A3 is Exponential-e’s family of services enabled with our APPLICATION AWARENESS & ASSURANCE technology. Following a major investment to upgrade our core NGN infrastructure, we can now offer our clients granular VISIBILITY and CONTROL of the application-level traffic running across both their WAN and their Internet, something that has never before been possible. This functionality makes A3 a powerful tool for companies wanting to comply with the UK’s new Digital Economy legislation.
What’s more, as a cloud-based service there are no costly on-site appliances to install This saves you Capex and makes A3 more affordable and infinitely more scalable than its appliance-based alternatives.
What is A3?
A3 (Application Awareness and Assurance) is a ground-breaking cloud-based service which gives users the power to view, manage and control the bandwidth traffic on their network at a business-application level using an intuitive self-service portal.
A3 over the WAN and the Internet
You can benefit from our pioneering A3 functionality over both our powerful premium Internet service PowerNGN and over our VPLS corporate WANs. When added to our PowerNGN service, the service becomes PowerNGNPlus, and when added to our VPLS Corporate networks, the service becomes VPLSPlus. Click on the links below to find out more about each of these services:
Why should I be interested?
In essence, A3 gives you the power to make your ICT budgets work harder for you, because with A3 you are in complete control.
A3 arms you with the intelligence you need to eliminate wasted surpluses in bandwidth across your network or Internet and reassign this to business-critical applications at the touch of a button. An intuitive self-service portal puts power and control firmly back into your hands.
The Self-Service Portal:
The service portal is a web-based application, its simple interface enables you to make changes to the performance of applications, generate reports and proactively adapt your work in real-time.
How is A3 different from other solutions?
Architecture: The key difference is our radical approach to the deployment of A3. Unlike any other vendor, we have an “appliance free” solution with no requirement for specific CPE equipment. This negates the need for complex solution design, costly hardware and software deployment, and significant maintenance and management expenditure.
Granular Management: With A3, not only can you reap the benefits of application identification and granular reporting, which other services provide, but you can also manage the prioritisation and performance of individual applications allowing you to secure per-application SLAs and enhance the “user experience”.
Cost: A3 is delivered to you from our cloud. We are taking a traditionally expensive, niche, value-add service and offering it to the whole market-place at an incredible price point. This makes A3 affordable for smaller businesses who previously found such service out of their price range. CPE-based approaches are not scalable (downwards) and because of cost can only be attractive to the very high-end enterprise sector.
Deployment model: Our deployment model allows us to deliver A
3 as a “self-service” or “managed service” offering at a fraction of the price, effort and complexity of what exists today. Uniquely A
3 is not just available over Corporate WAN solutions but also over single site Business Internet solutions.
