SD-WAN
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The challenge
Your organization faces a connectivity crisis as users and applications become increasingly distributed. Legacy networks struggle to support modern workloads, leading to high bandwidth costs, complex management, poor cloud application performance, and fragmented security. Without SD-WAN, you risk operational blindness, a fragmented security posture, and a competitive disadvantage due to slow service provisioning and network inflexibility. The wide area network is the fundamental infrastructure and any failure affects every department, customer, and transaction.
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94%
reduction in unplanned downtime with SD-WAN failover
33%
more efficient WAN management through centralized orchestration
$3M
average cost of a data breach, mitigated by integrated security
The solution
SD-WAN addresses your unique challenges through modern solutions and key capabilities.
Application-aware routing
Identifies applications on the first packet and steers them based on performance policies, ensuring critical applications receive priority treatment.
Link bonding and load balancing
Aggregates multiple diverse links (MPLS, LTE, Fiber) to increase available bandwidth and ensure redundancy, providing a more reliable connection.
Centralized management
Offers a single dashboard for configuration, monitoring, and policy enforcement across the entire global network, simplifying network management.
Zero-touch provisioning (ZTP)
Automates the device onboarding process, allowing non-technical staff to deploy hardware, reducing deployment time and costs.
Integrated SASE architecture
Provides a unified software stack that integrates SD-WAN with ZTNA, FWaaS, and SWG, offering comprehensive security and simplified management.
Aiops and predictive management
Uses machine learning to establish performance baselines and proactively resolve issues before they impact users, improving network reliability and performance.
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How to evaluate SD-WAN
1
Deployment model
Determine whether a cloud-based, on-premise, or hybrid deployment model best aligns with your organization's needs and compliance requirements.
2
Integration with existing tech stack
Ensure the SD-WAN solution integrates seamlessly with existing firewalls, identity providers, and cloud on-ramps to avoid a complete rip and replace of existing infrastructure.
3
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
Account for hardware costs, professional services for implementation, and ongoing management burden beyond just the license fee to accurately assess the TCO.
4
Vendor stability and roadmap
Evaluate the vendor's long-term viability by assessing their investment in AIOps and SASE integration, and determine whether they are a predator or prey in the market.
Questions to ask suppliers
Use these questions during supplier evaluations to ensure you're choosing the right partner for your needs.
SD-WAN RFP guide- How does your platform handle underlay ISP disputes?
- What specific AIOps capabilities are active today for closed-loop remediation?
- Can your solution identify and steer traffic for SaaS applications that are not book-ended by your hardware?
- Is your security stack natively integrated into a single operating system, or is it a service-chained collection of virtual appliances that require separate management consoles?