SD-WAN
Transforming network performance
A Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) brings you improved security, bandwidth and productivity, together with significant cost savings. It gives you greater control and visibility over traffic, simplifies network management, and is easier to scale.
SD-WAN – secure connectivity with simplified management
Enabling your people to connect from any location with optimum performance.
By decoupling the network software from its underlying hardware, SD-WAN shifts from hardware-centric WANs to a software-based approach. This enables your people to connect to the cloud from any location without having to pass through traditional infrastructure, providing a faster, more secure network.
Perfect for geographically dispersed locations such as branch offices, data centres and remote workers, it will reduce the burden on your IT department and operations, whilst significantly enhancing the user experience for everyone.
If you are working towards converging network and cloud security in a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework, SD-WAN is a foundational element.
Setting up and configuring SD-WAN can be complex, particularly for organisations with large, distributed networks. Proper planning and expertise are required to ensure a successful deployment.
We’ll take time to understand your current usage and future projections. We’ll consider your legacy systems, anticipating any potential compatibility issues or hardware upgrades to avoid nasty surprises.
We’ll also help you choose the right vendor for the technology backbone and create a detailed deployment plan to de-risk implementation.
SD-WAN benefits and ROI
Once deployed SD-Wan can deliver numerous benefits including:
- Enhanced reliability – traffic routing MPLS, broadband, and LTE based on best availability, helping to avoid slow performance and failed connections
- Built in security – with NGFW technology and integrated security features
- Reduced connection costs – using affordable broadband internet over costly MPLS connection
- Simplified network management – enabling you to configure, monitor and troubleshoot the entire network from a single interface
- Scalability and flexibility – allowing you to add new locations without complex infrastructure changes and automatically adapting to changing working patterns
- Improved application performance – with application-aware routing
- Easier IoT and edge management – simplifying the steps needed to extend your network to IoT devices and gather data
With Ideal, you can expect:
Expert design
We’ll consider all aspects of your current and future needs before, designing a bespoke solution.
Smooth delivery
We act as an extension to your team, or work with you through installation, deployment, configuration and test.
Dependable support
We’re always on hand to answer your queries and can provide UK-based Managed Service Support going forward.
How can we help?
Book a Discovery Session
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