HUGHES Leadership in the Enterprise Market
Hughes is one of the premier managed network services providers to the large enterprise market in the U.S. For over 20 years, Hughes has been a trusted network services and product provider to industry leading companies in retail, restaurant, hospitality, and oil and gas. Hughes’ unique satellite heritage, hardware development, application software capabilities, and depth of service delivery expertise, enables Hughes to bridge the best of wireline and wireless technology to offer innovative enterprise grade solutions that are unmatched in the industry.
- 20+ years of experience managing large-scale enterprise networks
- Top-tier IP VPN Provider according to Vertical Systems Group (2008)
- Frost & Sullivan North American Retail Market Leadership Award (2007)
- Recognized by the Yankee Group as a top-tier managed network provider
- Approximately 225,000 locations for 60 Fortune 500 enterprises
- Acquired Helius Inc. (2008), a leader in business IP video delivery for digital signage, corporate communications and training applications
- Global service delivery with sales offices and operations worldwide
Our Customers
Hughes Managed Network Services frees enterprises and government agencies to focus on running their operations while Hughes manages their networks. Our team can offer the most comprehensive range of network design, program management, implementation, and operational capabilities to meet the most complex and demanding communications requirements.Retail
Blockbuster
Blockbuster is the world’s leading renter of videos, DVDs and video games, with thousands of retail locations across the U.S. Blockbuster uses Hughes’ Optimized VPN services to enable key applications like high-speed, always-on credit card verification, store-polling, and browser-based business applications.
TJX Companies / TJ Maxx
TJX Companies Inc., the world’s largest apparel and home fashion off-price retailer, employs a Hughes’ High-Availability VPN service to deliver the highest availability to their retail outlets across the US.
Restaurants
Denny's
Menu updating is just one of the challenges a Denny’s franchise owner eliminated when using Hughes’ Optimized VPN service. Through the Denny’s program, franchise owners can benefit from improved communications, operational efficiencies and transaction speeds.
Jack In The Box
Jack In The Box is a leading quick-service restaurant in the U.S. that serves burgers, fries, soft drinks, salads and tacos, as well as breakfast items. Jack In The Box relies on Hughes’ Optimized VPN service to quickly and securely process their customers' POS/credit card transactions at many of their company owned and franchise locations.
Retail Petroleum
BP
BP Products uses the Hughes’ Optimized VPN service to get millions of customers on their way fast at over tens of thousands of stations throughout the U.S. and Europe. With Hughes, BP retailers can not only run standard POS/credit card transactions, but also support back-office applications like e-mail, inventory management, and tank-level monitoring, and add new revenue-generating applications like video to the pump advertising.
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil, the largest integrated oil company, uses Hughes’ Optimized VPN service at tens of thousands of its gas stations throughout North America. With Hughes, ExxonMobil can provide their customers streamlined POS/credit card transactions at the pump and leverage the network for back-office applications like e-mail, inventory management, and tank-level monitoring.
Hospitality
Wyndham
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with properties in over one hundred countries. Wyndham recently updated their network with Hughes’ Optimized VPN service, ensuring core applications run smoothly and provide the flexibility to scale future operations. Wyndham was so pleased with the results, they presented Hughes with an Outstanding Service Award in appreciation.
Best Western
Best Western has thousands of independently owned and operated hotels around the globe, making it the world's largest hotel brand by number of rooms. In the U.S., Best Western relies on Hughes to provide secure managed broadband network connectivity to each of its hotel properties using Hughes’ Optimized VPN service. Best Western uses the service for hotel reservations and other back office applications in order to deliver the utmost in customer service.
Grocery
Safeway
One of North America's largest food retailers, Safeway relies on Hughes’ Digital Signage offering to provide live and on-demand video training to its store employees. With the solution, Safeway can ensure employees have taken required training for improved operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Smart & Final
Smart & Final is a non-membership grocery food distributor and food service supplier that provides product in bulk size quantities to customers. Smart & Final has deployed the Hughes’ High-Availability service to help increase productivity, streamline operations and deliver ultra-high-reliability for their mission-critical applications.
Oil & Gas Exploration
M/D Totco
M/D Totco, the 80-year-old instrumentation division of National Oilwell Varco, turned to Hughes when it needed to update their existing network. The Hughes broadband network receives real-time data at any given rig site, and the information can then be viewed, printed, and distributed in order to examine and adjust key processes, all with little to no oversight on M/D Totco’s part.
Utilities
American Electric Power
American Electric Power (AEP) is one of the largest power generators and distributors in the U.S., serving millions of customers throughout middle America. AEP owns the nation's largest electricity transmission system and uses Hughes' satellite technology to monitor a number of remote substations for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) communications.
Spectra Energy Corporation
One of North America’s leading providers of natural gas infrastructure, Spectra Energy has thousands of miles of pipeline to monitor to ensure efficient operation and safety. Spectra Energy uses Hughes broadband satellite technology to monitor a number of their remote pipelines for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) communications.
Financial
Springleaf Financial Services
As one of the country’s premier financial services companies, Springleaf Financial Services relies on Hughes’ Optimized VPN for reliable, fast back-office communications between its headquarters and thousands of financial branch offices.
Heartland Payment Systems
Heartland Payment Systems provides credit card, debit card, and payroll processing services to hundreds of thousands of small and midsized merchants in the U.S. and Canada, including retailers, hotels, and restaurants. Heartland relies on Hughes’ Optimized VPN service to provide secure communications to their payment processing center for customers that do not have access to cost-effective wireline broadband connectivity.
Media/Entertainment
USA Today
USA Today, the number two daily newspaper in the U.S., partnered with Hughes to digitally deliver the content for multiple newspaper editions via broadband satellite to each of their distributed printer plants throughout the U.S. Using Hughes’ Content Delivery service, USA can quickly and cost-effectively deliver the digital content for easy insertion of local advertising and content specific to the region.
National CineMedia
National CineMedia, the sales and marketing arm for the three largest theater companies in the U.S., delivers digital content to theaters throughout the U.S. via broadband satellite using Hughes’ Content Delivery service. This digital content includes pre-show advertising, and High Definition broadcasts of both live and pre-recorded special events such as concerts, sporting events, and business conferences and seminars.
Automotive
Automotive Broadcasting Network
The Automotive Broadcasting Network (ABN), a private auto retailing television network, uses Hughes’ Digital Media service to distribute video content to automotive dealerships across the U.S. Hughes takes the network management burden off ABN, enabling the company to focus on its core business.
General Motors Corp.
The world's largest automaker has to train auto technicians, sales people and staff at thousands of locations with the most up-to-date information possible. General Motors partnered with Helius—A Hughes Company, to deploy a state-of-the art corporate training solution using Helius-developed technology to provide training videos both live and on-demand.
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