Case Study: National fast‑food & casual‑dining operator achieves near‑100% uptime and secure, high‑speed connectivity across 2,980 sites with Hughes Network Systems (HughesON Managed SD‑WAN)

Satistying Customer & Employee Appetite for Digital Services

National Operator Company, a national operator of company- and franchise-owned fast food and casual dining brands, needed more bandwidth and consistent, PCI‑compliant security to support mobile loyalty programs, guest and employee Wi‑Fi, self‑service kiosks, tableside/curb‑side ordering and third‑party delivery services. They engaged Hughes Network Systems (HughesON Managed Services) to solve these capacity, performance and security challenges.

Hughes Network Systems deployed a Managed SD‑WAN and HughesON managed services to 2,980 sites, installing enterprise and guest Wi‑Fi, a single HR Branch Gateway for secure SD‑WAN functionality, diverse transport links (including satellite and LTE backups), and ActiveTechnologies™ for application prioritization, with 24/7 management. The deployment delivered near‑100% uptime, faster internet and transaction times, improved app performance and guest access, elimination of brownouts/blackouts via dual broadband circuits and failover, and enhanced Next‑Generation Firewall security (DLP, IDS/IPS, web filtering, antivirus).