SD-WAN

SD-WAN OVERVIEW

SD-WAN is fundamentally about efficiency. It comes down to giving the people who work for you the tools they need to compete and win on a global stage – the ultimate responsibility of upper management. It touches your customers too – in a situation where network capacity becomes limited for whatever reason, SD-WAN gives you the power to prioritize bandwidth, ensuring that the applications most critical to customer experience don’t skip a beat.

WHAT IS SD-WAN?

Software-Defined - Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a combination of technologies designed to offer a simpler approach to the WAN. It’s being driven largely by the decreasing cost of bandwidth and the increase in cloud applications that reside outside of the legacy data center. SD-WAN can be deployed over existing WAN connections, whether they are Internet (DIA, broadband, LTE) or private (MPLS, private line), in order to create a secure, private, fully meshed network. It offers simplified management, quicker turnup, better application performance, improved resiliency, and cost savings when compared to traditional approaches. TOP SD-WAN PROVIDERS AVANT has curated a portfolio of SD-WAN providers that include all of the market-leading providers as well as being the only master agent to have a relationship with CloudGenix and Talari

WHY CONSIDER IT?

• Cost savings vs. expensive private networks
• Decreasing the cost of Internet bandwidth
• Improved performance for cloud applications
• Increased resiliency and uptime across the entire network
• Simplified network management, especially at branch sites
• Drastically shorter time to deploy new locations

IS SD-WAN RIGHT FOR YOU?

SD-WAN is an evolutionary approach to the WAN that offers simplified management, quick turn-up, better application performance, improved resiliency, and cost savings when compared to traditional approaches. It can replace or work with MPLS, and is delivered directly, via carriers, or via MSPs.

• Describe your current network setup and what you would like to see in the future.
• What are your key applications? How do you ensure the performance of these applications?

Are you looking to…

• Improve application performance, particularly for cloud apps?
• Increase bandwidth at remote or international sites?
• Replace an expensive private network?
• Simplify or outsource the management of your network?
• Build resiliency into your network to guarantee uptime?
• Decrease turn-up time for new sites?