SD-WAN

The Problem: A financial services organization with ten plus national offices was looking to reduce its reliance on high cost MPLS circuits and improve the resiliency of their WAN environment. Of importance was the quality of VOIP traffic and the ability of business-critical voice to perform well, regardless of the conditions of the underlying network. Additional critical use cases were the need to standardize configurations at each location and to quickly deploy new sites.

The Solution: Point5 worked with the customer on a full SD-WAN requirements analysis to understand the working environment and the needs for optimization, traffic direction, business application intent, and site profiles. Once the analysis and conceptual design were completed, a platform evaluation was undertaken to match the use cases with leading solutions. A competitive matrix model was developed and the best fit was selected for a Proof of Concept. After a successful POC, Point5 assisted with the detailed design and implementation to all sites, building an overlay network on top of existing Internet and new Internet circuits that Point5 sourced as MPLS replacements. After production insertion and testing, the result was a lower cost WAN with increased resiliency, capable of directing high priority traffic including voice over the best performing of their dual Internet links.