{"id":10485,"date":"2021-10-22T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:54:03","slug":"the-best-sd-wan-vendors-partial-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/the-best-sd-wan-vendors-partial-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best SD-WAN Vendors: Partial Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3219653\/the-3-types-of-sd-wan-architecture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SD-WAN<\/a> vendors able to install their service, at only a partial amount of your company&#8217;s sites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s locations. He also tells you how it works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But which SD-WAN vendors does Mike recommend quoting for this? Click the button and ask him today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script src=\"\/\/static.leadpages.net\/leadboxes\/current\/embed.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"\"><\/script> <button data-leadbox-popup=\"144249073f72a2:136337e37f46dc\" data-leadbox-domain=\"aerocominc.lpages.co\" style=\"background: rgb(242, 110, 34);border-color: rgb(242, 110, 34);border-radius: 20px;color: #FFFFFF;display: inline-block;vertical-align: middle;padding: 16px 32px;min-width: 192px;border: 1px solid rgb(242, 110, 34);font-size: 1rem;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;text-align: center;outline: 0;line-height: 1;cursor: pointer;-webkit-transition: background 0.3s, color 0.3s, border 0.3s;transition: background 0.3s, color 0.3s, border 0.3s; box-shadow: 0px 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);\">Ask Mike<\/button>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Best SD-WAN Vendors: Partial Sites\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xe0kqFiFp1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mikesmith.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9772\" width=\"86\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mikesmith.png 181w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mikesmith-135x200.png 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 86px) 100vw, 86px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mike<\/strong><br>Mike Smith is the Founder and President of AeroCom and has been helping companies with telecom and cloud services since 1999. He&nbsp;has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards and in 2011, he was honored as one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mydigitalpublication.com\/publication\/index.php?i=68145&amp;m=&amp;l=&amp;p=53&amp;pre=&amp;ver=swf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">top 40<\/a>&nbsp;business people in Orange County, CA., under 40 years old. You can also hear him as the host of the popular Information Technology podcast,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0ZpSFhVSh72uKoHPLZrUsF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ITsmiths with Mike Smith<\/a>. Follow Mike&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikesmithaerocom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSmithsBrain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/people\/mike-aerocominccom?source=navbar-subnav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpiceWorks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your company has dozens of sites and you&#8217;re looking into SD-WAN. Maybe you&#8217;re coming off of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/is-sd-wan-better-than-mpls-price-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MPLS network<\/a> that&#8217;s overpriced and outdated, or maybe you just want to add SD-WAN for Cloud PBX or video applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, you&#8217;re wondering, &#8220;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?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, my answer to that is, &#8220;no&#8221;, for the most part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>SD-WAN Architecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re talking about an on-prem only solution (as you might have heard me reference in the video I did on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xKuweiCMeb4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the three types of SD-WAN architecture<\/a>)\u2026 if you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get it at most of your sites or some of your sites or a few of your sites. It really doesn&#8217;t matter. It just depends on your needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Example<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for instance, a lot of companies will say, &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, SD-WAN, great fit. We have three different internet connections they can use. Great fit for that site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd then we have this site with a bad internet connection. We&#8217;ve got this one site, there&#8217;s only one internet provider available and they&#8217;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&#8217;s a great fit at that location, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>But what about that tiny site?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But, maybe you have another location that only has like five people. They have fantastic internet there. And there really isn&#8217;t a whole lot of need for SD-WAN. They&#8217;re really small. They have great internet already. There isn&#8217;t a whole lot of need for uptime cause everybody has cell phones at that site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that site can actually <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CuxyZiSCSfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VPN<\/a> into the SD-WAN providers network. So you don&#8217;t have to have an SD-WAN appliance at that site. They can actually VPN into your SD-WAN network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you do not have to have SD-WAN at every single site. And in a lot of cases, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, it&#8217;s really up to you, but I just want you to know it&#8217;s not a necessity. And I wanted to answer that question for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Which SD-WAN vendors should we quote?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you want to know which SD-WAN vendors are the best fit for your company&#8217;s specific needs, don&#8217;t Google it, just contact me, <a href=\"mailto:AskMike@aerocominc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">via email<\/a> or phone (714.593.0011). I&#8217;m a broker for all the major SD-WAN service providers and I know them inside and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"The Best SD-WAN Vendors - Partial Sites\" class=\"wp-image-10487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Best-SD-WAN-Vendors-Partial-Sites-t2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing this for a long time\u2026 nearly 20 years. So if you call me, I&#8217;ll ask you a few questions and I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t have to pay us anything. There&#8217;s no reason not to reach out and ask me my opinion on this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I hope this video was helpful. If so please click the &#8220;like&#8221; button down below and I&#8217;ll catch you on the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the best SD-WAN vendors able to install their service, at only a partial amount of your company&#8217;s sites? 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