Catering Industry

Yum (SD-Branch)

Yum (SD-Branch)

Yum! Brands, Inc. is an American multinational fast food corporation. It is a spin-off of  PepsiCo, after they acquired  KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. PepsiCo divested the brands in 1997, and these consolidated as Yum! The company operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill since 2020.
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Yum! is one of the world's largest fast food restaurant companies in terms of system units.



Customer demand

  • Branches nationwide need stable lines to operate the video conference system.
  • Branches across the country need to access the business applications of the Shanghai data center (which hosts two data centers) and summarize the CCTV monitoring data of stores nationwide to the data center.
  • As applications increase, the port bandwidth of each branch site can be flexibly allocated.

Customer pain points

  • Due to increasing business and operational needs, there is a need for higher bandwidth availability, affordable costs, while improving application performance, reducing network complexity, and strengthening network visibility and security.

Product selection More than 40 branch offices, distribution centers and headquarters data centers across the country adopted SD-Branch service + targeted application acceleration service
Usage effect EarthNet provides multiple SD-Branch services. Meanwhile, each branch site additionally offers a local broadband as last-mile access, enabling the separation of the customer's upstream traffic and internal network traffic while providing a backup mechanism; a unified management platform is provided to meet the customer's requirements for bandwidth scheduling, QoS scheduling, and global visual management; the MPLS platform is seamlessly migrated to the managed SD-WAN platform to ensure uninterrupted business operation
Benefit After the usage of the SD-Branch service, the group's line cost is 60% lower than that of MPLS
Expansibility Each restaurant site is planning adopting the SD-Store solution later