SD-WAN: Helping You Achieve Simplified Network Efficiency
Traditional Wide Area Networks (WANs) often struggle to meet modern business demands. Built on multiple single-function devices with silo management systems and disparate WAN connections, these networks require extensive resources to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot.
SD-WAN uses software-defined networking (SDN) technology to connect branch offices and data centres across long distances. This allows businesses to have even greater control over how they segment and set protocols for their network.
SPTel is a managed SD-WAN provider that can enable your business to implement SD-WAN solutions on a secure and scalable digitalised network. When SD-WAN is paired with our Software Defined Network, we can do traffic steering within your subscribed bandwidth and increase your bandwidth as needed while adding additional traffic steering protocols on demand.
Supported by our digitalised Customer Portal, users can scale up their bandwidth as required with Bandwidth on Demand to mitigate network congestion. Delivering a truly flexible and programmable network experience.
How Does SD-WAN Benefit Your Business?
Businesses choose SD-WAN to simplify network management and build higher-performance hybrid WANs. This is particularly valuable for those using everyday Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Microsoft 365 and Zoom, which require a reliable and secure connection.
However, as bandwidth and security requirements grow, achieving optimal network performance while managing costs becomes increasingly difficult for businesses. With Managed SD-WAN services, SPTel can address these challenges by providing a unified platform to streamline operations, improve performance, and reduce your network costs.
WAN network management is crucial in simplifying IT operations and enhancing security. IT managers can now reduce costs by centrally defining security policies and managing secure zones across any combination of users, applications, and virtual overlays.
See how customers like Aspial Group can gain a digitalisation edge by leveraging our Managed SD-WAN solution.
How Does Our SD-WAN Work?
Our managed SD-WAN provides secure, optimised connectivity for all application types. This flexible SD-WAN infrastructure creates an advanced network overlay, compatible with your existing IPVPN, Metro Ethernet, or Broadband Internet.
The network overlay provides complete visibility over bandwidth usage and application performance, ensuring that mission-critical functions maintain maximum uptime. Customers can even benefit from increased network segmentation with different topologies that protect sensitive data through enhanced cybersecurity measures. Secure communication protocols can also be deployed with simple device configuration, protecting direct cloud traffic that bypasses traditional data centres.
Furthermore, you can monitor, provision, and automate network functions with virtual deployment protocols through your SD-WAN portal.
Product Benefits
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Reduced Congestion
Gain smoother operations with dynamic traffic steering to prioritise critical applications on a network fast lane.
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Convenience
SD-WAN supports agile software-defined activations, which means services can be turned on remotely via the programmable SD-WAN platform.
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Improved Network Resilience
SD-WAN’s auto-failover ensures uninterrupted connectivity and supports a hybrid WAN with seamless path switching.
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Flexibility
SPTel’s SD-WAN solution is supported by our intelligent business-class digital network that enables on-demand services such as bandwidth and cybersecurity, so users can flex their network requirements to handle unexpected situations.
Features
Deployment
Supports full mesh, partial mesh, and hub and spoke topologies with the options for physical on-site equipment or virtual Cloud deployment.
Application Visibility
Advanced traffic management module with detailed application usage, performance reporting, and control. Optimises WAN traffic through intelligent routing to enhance performance and reduce bandwidth upgrade needs.
Application Aware Routing
SD-WAN controller automatically routes traffic based on application metrics, site profiles, real-time optimisation, and performance requirements for enhanced WAN performance.
Monitoring & Reporting
Provides network availability, jitter, packet loss and latency performance reporting dashboard.
Overlay Network
Deployed with built-in tunnel encryption between sites, for constant security over the SD-WAN network infrastructure.
Recommended for:
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Financial Institutions
That want to implement segmented network strategies for isolating network resources for better security and efficiency, enabling higher security standards to be established.
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Healthcare Sector
That requires stable, secure communication with branch offices and data centres. SD-WAN delivers hybrid WAN solutions with security Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)—combining MPLS and Internet—for enhanced security, reliability, and performance.
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Retailers
Who need multiple broadband connections and MPLS simultaneously can integrate SD-WAN deployment to improve responsiveness, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
How It Works
Available Service Schemes
SD-WAN Basic
Simplify management of the enterprise WAN.
Features
- Cloud-based centralised management via the online portal with real-time network statistics and reports
- Smooth network with Traffic Steering Policies and Security (access control limitation).
100% Availability:
- High Availability configuration to ensure SD-WAN functions continuously without downtime for a higher Service Level Agreement.
SD-WAN Standard
Optimise application performance and availability with real-time analytics.
Features
- Application Visibility and Advanced Analytics
- Traffic isolation with VPN Segmentation
- AppAware Traffic Steering and Load Balancing
- IP-Based QoS and Traffic Shaping
100% Availability:
- High Availability configuration to ensure SD-WAN functions continuously without downtime for a higher Service Level Agreement.
SD-WAN Premium
Maximise performance, visibility, and security in a unified platform with centralised visibility and control.
Features
- Application Visibility and Advance Analytics
- Traffic isolation with VPN Segmentation
- AppAware Traffic Steering and Load Balancing
- IP-Based QoS and Traffic Shaping
- Service Chaining with Virtual Firewall
100% Availability:
- High Availability configuration to ensure SD-WAN functions continuously without downtime for a higher Service Level Agreement.
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Reasons to Choose SD-WAN
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2-in-1 Hardware Optimisation
SPTel’s Managed SD-WAN can reduce hardware requirements by combining security and SD-WAN functions in 1 box. This is particularly useful for businesses with complex networking needs. You’ll also benefit from enhanced security with a firewall, intrusion prevention, and secure web gateways integrated with your SD-WAN device.
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Work from Home
With SPTel, you can leverage SD-WAN software-defined infrastructure paired with the SPTel business home broadband solution to provide top-level management with reliable remote working capabilities and business continuity, even during crises like COVID-19. Your IT managers will also gain full visibility of network usage, control over access protocols, and the ability to extend corporate cybersecurity to remote environments. Troubleshooting becomes much simpler, and additional services like bandwidth or security features can be provisioned on demand.
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Added Resiliency
SPTel’s SD-WAN solution offers built-in redundancy, intelligently routing traffic over multiple connections to enhance WAN performance and reliability by automatically redirecting traffic when connections fail. You can also implement multiple service providers to meet risk management policies requiring provider diversification.
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Prioritise Mission Critical Applications
SD-WAN enables you to prioritise critical applications to use the most efficient network paths, improving performance while optimising costs. You can also de-prioritise less important applications and maintain better service-level agreements for essential business functions. SD-WAN managed services providers play a crucial role in ensuring efficient and secure network operations, alleviating the management burden from in-house IT teams.
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