Audiocation offers advanced online training with SD-WAN on backup

Reliable connectivity is essential to Audiocation’s instructors being able to assist students improve their skills and take their careers to the next level.

“Stable Internet and phone connections are a necessity,” says Olaf Beckmann, general manager of Audiocation. “Without a quality internet connection, we can´t communicate.”

A VPN connected Audiocation’s three sites, which was comprised of two redundant Internet connections, from both a telecom and a cable provider. However, when the two Internet connections were used in parallel, latency caused interference in phone calls, disrupting the student experience. If Audiocation used only one Internet connection, the telephone connection would be immediately terminated when there was a malfunction, and the new connection setup via the Internet link could take up to 10 minutes.

With a Juniper SD-WAN, Audiocation now offers more seamless experience, helping 18,000 students per year hone their skills or acquire additional qualifications.

The Juniper SD-WAN determines the best WAN path per session flow and smartly routes around Internet congestion or outages to deliver an optimal user experience even for latency-sensitive applications like audio, voice, and video.

Audiocation also can get the full value of the bandwidth it buys. The tunnel-less architecture of Session Smart Router enables a significant reduction in bandwidth consumption. Dual Internet links can be fully utilized, with application traffic automatically load balanced.

With zero-trust security built into the network fabric, the SD-WAN also supports Audiocation’s commitment to data protection and privacy at both the German and European Union levels.