SD-WAN Consulting, Implementation and Architecture Solution

Client 

A leading US-based power service provider spread across North America with 4 DCs, 80+ plant locations, and cloud presence in four regions.

Challenges

• Network traffic from all power plants take extra HOP on on-premises DCs to reach to Microsoft Azure via ExpressRoute.
• High-cost ExpressRoute and MPLS links for DCs currently being used for this connectivity without optimizing the usage of economic internet links.
• DCs are connected to Azure via high-cost ExpressRoute, which needs to be migrated to cost-effective, reliable alternatives.

LTM Solutions 

• Assessment of existing connectivity and flow of traffic from branch locations to cloud and data center.
• Solutioning for establishing the best possible connectivity between these locations with the help of Azure vWAN and vHUB.
• Best practices configuration for optimal usage of links and bandwidth for the flow of traffic.
• Designing, planning, and implementation of Any-to-any connectivity between data center, cloud, and branch locations.

Business Benefits

• Existing extra hop reduction for branch locations to reach Azure cloud reducing latency by more than 100 ms
• Express Route dependency eliminated efforts
• Simplified topology with standard configuration, reducing 50% of human configuration efforts
• Efficient access to workload data presence in the cloud
• Advanced traffic management and quality improvement for critical applications with SDWAN
• 40-80% cost savings by moving away from expensive ExpressRoute circuits and switching to SDWAN Overlay
• Migration from complex hub and spoke slower topology to more efficient spoke-to-spoke topology