Heard a sales engineer talk about SD-WAN differently and it clicked for me

I was on a call last week with a guy from a regional provider out of Tulsa. He was pushing SD-WAN but not in that typical 'it fixes everything' way. He straight up said for most of their mid-market clients, the real win is just simplifying the routing and getting rid of the expensive MPLS contracts. He quoted a specific example where a client cut their monthly bill from $4,200 to $1,800 after switching off a legacy frame relay setup. That got me thinking about our own setup at my company. We've been paying a premium for a dedicated circuit to a data center we barely use anymore. I was always against SD-WAN because I figured it was just another layer of complexity. But hearing him put it in terms of actual dollar savings and not just buzzwords made me reconsider. Has anyone else seen a real cost drop after moving away from traditional private links?

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the_logan21d ago

Probably smooth as long as you're okay with your IT guy staring at blinking lights for a few hours.

barbaraschmidt22d ago

Ask him what the migration process looked like. Was it a pain to cut over or pretty smooth?