SD-WAN & SASE

SD-WAN puts software in charge of decisions your carrier used to make for you. It watches every connection and routes each application over the best available path, packet by packet — voice on the clean circuit, backups on the cheap one, instant failover when anything blinks. The CFO’s video call no longer competes with a file sync.

It exists because two things changed: bandwidth got cheap, and your applications left the data center. Backhauling branch traffic across MPLS to reach apps that live on the internet is paying a premium to take the long way.

SD-WAN overlays whatever circuits you already have — broadband, DIA, LTE, MPLS — into one secure, fully meshed, centrally managed network. New sites turn up in days instead of carrier quarters; MPLS stays where it earns its cost and goes where it doesn’t.

SASE extends the same idea to security: firewall, web filtering, and zero-trust access delivered from the cloud edge, instead of a stack of appliances aging in every branch office. If your users are everywhere, their security perimeter should be too.

• Cost — broadband plus SD-WAN typically undercuts an all-MPLS network by a wide margin
• Cloud performance — apps take the short path to the internet instead of the long way through a data center
• Resiliency — instant failover across circuits — an outage becomes a blip
• Simplified management — one console for every site, especially the branches
• Speed to deploy — new locations turn up in days on whatever circuit is available

• What does your network look like today — and what should it look like in two years?
• What are your key applications? How do you ensure the performance of these applications?
• Do you want to improve application performance, particularly for cloud apps?
• Do you need to increase bandwidth at remote or international sites?
• Could you replace an expensive private network?
• Would you like to simplify or outsource the management of your network?
• How do you build resiliency into your network to guarantee uptime?
• Could you decrease turn-up time for new sites?