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For any business that has a presence in China, there are a few unique factors that can complicate the performance of your Microsoft Office 365 suite. To establish an effective SaaS platform between Europe and CHina, your business may need to integrate a SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) solution to accelerate global access to your SaaS tools. But why? In this article, you can learn more about how you can achieve SaaS acceleration with SD-WAN with a look at accessing Office 365 in China.
The issue of accessing your Office 365 suite in China
The central role of Cloud software (SaaS) for large modern businesses is easy to assess. By providing real-time communication, analytics and results, your business can analyse and react without long delays.
Global workforces are always on and need around the clock access to key cloud-based resources such as the Microsoft Office 365 suite. But without proper internet connectivity, your cloud-hosted solutions will not run as required and negatively impact cross-border access and communication for your international workforce.
With an unoptimised network setup of your Microsoft Office 365 suite and other SaaS solutions, your international team can run into critical issues. Chinese internet service providers normally operate under regulated offshore connections that link the country’s internet to the global public internet. These connections go through perimeter devices, resulting in a significant risk of high cross-border congestion of the network.
What does this mean for your workforce in China? As your corporate network in China wants to access the global internet and your Office 365 suite, the issue of cross-border congestion can result in high latency and high packet loss that hurt the performance of important network services and data exchanges.
How SD-WAN accelerates SaaS
Luckily, there is a way for you to operate around the risk of cross-border congestion by using a private SD-WAN to link your corporate network across borders and accelerate your SaaS solutions. This means that your team in China accesses the Office 365 suite and the public global network via your own international private wide area network, thereby avoiding the regulated offshore connections that restrict SaaS performance and access.
The issues with high latency and packet loss are thereby squandered, leading to greater levels of unified communication between your local branches in various counties via improved SaaS application performance, cross-border on-premise video conferencing and conference services.
Special requirements for SaaS in China
Many network services are also inaccessible in China. To make your SaaS resources highly available to your workforce in the county, you may also need to acquire bespoke packages from domestic communication and network providers such as China Telecom. This not only ensures access for your teams but delivers high internet speed and a reliable Quality of Service that is vital for your workforce in China as well as in other countries.
