WHY USE GLO FIBER Business
Do business faster with Glo Fiber Business Managed Services
State-of-the-art technology
Cutting-edge technology and the most reliable infrastructure in the region.
Internet connections you can trust
Count on consistent Internet connectivity for you, your business, and your customers.
Enterprise Services that grow with your business
Take advantage of flexible Internet solutions that won’t slow you down.
Managed Switch
Glo Fiber Business’s ultra-reliable Managed Switch solution combines zero-touch deployment with a rich array of tools, including diagnostics capabilities, advanced network visibility, dynamic topologies and more for continuous, up-to-date understandings of your network — inside and out.
Simple & Powerful
Combine secure, scalable, robust performance with an intuitive management experience that requires no additional training.
Remote Troubleshoot Tools
Managed Switch offers powerful tools for identifying and correcting switch issues remotely, shortening your response to network events. Tools include: Packet capture, ping, throughput, traceroute, cable tests, cycle ports, MTR, and more.
Client and Layer 7 (Application) Visibility
Managed Switch offers Layer 7 application visibility at no additional cost, which allows you to monitor how client devices use your network’s resources.
Dynamic Topology View (L2 and L3)
Our automatic, self-updating network topology gives you a continuous, up-to-date understanding of your network health as you add or remove devices.
Switch Cloning
The dashboard features the ability to transfer the port-level configurations from one switch to another in three clicks.
Virtual Stacking
Our virtual stacking feature allows you to configure and manage thousands of ports simultaneously using the dashboard. Virtual Stacking is available on all MS models.
Intuitive Features and Settings
Deploy, Manage and Troubleshoot in minutes
Our switches offer zero-touch provisioning and can be configured entirely from a web browser. Pioneering network topology and remote packet capture features simplify troubleshooting, especially on remote locations.
Optimize Network Traffic
Configure multicast routing in minutes to eliminate traffic redundancy and improve network efficiency.
Network Visibility
View the network in real-time, showing devices and their connections and even monitor network-wide health. See what your client’s are doing on your network and see what applications are used most.
Troubleshooting
You have access to powerful tools to identify and correct switch issues remotely. These tools include packet capture, ping, throughput, traceroute, cable tests, cycle ports, MTR, and more.
Why do I need Managed Switch services for my business?
Managed switch capabilities can help businesses harness a more robust, secure and efficient network platform for their business operations as demands and requirements grow. This kind of managed service doesn’t just shift burdens off internal teams and free up time and resources for core business goals, but it can also help improve monitoring and diagnostics, enhance security, boost reliability and redundancy and more to deliver the very best networking foundations possible.
What makes Glo Fiber Business the best provider for me?
We’ve been in the business of networking for a long time — in fact, our parent company, Shentel, has been supporting deployments like this for more than a century. Our teams help you customize and perfect your networking solutions for your individual needs, and we back up our deployments with trusted and always-local support. In short: We know this space inside and out, our solutions are built for you and we’re always there when you need us.
What do I do when I need to change something on my network?
Our Managed Switch solution makes businesses’ lives easier and offers more control, giving access to powerful tools that help identify and correct switch issues remotely. This includes packet capture, ping, throughput, traceroute tools and more. Plus, our platform enables businesses to view their networks in real-time, showing devices and their connections and even supporting monitoring for network-wide health.
Managed WiFi
This Managed WiFi solution helps you get more from your wireless connection while empowering you to preserve your vital time, expertise, resources and personnel. Standing as a robust and reliable wireless access point for both your teams and your customers, Managed WiFi unlocks unparalleled performance alongside real-time analytics and other business-boosting services.
Location Analytics
Real-time location statistics improve customer engagement by capturing total number of visitors, total visits for a given site, repeat visit rate, and median visit length.
Lay 7 Application Visibility
Traffic analytics and granular, user-level data help optimize network and user performance. Layer 7 visibility combined with the group policy feature gives you greater flexibility in designing your privacy policies.
Wireless Health
Our powerful heuristics engine rapidly identifies anomalies impacting end users' experience across every stage of client connectivity - association, authentication, IP addressing, and DNS availability - for rapid root cause analysis and response.
Guest Wi-Fi
Deploy guest access using WiFi with a splash page, radius server, SMS, or Facebook login in seconds on the Managed WiFi dashboard.
Auto-RF Optimization
Delivers top performance in high-density or challenging environments by providing real-time and historical metrics on maximum system-wide performance.
Air Marshal (Wireless Intrusion Prevention)
IT round-the-clock protection and security from network vulnerabilities. The APs scan an environment and take preemptive action based on your preferences.
Intuitive, Robust Wireless Connectivity
Zero-Touch Provisioning
Simplifies deployment even before hardware arrives - the true plug-and-play deployment.
Unmatched Visibility
The dashboard gives visibility into the network users, their devices, and their applications. Armed with rich analytics, administrators can quickly create access control and application usage policies, optimizing both the end-user experience and network security.
Client network Access
See what your clients are doing on your network and see what applications are used most.
Live Troubleshooting Tools
Efficiently help eliminate downtime and keep your network up and running.
Intelligent Analytics
Your wireless network is analyzed to allow trends to be visualized and detect anomalies in the network. Allowing your team to quickly identify troubling patterns and correct them before they become an issue.
How does Managed WiFi improve my wireless experiences?
Strong, accessible and reliable wireless internet connections are the backbone of modern business experiences, but managing these capabilities can add undue stress for teams and take time and resources away from core business competencies. With Glo Fiber Business’s Managed WiFi, we help you deliver uncompromised experiences over your WiFi while also adding advanced analytics, security measures and management options to boost your results without added complexity.
What does ‘zero-touch’ deployment mean?
Put simply: Once you sign on for this solution, we do the leg work for installation. It’s truly a plug-and-play experience because we know you don’t want any interruptions to your business. We do the work of getting you set up (and provide our signature local support and expertise) so you can reap the benefits.
What kind of data and analytics will this provide me with?
With unmatched visibility and intelligent analytics capabilities, Managed WiFi helps you visualize trends, analyze data and detect anomalies in the network to identify patterns and stay ahead of your connectivity needs. This solution helps you track data across network users, their devices, their applications and more to implement new policies and deliver the best experiences.
Managed Network
With Glo Fiber Business’s Managed Network solution, both large and distributed organizations and in-office businesses can optimize and secure their mission-critical network deployments with Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) capabilities. Leverage a suite of unified options that deliver ease, security, customization and more for your best and most protected connectivity.
SD-WAN
With SD-WAN, remote sites are connected over low-cost internet links secured by VPN. It can maximize network resiliency and bandwidth efficiency. It can also ensure optimal performance for mission critical applications and help to avoid disruptions of highly performance-sensitive traffic, such as VoIP.
AMP
Advanced Malware Protection technology is integrated into our devices to continuously ensure all files coming into the network have been classified as clean, malicious, or unknown.
Content Filtering
Content Filtering protects the network from inappropriate or harmful content while maintaining productivity and compliance with applicable business and regulatory requirements.
Comprehensive Security
Every Security Appliance supports several features, like a stateful firewall and integrated Sourcefire intrusion prevention (IPS) engine, to keep networks secure. Threat definitions and filter lists are seamlessly updated, ensuring every site has bleeding-edge protection from the latest vulnerabilities and troublesome websites.
IDS + IPS
Provides intrusion prevention to protect networks from malicious attacks. Enabling and deploying IDS/IPS only takes 2 clicks on the dashboard. The IPS Security reports provide real-time graphical reporting, allowing you to quickly analyze threats and historical trends.
Auto-VPN
Set up your VPN with just 3 clicks. The dashboard features tools which give a real-time view of VPN site performance.
Robust Feature Set, Yet Easy to Use
Customizable
Allows for simple configuration of thousands of devices from a single user friendly interface.
Robust
Remote management is intuitive through 100% cloud-managed dashboard, allowing you to save time and money. All appliances are self-provisioning and automatically pull policies and configuration settings from the cloud.
Secure
Not only does your data stay on your network, but you also have access to content filtering, IDS/IPS, AMP, and iPsec VPN connectivity. You don’t need multiple solutions, which reduces complexity.
Fault Tolerance
Redundancy is built in to the Security Appliances: from dual WAN and cellular uplinks to maintain connection to the Internet, to warm spare failover that ensures service integrity, to self-healing site-to-site VPN that keeps branches and public cloud IT services securely connected.
Why are Managed Network services good for my business?
Business operations are taking place online in highly mobile and distributed environments, but even in a singular office, employees and teams are sharing mission-critical, proprietary information across devices. Securing every point and network connection across your business footprint is vital for protecting against vulnerabilities, bad actors and other malicious events that can impact your customers’ trust, your business operations — and ultimately your bottom line.
What kinds of functions does Managed Network include?
Network protection is a multi-faceted and constantly evolving mission, so our service is flexible and comprehensive enough to match both current and future requirements. Not only does this solution help your data stay on your private network, but it also delivers access to advanced content filtering, IDS/IPS, AMP, and IPsec VPN connectivity. Plus, this is all delivered through one simple service and user interface.
Are managed network options going to help me simplify my management?
Yes! Managed services of all types are key enablers for businesses, helping them outsource expertise and retrain their focus on core competencies. After all, internet connectivity is the fourth utility — if you had problems with your water, electricity or gas, you’d call an electrician or a plumber, right? So, why would you risk trying to manage your network challenges without an expert? Our solution is built to keep you secure while reducing burden on your teams, and our 100% cloud-managed dashboard is easy and intuitive too.
4G LTE Backup
With 4G LTE Backup from Glo Fiber Business, harness the highest levels of reliability, continuity and redundancy for critical business connectivity and reap the benefits of continuous network uptime regardless of any outages or disruptions on your primary service.
4G LTE Backup provides a fail-safe solution for uninterrupted network connectivity.
Business-critical applications rely on your network. Even a short disruption in internet service could result in lost revenue, dissatisfaction, and reduced productivity. Glo Fiber Business’s 4G LTE wireless backup service add-on will ensure your business stays connected in the event of a power outage, construction projects, or any other unforeseen occurrence.
Glo Fiber Business uses an affordable pre-configured businessgrade failover router that is ready to be dropped right into your network with no additional set-up required. The solution has always-on access to the 4G-LTE network, which will automatically switch on if the primary network fails.*
*Some customer LAN configuration may be required.
**Only available where 4G LTE service is available. Must have Glo Fiber Business DIA/WAN service.
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Learn more about Glo Fiber Business' complete network solutions for your industry-specific challenges. We provide innovative and efficient enterprise solutions for high-speed internet, business class voice, managed services and cloud services.
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Request a consultation today to get started with Glo Fiber's managed WiFi or managed network services for business. Whether you're running a small business that's just starting out or an enterprise business that needs new managed network services, Glo Fiber is perfect for all of your internet and voice needs. Let our team of friendly professionals help you reach more customers, faster with Glo Fiber's network management services.