The Cybera SmartNetwork^SM delivers a robust and reliable networking solution centering around the SmartNetwork core, an MPLS-based backbone architected, managed and maintained by Cybera’s Support Management Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Cybera’s proprietary MPLS Plus network infrastructure utilizes the most advanced network equipment and routing functionality to maintain intelligence at the core rather than distributed to the network edge. The benefit to multi-location organizations is proactive management backed by industry-leading support, greater redundancy and reliability, and advanced features necessary to accommodate today’s leading edge IP-based applications.

The core is built on four primary fundamentals:

Architecture
Cybera’s network core was designed to manage all key network intelligence and functionality. By partnering with the largest service providers in the industry for core facilities and state of the art hardware, Cybera is able to integrate any type of last mile access into a seamless SmartNetwork solution. Cybera’s access-indifferent approach offers flexibility for a wide range of current and future application requirements with these benefits:

• Best-in-class technology and hardware deliver functionality to meet application and management requirements
• Reliability with no single point of failure for host locations or critical applications
• Scalability regardless of changes in business or technology demands

Prioritization
When a customer’s application environment is consolidated on a broadband network the ability to prioritize and manage data traffic is critical to performance. Cybera’s Prioritization capabilities meet this need by offering true end-to-end prioritization. Edge-in prioritization ensures that store-based transaction data critical to generating revenue receives the highest priority at all times.
Benefits:

• Cybera’s flexible prioritization solution is designed around customer specific business and application requirements
• Real prioritization allows customers to prioritize data streaming to and from remote locations by established or custom criteria
• Prioritization ensures that transactions won’t be held up by WiFi HotSpot traffic

Routing
Intelligence lies at the SmartNetwork core, streamlining processes and saving our customers money. With SmartNetwork all customer routing policies and special rules are built into the core of each SmartNetwork solution. Cybera’s senior-level network engineering team supports and manages all major routing policies such as OSPF, RIP, BGP, ISIS, dynamic and static NAT to mask private IP addresses, providing the following benefits:

• Complete outsourcing of wide area network functionality and management
• Enhanced application control management for more accurate and secure transmission of data streams to vendors, suppliers and processors
• Better efficiency and reliability for multi-application IP operating environments

Security and Redundancy
Cybera’s SmartNetwork DSLAM and frame switch configuration allows for private data transmission between remote locations and with key vendors and suppliers. Without the need to use the public Internet for data transport Cybera helps guard customer information from worms, viruses, malware, and other forms of malicious attack via the Internet. Cybera is PCI-CISP compliance-verified and revalidated annually, continually adding security enhancements and redundancy features that benefit all network customers.
Benefits:

• Supports a retailer’s efforts to maintain or obtain PCI-CISP compliance
• Bolsters public organizations’ regulatory compliance security requirements (such as HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC regulations)
• Helps protect both customer and corporate data traffic from security threats posed by the public Internet
• Multi-POP replication to keep your business running in case of a major telco outage
• Industry-leading SLA and five-part guarantee supports service assurance and business continuity