The Leader in Network-as-a-Service Installations
Cairo Networks Delivers Tomorrow’s Network Today!
Bringing the AI revolution to your enterprise network
A.I. is undoubtedly the buzzword of the year! Companies are learning how new A.I. technologies can add supplement or improve the services needed by business operations, and this trend has finally reached the enterprise network.
Other I.T. technologies like storage and compute began migrating to the cloud long ago. However the campus network, along with all of the labor-intensive, capital-funded equipment and the super-smart people needed to keep it running, is only now beginning to embrace the cost and labor savings that A.I. can bring to your enterprise.
Cairo Networks can help you to upskill your team
from network maintenance to network innovation!
There are so many everyday tasks that your team performs that they don’t bother to put on LinkedIn. And why don’t they?
Because many of the basic network operations aren’t glamorous.
They are tedious and even dreary!
Let’s take a common example, the dreaded “network refresh” lifecycle… does this seem familiar?
Traditional networks are usually replaced on five year cycles, due to both capital tax reasons and vendor-imposed end-of-life product schedules. The network refresh process is intensive, and it can easily take a network team six months to progress from the initial discovery phase through acquisition and installation. That’s a lot of time and effort spent by the network team! But there’s an easier and smarter way, one that provides a better set of business outcomes:
Better security, integrated inside the network layer
Simplified network management
No more capital expenditures
Consumption-based costs to match the business’s needs
Lower cyber security premiums
“FTE Recovery” by refocusing your team on desired business outcomes
So what does this actually mean? And how can Cairo Networks help?
Cairo Networks is an authorized reseller and installer for Nile, the leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) company. Nile was founded in 2018 by a group of industry luminaries including John Chambers (former Cisco Systems CEO) to apply a clean-sheet approach to enterprise networking. Nile’s Access Service provides a highly-secure network using custom-built networking equipment with A.I. integrated into the hardware, and a scalable management platform in the cloud. The design principles, installation process, and maintenance of a Nile Access Service network are simplified dramatically when compared to a traditional network, and are designed to eliminate network support tickets entirely.
As a Nile reseller, Cairo Networks can design, integrate, and support a new campus network for you that needs far less regular care and feeding from your network team, allowing your network team to spend more time helping your business achieve its goals and growing their skillset!
How can Cairo Networks deploy Nile’s Access Service to help your company?
Choose a category to learn more!
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Security starts with the physical products. Nile’s network elements have no console ports or remote access protocols for a hacker to attack, and the devices will not function if removed outside of your network.
At the network level, there are a number of significant advantages:
INSTANT SECURITY:
While 802.1x authentication has been prevalent on Wi-Fi for some time, it has traditionally been difficult to deploy on the wired side. Your new Nile Access Service provides 802.1x authentication in hardware, and uses the concept of “least access” privileges straight out of the box: no client device gets access until the device and/or the user has been identified, and then it only receives the access you define in your security policy.STOP MALWARE:
All traffic entering the network, wired or wireless, is blocked by default from moving East-West within the network, preventing malware propagation.STOP HACKERS:
The Nile network equipment itself has no SSH, telnet, or web interfaces, further reducing the attack surface available to hackers.TRUE ZERO-TRUST:
Using true Zero-Trust principles, no wired or wireless device can connect to the Nile network unless that device is known or approved by your I.T. teams, giving you complete visibility and control of your entire network.A SINGLE POLICY TO RULE THEM ALL:
Every packet entering a Nile network is presented to your best-of-breed security devices (such as a Palo Alto firewall) for inspection and a policy decision before the traffic is forwarded to its destination. This allows you to build a single security policy applied to every device and user connecting to your network.
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Enjoy the financial benefits of a payment-friendly, consumption-based payment model from Day One, with guaranteed outcomes!
NO SERVICE CONTRACTS!
Say “goodbye” to those expensive service contracts you have to pay after you’ve already spent a massive CapEx on hardware. Nile has no service contracts!SAVE YOUR MONEY, PAY VIA OPEX!
Nile’s Access Service is typically paid via a predictable OpEx mechanism, instead of requiring you to budget for a large refresh cycle every few years.PAY ON YOUR TERMS
Nile’s Access Service can be paid for entirely up front, monthly, quarterly, or annually.GUARANTEED PERFORMANCE
Nile is the only vendor to offer Performance Guarantees! If the Nile network doesn’t meet the contractual-bound obligations around Availability, Coverage, and Capacity, Nile provides significant billing credits against your next bill.FLEXIBLE CONSUMPTION MODEL
As your business grows or contracts, Nile’s service can adjust elastically to meet your evolving needs.SAVE ON CYBER INSURANCE PREMIUMS
Nile’s enhanced security mechanisms can translate to reductions in your cybersecurity premiums.
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Your business’s needs and goals require modern solutions and dynamic employees to help you reach your business objectives. Here’s how Cairo can help:
NO MORE REFRESH CYCLES
Skip the dreaded Refresh Cycle! When your network needs an upgrade, Nile provides it at no charge as long as you’re a customer, saving your team months of work.ELIMINATE CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR NETWORK
With Nile managing and maintaining the underlying infrastructure, network maintenance and security can change from a daily task to a monthly check-in.LET YOUR SMART PEOPLE BE SMART
Between the reduced stress and workload on your team, your smart people can focus on business-advancing initiatives to help propel the business forward.ELIMINATE HELP DESK TICKETS
Elimination of most, if not all, network trouble tickets is possible! A network that inherently understands all of the users and devices connecting to your network automatically provides them with only the access they require, and it follows them around the enterprise automatically.NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE
A Nile access service network is designed with full redundancy, eliminating single-points-of-failure.
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The amount of work involved in a network refresh is staggering. Your team will no longer lose months of productivity while they test, select, and install the new network.
REFRESHES NEVER SEEM TO END
The repeating process of refreshing your enterprise can make it feel like you’re stuck in the movie “Groundhog Day”, reliving the same nightmare over and over.CAIRO INSTALLS YOUR NEW NETWORK
Cairo Networks will perform a survey of your existing network, develop a new design and BOM, and install and activate the new network, saving your team tons of manhours and frustration.STOP PATCHING YOUR NETWORK
Because the responsibility for your network hardware, software, and uptime are now on Nile’s shoulders, your team doesn’t lose six months every time a vendor decides to EOL their hardware to force an upgrade cycle.NETWORK UPGRADES INCLUDED
As your client devices change, as your business scales up or down, or as new technology standards arrive, Nile is responsible for upgrading your network hardware for as long as you’re a Nile customer!
About Cairo Networks
Cairo Networks is a premier authorized reseller and certified integrator for Nile, the leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) company. Committed to delivering tomorrow’s network today, we specialize in bringing the AI revolution to your enterprise network, transforming tedious and unglamorous basic network operations into opportunities for innovation. Our goal is to enable your team to upskill from network maintenance to strategic initiatives, allowing them to focus more on business goals and professional development. We achieve this by providing better security, simplified network management, predictable consumption-based costs, and eliminating the need for large capital expenditures associated with traditional network refresh cycles.
Led by CEO Michael Landry, Cairo Networks leverages decades of deep expertise in selling, designing, and installing campus networks. Michael's background includes two years as a field engineer and six months as a product manager at Nile, after spending 15 years delivering networks for Aruba Networks. His successful completion of all three of Nile's certification badges ensures a highly knowledgeable and technically proficient approach to every project. Cairo Networks can deliver Nile’s Access Service anywhere in the country, and we have established connections with trusted cabling contractors and Nile-certified "smart hands" installers if needed to ensure seamless nationwide deployments.
We provide end-to-end services for the Nile Access Service, which is natively secure, perfectly autonomous, and delivered as a service. Our offerings include performing comprehensive site surveys, developing network designs, and conducting professional installation and activation of the new network. With Cairo Networks and Nile, you benefit from built-in Campus Zero Trust security, financially-backed performance guarantees, and the elimination of most, if not all, network trouble tickets, ensuring a highly reliable and efficient network experience.