SD-WAN is a network-based software solution that enables businesses to reduce costs by optimizing their bandwidth usage. Its benefits include right-sizing of circuits, Policy-based routing, and built-in resilience. SD-WAN software can save companies up to 500 percent in monthly costs, and the cost can be amortized over the circuit life. 

Policy-Based Routing

Policy-based routing in a software-designed WAN is one of the key features of SD-WAN solutions. This technology can make remote network connections across broadband internet more reliable and reduce costs. It does so by prioritizing traffic and monitoring different types of data. In many cases, SD-WAN can reduce costs by up to 90 percent.

SD-WAN helps reduce costs by enhancing last-mile performance and leveraging low-cost local Internet access. It also allows businesses to scale up and down bandwidth by bonding multiple WAN services. As a result, it enables companies to increase bandwidth capacity easily and quickly and reduces the total cost of ownership. SD-WAN also supports direct cloud access, enabling enterprises to access their cloud service directly. The technology also reduces costs by reducing traffic on the backbone WAN.

Right-Sizing of Circuits

Right-sizing of circuits in SD-WAN reduces costs in several ways. First, it delivers more bandwidth per circuit than conventional MPLS. Second, it provides centralized control and automated management functions. These benefits make hiring highly skilled network engineers unnecessary and reduce the cost of maintaining a network. SD-WAN can also result in significant savings in soft costs, including higher productivity, increased flexibility, and better compliance. Right-sizing circuits in SD-WAN reduce costs by leveraging multiple WAN means of transport to deliver more bandwidth at a lower cost. Third, it improves performance and application availability by offloading traffic from expensive circuits to lower-cost, higher-quality circuits. And finally, it optimizes application availability by proactive rerouting and performance monitoring.

Reducing The Likelihood of Human Error

Preventing human errors is a vitally important part of any business’ operations. In today’s world, the consequences of human error can be severe. Not only can it lead to poor quality work, but it can also affect an employee’s health. Therefore, it’s important to invest in employee training, and you should never stop until you’ve reached a level of confidence that you can trust your employees.

Various factors contribute to human error, including opportunity, environment, and lack of awareness. While most minor errors go unnoticed, they can add up over time and lead to catastrophic results. Fortunately, there are several easy ways to minimize the chances of human error in updates or site changes.

Built-In Resilience

One of the major benefits of SD-WAN is built-in resilience. This feature helps prevent network disruptions from causing downtime and data loss. SD-WAN solutions can also help reduce costs by reducing the connections needed for business applications. These appliances also offer high levels of security, including firewall and VPN capabilities.

SD-WAN solutions with built-in resilience have a number of features that help ensure a high degree of uptime and availability. For example, business-driven SD-WAN solutions can handle total transport outages seamlessly and provide failover times in the sub-second range, so business-critical applications remain online.