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How Can SD-WAN Benefit Your Company?

Many companies are benefiting from SD-WAN. It is a hot topic in the IT networking industry. There’s a lot of buzz around the innovative technological solutions that allow SD-WAN to provide great WAN performance. This is often at a fraction of the cost of traditionally-defined WAN networks – and that’s not always a good thing.

The true benefits of SD-WAN implementations can easily get lost in the nonstop marketing buzz that surrounds the industry. So we’re here to show you the four simple ways that SD-WAN can benefit your company. No hyperbole. No marketing mumbo-jumbo – just the facts.

Lower Costs

SD-WAN implementations can be anywhere from 30-80% cheaper than a traditional WAN that relies exclusively on high-bandwidth, overprovisioned MPLS rented lines, or other high QoS (Quality of Service) private lines.

This is because SD-WAN routers allow web traffic to be rerouted intelligently to the appropriate network service – instead of routing loads of low-priority traffic through an expensive MPLS line, choking out mission-critical information, SD-WAN will automatically switch lower priority traffic to commercial broadband, instead of expensive rented lines.

This leads to much lower costs – instead of costly overprovisioned MPLS lines, your company can rely on a much smaller rented line that’s dedicated solely to high-QoS traffic – your corporate broadband will take care of less important data transfers automatically.

Increased Efficiency

The same automatic traffic switching systems that lower costs also increase the efficiency of your WAN – instead of each individual internet connection functioning separately, SD-WAN brings them all together to work as an integrated whole.

By doing so, efficiency is increased – high priority data uses QoS private lines, medium-priority uses fiber, low-priority uses commercial broadband, and so on. This smarter, automatic distribution of traffic allows each network connection to operate at peak efficiency and prevents any one data connection from getting bogged down with huge data transfers.

Higher Uptime

SD-WAN allows you to combine network connections from multiple service providers. This can also help increase network uptime. If a network line goes down due to maintenance or an emergency outage, SD-WAN software routers can switch traffic to other network lines that are still up and running. This leads to a highly-available networking experience with much higher uptime than traditional networks.

Cloud-Ready Architecture

WAN implementations can often be a huge reason that companies are still relying on outdated, on-premises infrastructure and servers. A good cloud solution must include a robust WAN system, or else you risk losing mission-critical data on public commercial broadband lines. However, the high-cost of WAN has been a barrier to entry for smaller companies who are looking to switch to cloud computing.

One of the best benefits of software-defined WAN is that the lower cost of entry allows smaller companies to afford smaller, dedicated rented lines that can be used solely for their cloud infrastructure at half the cost of traditionally defined WAN implementations.

So if your company is looking to switch to the cloud, but wary of high-cost WAN implementations, an SD-WAN network could be a perfect choice.

3 Reasons businesses deploy SD-WAN solutions

The SD-WAN market is growing exponentially. It is slated to become one of the most valuable network infrastructure sectors by 2020! Despite this growth, there are still some skeptics out there who don’t believe in the benefits that SD-WAN technology offers.

We have put together 3 reasons to deploy this technology.

SD-WAN Helps Lower Costs

SD-WAN is much cheaper than a traditionally-defined WAN architecture using dedicated, rented MPLS or other high QoS (Quality of Service) lines. This doesn’t mean that SD-WAN technology can eliminate the need for rented lines – this isn’t some magical technology that can make commercial broadband 100% reliable.

Rather, SD-WAN offers a way to ensure that you never waste any money overprovisioning costly, dedicated private lines. Overprovisioning used to be the best way to ensure that your high QoS lines would always operate at peak capacity. And the logic there indeed sounds – if you rent more bandwidth than you ever use, you’ll never run out.

However, this is extremely costly, and one of the reasons some companies don’t use private lines at all in their WAN setups, opting for VPNS and other commercial broadband technologies.

SD-WAN combines the best of both worlds here – allowing you to rent much smaller QoS lines, and using them exclusively for the technologies that demand superb data speeds and reliability – cloud computing access, video conferencing, application deployment, and so on.

Lower priority web traffic is routed through traditional commercial broadband – or even LTE networks, allowing your private lines to work at maximum efficiency, and decreasing overhead by reducing the total bandwidth you need.

SD-WAN helps improve Network Performance

This same traffic prioritization technology allows all of your networks to perform at top efficiency. Your commercial broadband won’t get bogged down by high-bandwidth cloud infrastructure access, and you won’t use up valuable MPLS bandwidth on simple web browsing and file downloads.

SD-WAN architecture bundles together each individual internet connection you have and allows for peak efficiency by rerouting all of your traffic through the appropriate connection.

Simply, this allows for better reliability, faster data transmission, and a highly-available internet service that will never drop high-priority, mission-critical traffic.

SD-WAN is Built For The Cloud

As more businesses move to the cloud, those that still rely on outdated on-premises infrastructure risk missing the boat. There are many challenges facing companies who are considering switching to a cloud-based architecture, and one of the largest issues in the past was the implementation of a robust WAN – steady, high QoS connections are absolutely necessary for IaaS and SaaS cloud architecture to work efficiently.

However, the high cost of renting private lines often prevents these sorts of companies from implementing cloud solutions. But this technology is built for the cloud and offers a way to implement a WAN that’s easily as effective as traditionally-defined WAN – at half the cost.

Because SD-WAN allows for an inexpensive, yet highly reliable QoS experience, SD-WAN implementations are a fantastic way for smaller businesses who used to be priced out of WAN networks to enter the wide world of cloud computing and increase the agility and scalability of their businesses.

Trust Cloudbrij To Help You With Your SD-WAN Deployment

Cloudbrij is an industry leader in the world of SD-WAN architecture. Our simple four-step process ensures that you are set up with a perfect, customized networking solution that can help your business save money, maximize ROI, and ease transitions into the cloud…along with our amazing team of professionals.

To learn more about our unique business model, services, and experience, visit us at our website – and get in touch today to see what makes Cloudbrij exceptional.