Making the Business Case for SD-WAN

There are many things to consider for businesses to adopt a new technology into their environment. SD-WAN has emerged as a better way to build the WAN for organizations as it improves performance, adds greater redundancy and many times can reduce cost. I was fortunate to work with the Packet Pushers to create a white paper on making the Business Case for SD-WAN. Full disclosure, you do need a Packet Pushers Ignition account which is a bargain at a mere $99/yr for resources like this and access to their Slack channel in which you can find some pretty awesome networking conversations! If you want to check out the mini version for free, WAN Dynamics has a brief posted on our site here: http://www.wandynamics.com/sd-wan-building-the-business-case

I hope you find value in it and if you need to follow up, reach out to me on Twitter or LinkedIn!

Talking it through on Heavy Networking

The elements that belong in an SD-WAN business case and the ones that get overstated. Where the savings genuinely come from and where "we'll get rid of MPLS" turns into a wash. How to measure return after the fact in terms the finance side recognizes, uptime, productivity and visibility rather than just circuit cost. And the story that seems to follow me around, the manufacturer whose WAN was mostly YouTube playlists, which a commenter on the episode page argued could have been solved with more bandwidth. He is not wrong that bandwidth is often the cheap fix. He is wrong that you would have known that without the visibility.

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