Public SD-WAN

SD-WAN is fastest growing network infrastructure model

SD-WAN is one of the fastest-growing segments of the network infrastructure market. This is because:

• traditional enterprise WANs are failing to meet the needs of today’s modern digital businesses, especially relating to the support of SaaS apps and multi- and hybrid-cloud usage

• enterprises are interested in easier management of multiple connection types across their WAN to improve application performance and end-user experience

• the advent of cloud-based applications like Office 365 and Amazon Web Services (AWS) applications requiring secure remote access

• the high cost, complexity and time required to deploy alternative technologies like MPLS

Why Public SD-WAN?

Public SD-WAN utilises the public cloud which means the responsibility for hosting, securing and maintaining the data centre is outsourced.

The Public Cloud environment is appealing to many companies, and is especially so is well-suited to smaller enterprises, because it:

• reduces lead times in testing and deploying new products

• requires less investment in infrastructure

• relieves inhouse IT resource from the activity of hosting, securing and maintaining a private cloud environment

• is less expensive than private or hybrid SD-WAN for all of the above reasons

Key capabilities of SD-WAN

There are two key capabilities of SD-WAN which are particularly appealing to IT teams in 2020. These are:

• centralised orchestration
  By centralising the configuration of an SD-WAN as well as application performance and security policies, enterprises can significantly reduce WAN operational expenses.

• zero-touch provisioning (ZTP)
  With ZTP, configurations and policies are programmed once and pushed to all branch locations without having to manually program each device individually using a CLI. It eliminates the need to send specialised IT resources out to branch locations whenever a new application is added, or a policy is changed. ZTP also reduces human errors, resulting in more consistent policies across to enterprise.

MobileCorp Public SD-WAN managed service

MobileCorp has extensive experience and expertise in developing SD-WAN solutions utilising public, private or hybrid cloud environments.

As a Telstra Platinum Partner, we are uniquely placed to leverage Telstra’s SD-WAN solution for our customers, however we also work with the leading global public SD-WAN vendors.

Every corporate network is unique in some form and the business requirements are also exclusive to each company. While there may be some consistencies in the infrastructure across corporate networks, there are equally distinct individualised approaches, philosophies and existing legacy systems. Each situation needs to be assessed on its own merits.

MobileCorp’s Public SD-WAN managed service

• Consultancy including business case objectives and justification, technologies evaluation, costing and return on investment calculations.

• Solution Architecture network design, solution risk assessment, solution performance assessment, failover and redundancy design.

• Project Management liaising with service providers, building and implementing project plans.

• Solution Documentation bespoke network designs require full documentation to ensure provisioning teams understand the design, internal teams are able to troubleshoot and maintain the network.

• SD-WAN Vendor Management evaluation of third-party vendors including Telstra, VMWare, Cisco, Azure and others; recommendation of ‘best fit’ provider, project management of ordering and provisioning.