Jack in the Box restaurant. Photo: Jack in the Box.

Quick service restaurant Jack in the Box and its Qdoba Mexican Grill subsidiary have selected Hughes Network Systems to upgrade their nationwide network to deliver faster performance, enable new cloud-based applications and provide a better customer experience.

Hughes will build, manage and support Jack in the Box’s new Next-Generation Network (NGN) with HughesOn, its suite of cloud-friendly managed network solutions designed for highly distributed enterprises like restaurants, retailers and financial institutions. Hughes will provide fully managed, high-speed primary and backup networks connecting approximately 3,000 restaurants across North America. Hughes is also providing managed network support for guest and employee Wi-Fi.

According to Hughes, customers and employees will be able to enjoy faster internet speeds, faster transaction times, and faster web page loading times. Customers can access the internet and future cloud-based applications over their mobile devices using the Hughes-supplied in-store Wi-Fi network. Hughes Wi-Fi can support restaurants during peak busy hours without performance degradation of mission-critical traffic, the company stated.

To ensure network uptime and maximum performance, Jack in the Box is deploying the Hughes High-Availability Network solution, which provides dual-broadband connections into each restaurant. Each location will have either a 4G or satellite link backing up the primary landline connection in the event of an outage.

Hughes has installed the HughesOn solution in approximately 3,000 restaurants to date, according to the company.