The Best SD-WAN Vendors: Partial Sites

Are the best SD-WAN vendors able to install their service, at only a partial amount of your company’s sites?

In the video below, Mike Smith explains which types of SD-WAN architecture is able to work, when only installed at a partial amount of your organization’s locations. He also tells you how it works!

But which SD-WAN vendors does Mike recommend quoting for this? Click the button and ask him today.

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. You can also hear him as the host of the popular Information Technology podcast, ITsmiths with Mike Smith. Follow Mike on LinkedIn, Twitter or SpiceWorks.

Transcript

Your company has dozens of sites and you’re looking into SD-WAN. Maybe you’re coming off of an MPLS network that’s overpriced and outdated, or maybe you just want to add SD-WAN for Cloud PBX or video applications.

But, you’re wondering, “If we go with SD-WAN, do we have to (or should we), get it at every single site? Is that a necessity with SD-WAN?”

Well, my answer to that is, “no”, for the most part.

SD-WAN Architecture

Now, if you’re talking about an on-prem only solution (as you might have heard me reference in the video I did on the three types of SD-WAN architecture)… if you’re an on-prem only solution, you might have to get it at most of your sites or all of your sites, but with cloud-enabled SD-WAN solutions, you do not have to get it at every single site.

You can get it at most of your sites or some of your sites or a few of your sites. It really doesn’t matter. It just depends on your needs.

Example

So, for instance, a lot of companies will say, “Hey, our large locations need SD-WAN because we have a lot of people there and we want to make sure that they have great call quality at all times. We want to have a lot of redundancy there. We want to have a lot of assurances there for redundancy and call quality.”

“So yeah, SD-WAN, great fit. We have three different internet connections they can use. Great fit for that site.”

“And then we have this site with a bad internet connection. We’ve got this one site, there’s only one internet provider available and they’re kind of shaky and we want SD-WAN there to really improve the packet loss and jitter from the internet connection we have at that site. So maybe SD-WAN’s a great fit at that location, too.”

But what about that tiny site?

But, maybe you have another location that only has like five people. They have fantastic internet there. And there really isn’t a whole lot of need for SD-WAN. They’re really small. They have great internet already. There isn’t a whole lot of need for uptime cause everybody has cell phones at that site.

Well, that site can actually VPN into the SD-WAN providers network. So you don’t have to have an SD-WAN appliance at that site. They can actually VPN into your SD-WAN network.

So, you do not have to have SD-WAN at every single site. And in a lot of cases, it’s just not necessary. Although there are some companies who have SD-WAN at every single site, even though they have hundreds of sites, because they have a reason for that, maybe you have Cloud PBX deployed at every single site and just want that visibility.

So, it’s really up to you, but I just want you to know it’s not a necessity. And I wanted to answer that question for you.

Which SD-WAN vendors should we quote?

So, if you want to know which SD-WAN vendors are the best fit for your company’s specific needs, don’t Google it, just contact me, via email or phone (714.593.0011). I’m a broker for all the major SD-WAN service providers and I know them inside and out.

I’ve been doing this for a long time… nearly 20 years. So if you call me, I’ll ask you a few questions and I’ll pair you up with a good three or four vendors, get you demos with those vendors, get you quotes, explain why I think they might be the best fit and it’ll save you a ton of time. And the best thing is those service providers pay our company our broker fee. So your company doesn’t have to pay us anything. There’s no reason not to reach out and ask me my opinion on this stuff.

So, I hope this video was helpful. If so please click the “like” button down below and I’ll catch you on the next one.