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Nile has redefined how networks are designed, deployed, and managed, as the traditional model used by other vendors often leaves customers with underperforming networks wrought with coverage holes and security gaps. Nile’s new approach ensures customers receive the most secure, reliable, and high-performing network that boosts IT efficiency while minimizing maintenance tasks and trouble tickets.
At the heart of this transformation is the innovative software that powers our wired and wireless hardware. Nile examined conventional software development and management practices and identified the need for vast improvement. By focusing on five key areas, we realized we could deliver significant benefits to our customers. Here are the five ways our cloud-delivered software model delivers meaningful results.
- Faster innovation
Customers frequently utilize six or seven different versions of network device firmware within their environments, depending on their chosen hardware. This lack of uniformity can result in upgrade challenges, feature discrepancies, and security patches that may take months or even years to implement. It’s a persistent issue that many in IT have learned to accept despite the inherent risks.
In contrast, Nile has taken a new approach and developed software using a single codebase designed to operate on all Nile Service Block hardware, including switches, access points, and sensors. With this unified code or firmware model, all Nile components are developed, tested, and deployed together. This streamlines the development process and allows for rapid feature updates, less stressful upgrade decisions, and the ability to quickly remediate any security flaws in the firmware.
- Automated software updates and patches
As described above, the uncertainty about which code version or firmware to use for each legacy network hardware model often meant that weeks or months of planning were required to perform software upgrades.
With Nile’s Campus NaaS model, we can test our software against a variety of AI-generated digital twin environments to ensure that the software performs as expected. We then work with our customers to choose upgrade windows and manage software upgrades and patches on their behalf. This not only reduces IT operational overhead but also ensures that software updates are handled promptly and that changes are properly tested and validated pre- and post-update. Our customers benefit from a consistent software environment across the entire network stack.
- Strengthened Security and Compliance
Managing different software releases across various network hardware and licensing models can lead to inconsistencies and vulnerabilities. With fragmented updates, keeping up with patches across the entire network becomes complex, increasing the risk of security gaps and compliance issues.
Nile continuously monitors for firmware vulnerabilities and swiftly delivers security patches through rapid software updates. In addition to ensuring that customers are gaining new features and fixes on a regular basis, these updates are, also ensuring that our firmware updates are offering greater threat protection, as well as security compliance benefits.
- Unified data analytics & insights
Maintaining strong performance and uptime metrics becomes challenging when running a patchwork of software versions across different network devices. Inconsistencies in updates and configurations can lead to inefficiencies, downtime, and vulnerabilities. At Nile, we understand the critical connection between uniform software management and network reliability. That’s one of the reasons why we’re the only vendor offering a performance guarantee with 99.95% uptime, ensuring our customers achieve consistent, high-performance results across their entire network.
To achieve the industry’s first 99.95% guarantee for network availability, capacity, and coverage, we rely on real-time data collection and analysis for continuous optimization. Our always-up-to-date software offers full visibility at the network, device, and application levels, improving the accuracy and depth of our AI-driven insights. As a result, we deliver optimizations that consistently meet or exceed this high standard.
- Simplified Management through Automation
As mentioned, customers no longer need to worry about managing or maintaining network device software—Nile works with you to take care of it. This means you benefit from automatic updates, enhanced security, reduced IT workload, and consistent network performance.
The key difference is that network and security management, along with monitoring network, device, and application health, is centralized in the cloud and accessible through the Nile Copilot dashboard. Because the Nile Access Service operates on a unified software codebase, many configurations traditionally handled manually are now automated, ensuring uniform, error-free network and security policies. Additionally, Nile is constantly adding new management and automation features that deliver improved visibility and streamlined control.
A New Approach with Nile
Whether it’s our cloud-delivered software model, integrated zero trust security, closed-loop automation with AI insights, or our financially-backed performance guarantee, Nile has made painstaking efforts to deliver customers the most advanced wired and wireless LAN on the market. If you’d like to learn more about how Nile can reinvent your organization’s network, we suggest looking at the following:
- Network Design for Today’s Evolving Business Environment
- Automated AI-driven Software Upgrades for Cloud-like LAN Efficiency
- 5 Steps to a Successful Nile Transition
Alternatively, if you’re looking to see the Nile Access Service in action, feel free to book a custom demo.
