Login
Menu
How SD-WAN Providers Will Disrupt The Edge Router Market

How SD-WAN Providers Will Disrupt The Edge Router Market

SD-WAN Providers Will Disrupt The Edge Router Market…here is how.

The rise of SD-WAN networks is going to have some serious ramifications in the networking market. One of the biggest impacts that SD-WAN will have on the market is the disruption of edge routers – formerly essential for easy, fast access to core WAN systems, it’s highly likely that these specialized routers will be rendered obsolete by future SD-WAN technology.

Let’s take a deeper look at edge routers and the effects that SD-WAN connectivity will have on these specialized devices.

What Is An Edge Router?

Edge Routers (or, more generally, edge devices) are specialized devices which allow an entry point into a large corporate WAN – Wide Area Network, and typically is responsible for sending and receiving data from external corporate networks, as well as controlling WAN access from the internet-at-large.

These routers are the primary points at which all customer and internet connections to a corporate data center WAN are aggregated – they are absolutely crucial for connectivity to a traditionally-implemented WAN, and are usually built to have high redundancy, as a loss of connectivity at this layer essentially means a total blackout of a data center and its WAN to the internet-at-large.

Why Is SD-WAN Technology Going To Disrupt This Market?

It’s simple, really – edge routers are a necessity for traditionally-defined WANs, and when traditionally-defined WANs are overtaken by SD-WAN implementations in the near future, they will no longer be necessary.

Software-Defined WAN allows for multiple connections to be bundled into a comprehensive Wide Area Network.  This means that a single robust connection to the outside of a corporate data center is no longer necessary, and this is the primary function of an edge router – to provide a robust link from the single-line traditional WAN to outside internet connections.

In an SD-WAN system, every network link can function as a WAN, with robust encryption and security, and highly-available QoS functionality. This means that each individual SD-WAN router can essentially take the place of an edge router, serving up secured WAN connections to the internet-at-large, as well as to other corporate data centers and cloud computing centers that are connected to the WAN.

SD-WAN Vs. Edge Routers

SD-WAN has three primary advantages when compared to a traditionally implemented WAN with edge routing.

  1. Cost – The cost of an SD-WAN implementation is often 50% of the cost of a traditional WAN. This is because high-priority network traffic is automatically routed through high-QoS services, and lower priority traffic is fed through commercial broadband – allowing for large cost savings when renting privately leased communications lines.
  2. Efficiency – Since SD-WAN allows for a comprehensive WAN that includes multiple network connections, each one of these connections can be automatically utilized to their full potential, and network traffic can be rerouted to use a connection that’s being underutilized. This increases the overall efficiency of the network massively.
  3. Redundancy – If an edge router fails, all communication with the traditional WAN is lost. In addition, a loss of connectivity from your ISP can also mean total loss of communication. SD-WAN bundles multiple connections into a single secured network, allowing increased redundancy and easy accessibility even if a network provider has an emergency outage.

How can Cloudbrij help you with SD-WAN?

If you’re curious about the future of SD-WAN technology, and how it’s beating out traditional WAN systems using edge routers, talk to our team at Cloudbrij.

We can help you understand the benefits that a WAN system will have for your business, and our SD-WAN expertise will help us build the perfect, custom solution for your specific needs – whether you’re using an external corporate data center, cloud architecture, or even on-premises infrastructure.

Here are 3 great next steps for you:

  1. Visit our website for details about our services and our experience – and get in touch for a consultation today.
  2. Download our free ROI calculator
  3. Download a free SD-WAN for Dummies book.

 

How SD-WAN is transforming the healthcare industry

How SD-WAN is transforming the healthcare industry

SD-WAN is TRANSFORMING the Healthcare Industry!

The medical industry is one of the market segments that are likely to be transformed by robust, inexpensive SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) technology. The reason is simple – almost all hospitals, clinics, and urgent care facilities rely on WAN implementations to deliver reliable, safe communications with important databases of patient information and interoffice communication.

However, the medical industry often has trouble keeping up with the pace of technology due to regulatory hurdles – a 2014 report estimates that outdated WAN and networking infrastructure costs the medical industry nearly $11 billion per year.

Unreliable WANs can mean delays in patient admission, long waits for the results of critical patient diagnostic information, and difficulties coordinating with primary care physicians and other off-site clinicians. These WANs can often be brought down by sudden traffic spikes, or be compromised by an ISP undertaking maintenance or having an emergency outage.

SD-WAN Builds the Medical Networks of The Future

SD-WAN is built to address many of the issues that plague traditionally defined Wide Area Network.

SD-WAN, at its most simple definition, is a suite of routing and software technologies that allow multiple network connections to function in concert – your private rented MLPS line can combine with a T1 or fiber line, or your commercial broadband.

This smart routing capability allows high-importance traffic to be prioritized on the most powerful, high-bandwidth network connections while routing less-important web traffic to slower connections.

This “bundling” of networks doesn’t just provide increased efficiency – it promotes stability and high availability, as a sudden loss of one network isn’t catastrophic.

Instead, the smart SD-WAN router will shift network traffic from one network to another, leading to increased reliability and lower downtime, even during emergency situations. All of this leads to a WAN that is robust, reliable, and lightning-fast.

SD-WAN Can Increase Security and Medical Regulatory Compliance

Software Defined WAN can also help increase your security – the routing devices used to “bundle” and shift network traffic based on its priority and urgency also function to encrypt and secure connections that are made over public commercial broadband lines.

One of the biggest hurdles facing the medical industry when it comes to IT infrastructure upgrades is regulatory compliance.

Given the huge amount of personal, protected information contained within medical databases and cloud-based medical software, it’s more important than ever that your networks comply with all necessary governmental regulations for the protection of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other regulations like HIPAA.

The robust security settings provided by SD-WAN networks can help bring your network into the 21st century, all while sacrificing none of the privacy and security features that are required by law for medical networks.

Your SD-WAN network will be totally secured and safe from surveillance on public internet circuits, and SD-WAN providers can work with you to ensure that you abide by all necessary governmental regulations.

Want to save your organization big $$? Talk to Cloudbrij – And Learn More

If you are in the medical industry and looking to better understand the benefits and intricacies of SD-WAN implementations, get in contact with Cloudbrij today.

We’re a professional SD-WAN provider with years of experience in the field, and we pride ourselves on our ability to create perfect custom network solutions for each one of our customers.

Every single network is different. Every single industry is different. With our four-step approach, we will work with you to understand your needs, build a plan that is suitable, and then work with you to implement and support your brand-new network.

So visit our website and get in touch today. And see why the future of SD- WAN for medical Wide Area Networks is software-defined.

How can SD-WAN Save your Company Money?

How can SD-WAN Save your Company Money?

SD-WAN ROI (Return on Investment) Can be HUGE! This article explains how it can save your company money.

How can SD-WAN Save You Money?

SD-WAN (Software Defined WAN) is becoming quite the topic of discussion in the IT and tech community of late. This unique set of networking technologies uses specialized routers to bring together multiple disparate types of network connections – broadband, MPLS, and even LTE – and allow for an intelligent routing of network traffic to the connection best suited for it.

For example, an important video teleconferencing call that demands high QoS (Quality of Service) could be routed over a dedicated, privately rented MPLS line, but web traffic of a product designer doing some Google Image searches for research would be routed over a cheap broadband connection.

By doing so, SD-WAN systems can avoid costly overprovisioning, ensure that services that require maximum QoS continue uninterrupted, and still provide you with a lower overall cost compared to traditionally-defined WAN implementations. Let’s take a deeper look at the advantages of SD-WAN now.

What’s The SD-WAN Difference in SD-WAN and Traditional WAN Solutions?

Basically, SD-WAN allows you to do more – with less.

The way that traditionally-defined WAN systems allowed for good QoS was by overprovisioning – simply, you rented more bandwidth than you needed on your private lines to ensure that when you needed maximum speed, you would have it.

While this certainly does guarantee good QoS, it’s also incredibly expensive – renting an MPLS line is orders of magnitude more expensive than commercial-grade broadband systems.

This sort of overprovisioning is also wasteful – most of the time, you will either be filling up your capacity with low-priority traffic, or not using it at all. Your expensive rented lines will just sit there dormant until they’re needed – not exactly a great ROI.

SD-WAN changes everything by eliminating the need for overprovisioning. The smart software in SD-WAN implementations prioritizes– rather than overprovisioning.

This means that data center traffic, cloud application traffic, and other high-importance, mission-critical data can be sent through fast, secure private MPLS lines, while less important information can be rerouted and sent through commercial broadband lines, or even LTE. Doing so allows you to reduce the cost of your rented private lines, while still allowing for maximum QoS.

What Kind Of SD-WAN ROI Can I Expect?

SD-WAN cost savings are huge, compared to traditionally defined WAN implementations. In exceptional cases, cost-savings can be nearly 80% – though figures of 30-50% are more common. You can make up the cost of your initial investment very quickly indeed, making SD-WAN ROI quite competitive.

SD-WAN is not magic – simply implementing an SD-WAN solution won’t allow you to just ditch high-capacity MPLS or other rented lines. Software Defined WAN is simply a more efficient way of doing things – it allows you to utilize every single internet connection you have, bundle them together, and switch web traffic based on priority.

So while you may not be able to disconnect that costly private line just yet, you’ll certainly be able to reduce your overhead by ensuring you fill it to capacity at all times – and that you don’t pay for bandwidth you don’t use.

Call Cloudbrij Today – And Maximize Your SD-WAN Cost Savings

Cloudbrij is an industry leader in the implementation of SD-WAN. Our comprehensive, four-step SD-WAN installation process ensures that you get the perfect solution for you – not some one-size-fits-all implementation that’s built to line our pockets.

We analyze your needs, design a plan, implement our recommendation, and back it up with full-service support – or even managed network services, should you require them.

If you’re interested in lowering costs and maximizing ROI with Software Defined WAN, get in touch with us today at 866-MY-SDWAN, or visit our website to see more about our unique approach to SD-WAN. You can also download our FREE ROI Template today!