When we talk about digital transformation, organizations need the flexibility to keep pace with the business change. However, they are often hindered by rigid and sluggish network infrastructure. 

This blog will discuss the five key benefits of implementing an advanced SD-WAN solution and how it may accelerate business growth.

Improvement in business agility while also reducing the WAN cost

If you connect branch offices to the corporate data center, organizations traditionally use expensive MPLS lines. More bandwidth is required to support the increase in connectivity demands. A new MPLS circuit may take up to four months to be provisioned by slowing down the ability to spin up a new branch. 

CloudMyLab offers Cisco SD-WAN that can help organizations realize the agility needed by the business while also reducing costs.

Increasing security and seamless transition to the SASE architecture

Organizations with an MPLS router-based architecture won’t be able to efficiently enforce the branches' security policies due to the network's complexity and rigidity, especially in hybrid-cloud environments.

Enabling a cloud architecture

Organizations have been migrating the cloud application and using the software as a service (SaaS) cloud-hosted business applications like Dropbox, Box, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and more instead of hosting them in the data center. 

SD-WAN enables organizations to embrace the architecture's flexibility while also helping improve the performance of cloud applications by steering traffic directly to the cloud with local internet breakout.

Simplifying the WAN infrastructure

Organizations over the years have built their network infrastructure with their business growth. Branch offices often end up with a stack of appliances in their facilities, including WAN optimization devices, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and routers. Updating security or business policy like moving an application to the cloud or improving the service quality often requires manual reconfiguration of multiple devices.

SD-WAN enables the organizations to move to a thin-branch model that helps to reduce the amount of equipment in the branch locations and streamline the network architecture. It also helps significantly reduce WAN management overhead.

Management of network operations to get visibility

Organizations must manage their operations locally, resulting in a lack of flexibility. The network deployment of new remote sites can be tedious and may take several weeks. With SD-WAN, new branch offices are set up easily and quickly, and security policy changes may be automatically distributed to thousands of branches within minutes while minimizing errors.

If you want, you can get in touch with CloudMyLab for any further assistance.