Sarenet, a company specializing in voice, data transmission, and hosting services for businesses, is strengthening its role as a comprehensive technology provider for the retail sector, building on the momentum of its recently inaugurated data center at the Derio communications hub. Its offering brings together connectivity, networking, cybersecurity, communications, cloud services, and infrastructure management under a single proposal.
Retail is going through a digital transformation in which technology tools play a key role in keeping businesses running, optimizing their processes, and delivering the shopping experience customers expect.
The rollout of new technologies in stores has increased their reliance on a range of connected devices and platforms. These include point-of-sale terminals (POS), payment systems, management software, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, video surveillance cameras, and communication tools.
Against that backdrop, making sure all these systems work correctly, stay protected, and can operate in a coordinated way calls for reliable technology infrastructure, as well as a provider able to offer a joined-up response to the sector’s different needs.
Much more than connectivity: a single tech partner for retail
Sarenet approaches retail projects with a global, customized, and managed response, rather than separate solutions for each technology need. The company has a service catalog that covers the different layers of an organization’s technology infrastructure:
- Private networks and multi-technology, multi-carrier connectivity to link stores, logistics centers, and corporate offices.
- Cybersecurity solutions to protect networks, systems, and connected devices.
- Cloud services and hosting for business infrastructure and applications.
- Voice communications and IP telephony.
- Specialized monitoring, management, and support for the infrastructure.
This comprehensive approach lets retail chains simplify the management of their technology providers, gain visibility over their infrastructure, and have a specialized point of contact who understands the particulars of their business.
Sarenet also adapts its projects to the operating realities of retail, where opening hours, geographic spread, and the need to avoid disruption at stores shape both the design and the rollout of its solutions.
Technology built to keep pace with retail’s evolution
Retail’s transformation will keep driving the adoption of new devices, applications, and digital services at points of sale. That calls for infrastructure able to evolve, integrate different technologies, and respond to new needs without compromising operational continuity.
Sarenet aims to support businesses through this process, bringing experience, technical know-how, and the ability to design tailored solutions that combine connectivity, communications, cloud, and cybersecurity. The goal is for retail companies to focus on their business, with the peace of mind of having a tech partner capable of managing and protecting the infrastructure that makes it possible.
The Flamen&Co case: technology in service of business continuity
One example of this capability is the project Sarenet carried out for Flamen&Co, an Aragonese business group specializing in impulse, convenience, and food retail that includes brands such as Frutos Secos El Rincón and Martín Martín.
With more than 150 stores across Spain and a workforce of nearly 1,000 employees, Flamen&Co needed to overhaul its communications infrastructure to improve the stability, availability, and security of a network supporting a geographically distributed business.
The challenge was to have a uniform, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that kept its stores, regional offices, and headquarters connected while minimizing the impact of any incident on day-to-day operations. To meet those needs, Sarenet designed and rolled out a comprehensive solution combining advanced connectivity through a private MPLS network with fiber links, communications redundancy with 4G backup connections, managed cybersecurity with next-generation firewalls, and centralized monitoring that simplifies managing and overseeing the whole network. It also added IP telephony, integrating Sarevoz to unify and simplify the group’s communications. The project was completed in under three months, giving Flamen&Co infrastructure sized to its scale and ready to support its growth.
Another example that showcases Sarenet‘s experience in this area is the solution developed for Grupo Uvesco: a network transformation project for more than 360 points of sale with a comprehensive solution covering more than 2,880 connected devices and a segmented, secured infrastructure. Also worth noting is the one rolled out at Workcenter, integrating MPLS connectivity, 4G backup, cloud, cybersecurity, and IP telephony for 18 centers.
Frequently asked questions
What services does Sarenet offer retail chains?
Connectivity and networking, cybersecurity, cloud services and hosting, voice communications and IP telephony, and infrastructure monitoring and support, delivered as a single managed proposal.
What did Sarenet do for Flamen&Co?
It rolled out a private MPLS network with fiber links, 4G backup connectivity, managed cybersecurity with next-generation firewalls, centralized monitoring, and Sarevoz IP telephony across the group’s more than 150 stores, completed in under three months.
How many stores does Flamen&Co have?
More than 150 stores across Spain, with a workforce of close to 1,000 employees.
What other retail projects has Sarenet carried out?
A network transformation for Grupo Uvesco covering more than 360 points of sale and over 2,880 connected devices, and a connectivity, cloud, cybersecurity, and IP telephony rollout for 18 Workcenter centers.
This article is also available in Spanish: “Sarenet se consolida como socio tecnológico global del sector retail con soluciones integrales para cadenas de establecimientos,” on revistacloud.com.
