Case Study: Castel Afrique improves distributed SD-WAN monitoring with Obkio

Castel Afrique improves SD-WAN monitoring across 66 sites with Obkio

Castel Afrique, a major distributor of wine and alcohol operating across Africa, faced significant challenges in monitoring the performance of its complex, continent-wide SD-WAN network. Due to unreliable telecom services characterized by oversubscription and high congestion, they needed a way to verify the performance promised by their SD-WAN vendor and quickly troubleshoot issues. Their managed service provider, SATLX, deployed Obkio's Network Performance Monitoring solution to address this need.

Obkio implemented a comprehensive monitoring setup with agents across 66 network locations, utilizing live traceroutes and thousands of daily speed tests. This provided Castel Afrique and SATLX with the visibility to identify and troubleshoot problems in real-time, verify SLAs with their telecom providers, and ensure they were receiving the bandwidth they paid for. The results were substantial, with the percentage of internet links reaching promised speeds improving from 39% to 53% within six months of using Obkio's solution.

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