SD-WAN Pricing

SD-WAN. It’s definitely a thing you should know about. You know this… but how much does it cost?

In this video, AeroCom President, Mike Smith, talks about how SD-WAN pricing can be affected by the type of architecture you choose. He also gives an example of the type of SD-WAN pricing you will want to search for, if your company has several large Internet circuits.

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About Mike
Mike Smith is the Founder and President of AeroCom and has been helping companies with telecom and cloud services since 1999. He has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards and in 2011, he was honored as one of the top 40 business people in Orange County, CA., under 40 years old. Follow Mike on LinkedIn, Twitter or SpiceWorks.

Transcript:

So you’ve heard about this SD-WAN thing. Well, how much does it cost?

My answer to that is it depends on the type of architecture of the SD-WAN solution you’re looking at.

So for instance, if you’re looking at an on-prem-only SD-WAN solution, some of those solutions you purchase outright, (you buy as a one-time purchase)… and you might have an ongoing maintenance agreement with a consulting company or something that’s going to help you maintain the hardware, but for the most part you’re just buying that hardware as a one-time fee and you’re deploying it onsite at every one of your locations. That’s one way.

Another way is you might pay a service provider a monthly fee based on the type of service that you have. So for instance, if you have SD-WAN deployed at every single site, they’re going to charge you for each appliance at every site on a monthly basis. And then on top of that, sometimes, if the service provider is deploying a cloud-enabled solution (where they’re doing some type of cloud optimization for your SD-WAN), they might be charging you a price based on bandwidth. So how much bandwidth your company needs determines your monthly price for each SD-WAN device.

Some providers also say, “how much bandwidth are you going to use total, all sites combined.”

And then some service providers, even the cloud-enabled ones, charge you for the amount of circuits that your company is plugging into the SD-WAN service on a monthly basis. So each site, say each site has two circuits, they’re going to charge you a monthly price for the primary circuit and then a monthly price for the backup circuit, but then you’re going to get a lot of bandwidth included with that price.

So, the point is, SD-WAN can be priced-out a lot of different ways. It depends on how you’re deploying it and depends on what type of pricing best fits your company.

So, if you have a ton of bandwidth at every site and you’re using all that bandwidth, maybe you don’t want to find a provider who’s going to price you on a monthly basis for the amount of bandwidth you’re using. Maybe you want to find a provider who prices you per circuit.

So, I hope that helps a little bit, but I’m sure you have a lot more questions. Feel free to reach out on email or give me a call. I’m happy to answer any questions you have on any of this stuff. 877-465-3505. [email protected]

I hope you have a great day!