

Beijing Office
POP, BJ POP, US/Europe
SD-WAN CPE
The company’s daily operation relies strongly on POP, GZ

Microsoft 365. Its offices in China has an Internet

average 3Gbps Microsoft 365 access. As the
overseas Internet connections are not stable, it is
always complained that Microsoft 365
applications are difficult to use and the quality of
video conference by Teams and Skype are
intolerable.
The company is seeking for a cost-efficient
solution to improve the experience of using
Microsoft 365.
Other SaaS Providing
SD-WAN CPE
Global Service
Guangzhou Office
AppEx Solution
 Deploy CPE at each site in bridge mode, enable bypass function.
 SaaS access traffic will be recognized at CPE and encapsulated into RTT for transmission, and the service will
be targeted to the SD-WAN backbone POP closest to the SaaS application access point.
 Teams traffic is assigned with higher priority over other applications.
 Subscribe bandwidth at each site according to real bandwidth need.
SaaS Access Optimization – World Top Telecom Equipment Vendor

AppEx SaaS Access Optimization

Customer Benefits RTT tunnel (integrated with ZetaTCP and SLA-based route selection) will be established for the SaaS access traffic
from the CPE to the POP closest to the SaaS access point. CloudWAN backbone with a global coverage will
guarantee an optimized SaaS access from anywhere.

 Obviously improved Microsoft 365 access RTT

experience
 Obviously improved video conference SD-WAN CPE
Office Site SaaS
experience
 Fast service delivery and flexible access
bandwidth adjustment Test Data Collected on Site
 Hardware bypass guarantees the availability
of critical services Test Item Internet CloudWAN
 Visualized network management and Skype/Teams Experience Lagging, Stuttering Clear, fluent
service performance monitor Exchange Online file downloading, 30MB 58-180s 9s
 High cost-efficiency OneDrive for Business file downloading 30MB 80-201s 6s

Teams Delay 289ms 53ms

Outlook Packet Loss 5% 0.6%

SharePoint Packet Loss 6% 0.5%

A World Famous Fast Food Chain
Chain Store Networking with Redundant WAN (LTE)

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Chain Store Networking – A World Famous Fast Food Chain

Customer Profile AppEx SD-WAN Solution

The customer is a famous Japanese fast food
chain store running over 2000 stores
Branch Office
worldwide. SD-WAN CPE

CloudWAN Branch Office

Project Background SD-WAN CPE
SD-WAN
HQ (Beijing) CPE
The customer is running hundreds of Branch Office
restaurants in China and also has several SD-WAN CPE
branch offices located in different cities. The Internet 4G
customer planed to build two separate Chain Store
networks under centralized management. SD-WAN CPE
SD-WAN vCPE
One for HQ and branch interconnection with
optimized service performance. One for Internet Chain Store

chain stores accessing the retails SD-WAN CPE

Retail Management
management system running on Alibaba System Internet
Internet Chain Store
Cloud with redundant WAN (Internet +
4G
SD-WAN CPE
LTE).
Chain Store Networking – A World Famous Fast Food Chain

Customer Benefits
Easy Service Delivery
Service delivery is simple and fast. With Internet connection, the
Design Operate
Plan CPE can be activated by ZTP. No experienced network engineer
Monitor needed on site.
Deploy
Change
CloudWAN Maintain

Chain Store WAN Backup

Optional dual-Internet or Internet + 4G WAN backup ensures a
high-availability of the connection to Retail Service System.

Flexible Topology Expansion

Easy adjustment for topology change, WAN connection change
and subscribed bandwidth change.

Overall Management
Visualized management providing an user-friendly user interface
HQ Branch/Chain Store Retail Service System
for customer to monitor the network with central-controlled
authorities.
A Multinational Conglomerate
Migration from Leased Line to SD-WAN

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Migration from Leased Line to SD-WAN – A Multinational Conglomerate

HQ, Beijing
Customer Profile Department Store
Leased Line
The customer is a multinational conglomerate
that operates in four key areas: commercial Cinema
properties, culture & tourism, e-commerce and
department stores. Leased Line
Hotel
Leased Line

Project Background IDC, Langfang

Self-Operated Store

The customer runs one data center at Langfang Franchise Store

and has service systems running on Tencent
Cloud. It owns hundreds of department stores,
cinemas, hotels, and Children’s entertainment
centers. All these subsidiaries were connecting
to HQ and IDC by leased line. The cost on
leased line connections increases as the
business grows. The customer was looking for
an overall networking solution with higher
cost-efficiency.
Customer’s Challenges
 Leased-Line is slow to deliver when new stores/cinemas are opening.
 Cinemas have no uplink redundancy, but the cost will be too high to use two leased lines for each site.
 Leased-Line bandwidth utilization is not high.
 All types of services are using leased line. There’s no QoS for different types of services.
 No overall visualized management of the network. Relying too much on Telecom service providers when network
failure happens.
Migration from Leased Line to SD-WAN – A Multinational Conglomerate

AppEx SD-WAN Solution Leased Line

 Deploy SD-WAN hardware CPE at Beijing HQ and SD-WAN CPE Department Store
Langfang IDC, deploy SD-WAN vCPE at Tencent Cloud.
Use cluster deployment to provide high-availability and Leased Line
future capacity expansion.
 For sites with existing leased line connection, introduce SD- SD-WAN CPE
HQ, Beijing Cinema
WAN connection as redundant link and configure load-
balancing to increase bandwidth utilization.
 Use 4G as backup link for high-reliability of sites.
IDC, Langfang 4G
Customer Benefits SD-WAN CPE
Hotel

 High site connection reliability guaranteed by WAN CloudWAN

redundancy with reasonable cost. Leased Line
 Fast and flexible topology change, bandwidth change, and Tencent Cloud SD-WAN CPE
new site delivery. Self-Operated Store
 Traffic steering increases bandwidth utilization of the leased
lines.
4G
 Different types of services are classified by QoS and critical
service will be guaranteed when the bandwidth is not Internet SD-WAN CPE
enough. Franchise Store
 Overall management of the whole network. Leased lines are
also under management.
A Leading Car Manufacturer
Data Synchronization between Clouds

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Data Synchronization between Clouds – A Leading Car Manufacturer

CloudWAN Orchestrator
Customer Profile
The customer is a joint venture of two leading Microsoft Azure
IDC (Beijing) t
car manufacturers. It is a automobile ne
ter
CPE In
manufacturer with1,000,000 units per year Internet
Internet
standard production capacity. Tencent Cloud

CloudWAN
Internet
AWS
Project Background CPE
Internet
In
ter
IDC ne
t
(Guangzhou)
The customer has one data center in Beijing and Tianyi Cloud
one data center in Guangzhou. There’re
different service systems running on different
AppEx Solution and Customer Benefits
public clouds, including Azure, AWS, Tencent
Cloud, and Tianyi Cloud. Data synchronization  Deploy SD-WAN hardware CPE at Beijing Data Center and Guangzhou Data Center.
is needed between data center and service  Deploy vCPE on the public cloud running customer service systems.
system on clouds and between service systems  Create a full mesh topology, created end-to-end tunnels between CPEs, and subscribed required bandwidth for the
data synchronization.
on different clouds.
 Service delivery on the same day of order placing.
 Leased-line like connection experience with much lower cost.
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