SD-WAN

Improve Your Network Management With SD-WAN

SD-WAN is a software-defined approach to managing the Wide Area Network (WAN). That means you can oversee and manage your entire network from a centralized system.

Simplify operations with automation and cloud-based management.
Improve network performance with transport independence across MPLS, 4G LTE and Broadband.
Consolidate hardware and management platforms for reduced operational costs.
Improve business application performance and increase agility.
Optimize the user experience and efficiency for cloud applications.

Why Organizations Need SD-WAN

The traditional WAN function involved connecting users at a branch or campus to applications hosted on servers in a data center. Typically, dedicated MPLS circuits would help ensure security and reliable connectivity. This no longer works in a cloud-centric world.

Today’s IT Challenges Call for SD-WAN

Times have changed. As connectivity needs expand, with businesses increasingly using SaaS/IaaS applications in multiple cloud environments, the user experience often suffers. That’s because WANs have typically not been designed for the unprecedented explosion of network traffic that cloud adoption drives. This traffic can cause application performance unpredictability and data vulnerability, and requires complex management.

Increased connectivity also exposes organizations to significant cybersecurity threats and compliance issues. For example, organizations have to provide network access to a workforce full of diverse roles, ranging from employees to partners to guests. Ultimately, IT teams need to find a balance between creating a great user experience and ongoing security management.

SD-WAN Provides a New Model for Modern Connectivity

New business models drive the need for a new network model. SD-WAN takes a new approach to network connectivity by enabling cloud-based management that lowers operational costs and improves resource usage for multi-site deployments.

With SD-WAN, system administrators can use bandwidth more efficiently and help ensure critical application performance without sacrificing security or data privacy.

Today’s IT Challenges Call for SD-WAN

With SD-WAN, IT teams can:

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Simplify Management

SD-WAN is a centralized, cloud-delivered WAN architecture that facilitates scalability across thousands of endpoints. It can automate zero-touch global deployment via a single management interface.

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Increase Security

With SD-WAN, organizations can gain more visibility and control over their networks. They can also leverage certain protections that SD-WAN enables, like distributed security at the branch level, rather than requiring data to travel back to an organization’s headquarters or primary data center for advanced security protection.

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Improve the User Experience

SD-WAN helps optimize cloud application performance, including for multi-cloud setups. It can even intelligently route traffic to prioritize mission-critical functions and avoid slowdowns.

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Reduce Costs

Organizations can reduce operational expenses with SD-WAN, such as by offloading expensive MPLS services and using more economical and flexible broadband—including multiple secure VPN connections—instead.

Choosing the Right SD-WAN Solution

Organizations can choose different types of SD-WAN solutions, depending on their needs. For example, Cisco provides two leading solutions for SD-WAN:

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

This solution is ideal for lean IT environments that value full stack management of WAN, LAN and overall security. Meraki SD-WAN also provides simple management, orchestration and automation, particularly for organizations with predominantly Meraki IT architecture.

Learn more about Cisco Meraki SD-WAN:

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Cisco Viptela SD-WAN

This solution is ideal for enterprises with sophisticated environments needing customization and advanced routing, secure isolation of enterprise assets using segmentation, or optimized connectivity to multi-cloud or SaaS applications.

Learn more about Cisco Viptela SD-WAN:

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See How SD-WAN Can Help Your Organization

With Hydrasat, a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, you can gain the support you need to find the right SD-WAN solution to optimize your network.

Get in touch with our team to discover the power of SD-WAN.

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