How can SDWAN benefit your company?

Managing the ever-increasing flow of data being transferred between a company’s headquarters, branch offices, data centers, and the cloud applications or infrastructure is a major of paramount concern for IT managers. Many are implementing a Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SDWAN) as a cost-effective, and flexible alternative to traditional WAN solutions to improve the performance of applications both on-premises and in the cloud. Prospective customers often ask me to explain the overall benefits of adding switching to SDWAN to their business and operations. help manage the flow of data. This is a conversation that I love as prospective customers have usually spoken to many different SDWAN vendors and received many different answers to this question. My answer is that the best fit for each customer depends on the use-cases and business and technical requirements they are trying to address. In starting that discussion I like to cover off some and the answer may be slightly different each time since the utilization of the SDWAN will vary from vendor to vendor.

However, there are some “universal” truths, and here are the top six benefits that SDWAN offers our customers.