SD-WAN & SASE Solutions Pricing Comparison: 3 Types

Your company is in the market for an SD-WAN or SASE solution, and maybe you’ve even gotten a quote. Your company is wondering, “are all SD-WAN or SASE solutions priced similarly?”

In this video, I compare 3 types of pricing options for SD-WAN & SASE Solutions.

Want my recommendations on the best SD-WAN & SASE solutions that your company should quote? Ask me today.

About Me

Mike Smith has been helping companies select the best telecom, WAN, security, and cloud services since 1999. He founded AeroCom in 2003, and has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards, including being recognized as one of the top 40 business people in tech-heavy Orange County, CA. Follow Mike on YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit and SpiceWorks.

Transcript

Your company is in the market for an SD, Wan solution or SASE solution. And maybe you’ve even gotten a quote. And one of the things you’re wondering is, are all of these SD, Wan or SASE solutions? Are they all about the same? Is it worth getting multiple quotes or are they all kind of on the same price? Well, my name is Mike Smith. I’m the president. So come, let’s put our heads together on this.

My Recommendations

But first, if you’d like my recommendation on the best SD, Wan or SASE solutions your company should be quoting. Reach out, send me an email or give me a call (714.593.0011). Join the thousands of other i.t professionals who have used me to help them make a lot better decision and a fraction of the time, and I don’t charge your company a dime. So no excuse not to at least reach out. I’ve been on a broker for only the major CAC and SD-WAN solutions. I know the industry inside and out. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years. That’s why I have the gray hairs. And based on your company’s requirements, I can tell you which ones you should be copying and which ones you shouldn’t. I’m. You did the best people at those vendors, and I will get you better pricing on those companies than you ever be able to get on your own. So send me an email. Give me a call. I’d love to talk about it that if you do these videos, I’d love to help you. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss any of my weekly videos that I put out and hit the little bell button so you get alerted when a video comes out. And go check out our website AeroCominc.com it’s pretty cool. I bet you haven’t seen a website like it. You can compare pictures right? There’s all kinds of cool stuff.

SD-WAN & SASE are not priced the same

All right, well, let me answer the first question right out of the gate. No, all SD-WAN and SASE solutions are not priced the same. They are priced differently. In fact, There are three types of pricing offered by SASE and SD-WAN solutions.

3 Types of pricing comparisons: Bandwidth & Circuits

The number one, the most common type of pricing is pricing by bandwidth. That means that depending on the amount of bandwidth that you have for your internet connectivity, Azure site, that’s going to dictate the pricing. So, for instance, if you have a gigabit dia sort is your primary connection and a 500 Meg business class cable connection is your backup. You go, oh, we have all this bandwidth. What does it cost? Well, the service provider is going to ask you how much bandwidth are you actually using for throughput on the network. And maybe you say, well, we never use more than 200, Meg. And actually we have these big connections, but we actually never use really more than 200. Well, that’s going to be what they price it out as 200 Meg. But a lot of vendors are going to cap with 200 Meg. When they price it that way. So point is they charge for bandwidth. They charge by bandwidth at every single site So every single site they’re going to know you need to know how much bandwidth have. And they’re going to determine that’ll determine the price for that site.

A second way that some SD-Wan and SASE solutions price is being number of internet sites. So if you have one in an internet circuit it’s one price. If you have a second it adds a little. A third adds a little bit more. So they price the number of internet circuits at each site. So each site’s going to get a different price depending on the number of circuits.

3 Types of pricing comparisons: Users

And lastly some SD-WAN and SASE solutions out there charge by the number of users your company was. I was so large sites are more expensive than small sites. It’s depending on how many users are going to be using that solution at each site. So that’s a pretty cool way of pricing it out if you have, especially if you have high bandwidth in each of the sites, but low amounts of users, that might be a good one to use. And when it comes to pricing, in addition to the three types of pricing, there’s also some add ons. a big popular add on is SASE. So what that is, that is a cloud based security solution. It’s like a next gen firewall included with your SD-WAN solution. Like including things like intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, content filtering. So that would be a SASE solution that costs, that adds additional cost to your rusty wan solution. Another thing that might add a little bit of cost when it comes to security is casb. So that’s application based security. Securing all of your cloud based applications. So that’s something that when providers some of them can add on there that adds additional cost.

And lastly high availability is a very popular add on if you want to have two appliances at every site, maybe an active passive or an active active, you can set that up. That’s called high availability and that adds some additional price. So those are additional pricing add ons. But those bring a lot of value. So something you might want to consider when it comes to pricing out SD-Wan.

What are the best SD-WAN/SASE vendors that your company should quote?

All right. Again, if you’d like my recommendation on the best SD-Wan and SASE solutions your company should be quoting, reach out, send me an email or give me a call (714.593.0011). Join the thousands of other I.T professionals who have used me to help them make a lot better decision. In a fraction of the time. I’ll introduce you to the best vendors your company should be quoting based on your company’s requirements and you know like hey, if you have a lot of bandwidth, like all the stuff we talked about today, I’ll narrow it down.

I’ll make sure you get hooked up with providers that have a great reputation for service, quality customer service. The pricing is right and I will get you much better pricing on those on those vendors than you’d ever be able to get on your own. So don’t hesitate. Send me an email. Give me a call. I will also introduce you to the best people to work with those vendors, and I won’t charge you anything for using me to help consult you. The service providers pay me my broker fee, so no excuse not to at least reach out and give me a call and see what I have to say. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years. I know the industry inside and out, and I can definitely help you make a lot better decision in a fraction of the time, so give me a try. That’s why I do these videos. I love to talk to you about this stuff.