I was dead set against SD-WAN until we hit 45 remote sites

For years I told everyone SD-WAN was just marketing hype... we had MPLS and it worked fine. Then our company acquired a firm in Austin with 12 locations and the MPLS quotes came back at $8,000 a month just for those sites. Our network guy pushed hard on a Cisco SD-WAN trial and I finally gave in after 6 months of arguing. After 3 weeks running it alongside our existing setup, the failover time dropped from 4 minutes to under 10 seconds. We cut our monthly ISP costs by nearly $3,500 across all sites. Has anyone else seen big savings after switching from traditional WAN setups?

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park.tara2d ago

Oh wow, nobody's mentioned how SD-WAN handles cloud app traffic differently than MPLS does.

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linda3052d ago

Three years of MPLS and I actually see it the other way - SD-WAN's direct internet breakout just gets messy without the right security stack in place.