Software Defined Wide Area Networks | Solutions and Services
SD-WAN is the foundation for all the other services your customers will need. With organizations moving partially or completely to the Cloud, they will need an internet optimized for their unique usage and requirements. SD-WAN provides intelligent routing across campus, city, states, and the globe – ensuring the highest level of Cloud performance, while protecting the organization from threats. With this solution you can centralize the IT department (or Managed Services Partner), gain functional control over the whole network, increasing performance, and deliver a high-quality user experience that increases business productivity.
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DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH
Customers invested or plan to invest in private/public cloud? SD-WAN providers connect directly to most Cloud services, including AWS, Azure, and Google. There are benefits to an integration that allows dynamic bandwidth growth as cloud needs evolve.
SECURITY
Organizations today are attracted to the cost associated with internet circuits but worry about security, if transmitting sensitive data. You can provide secure connections between sites without having to deal with the complexities of managing VPNs.
REDUNDANCY
By aggregating multiple internet circuits together, you can give your client’s organization the flexibility and confidence to choose, and combine, different carrier providers to gain speed while also ensuring preferred overall network performance.
QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE
Providers choose the best circuit based on real-time statistics, giving priority to video and voice. With SD-WAN solutions you can prioritize mission-critical applications – optimizing traffic to reduce overall latency, jitter, and response times.
BANDWIDTH AGGREGATION
Utilize multiple circuits, balance the load, and provide a better quality of experience. By aggregating internet circuits together, it allows the realization of large amounts of bandwidth, while securely connecting to additional private locations
NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION (NFV)
You may not know what the future holds, but you can remove future roadblocks. With SD-WAN you gain flexibility along with the ability to virtualize many network functions to evolve technology, scale, and adapt as organizational needs change.
Watch and Learn
Expand Control and Visibility with SD-WAN & NextGen Connectivity
Gerry Davis, SVP Sales Engineering and Eric Beller, Sales Engineer – Central Region shared a vendor agnostic look at the benefits of adopting SD-WAN and NextGen Connectivity solutions. They explored how the technology works and the many benefits it provides to organizations.
Make SD-WAN the Start of Every Customer Conversation
Gerry Davis, SVP Sales Engineering and Eric Beller, Sales Engineer – Central Region introduced SD-WAN – they shared key ideas, terms, and approaches, before introducing some of our leading SD-WAN Providers to discuss their unique solutions and how they benefit customers.
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SD-WAN Unlocks (Network, Security, Performance & Collaboration) Potential
SD-WAN is a big topic, but not that hard to understand. This article takes you through the benefits, pros/cons of different deployments, and the key ideas you should know to discuss with your customer. Invest a few minutes to read, and prepare yourself, to start the SD-WAN conversation.
Promote SD-WAN to Organizations
Sandler Partners have access to customizable SD-WAN campaigns from the Marketing Center! Located in the Sandler Portal, the Marketing Center lets Partners create strategically targeted campaigns with collateral, emails, social posts, and microsites that can be updated, sent, and tracked from within the center! What a great way to be positioned for category thought leadership in the minds of the ones who count – existing or potential customers.
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A Dynamic Approach to SD-WAN, Providers Give You Options
Our Featured Providers
Aryaka is a cloud-first SD-WAN company; their SmartServices platform offers connectivity, application acceleration, Security, Cloud networking, and insights that leverage global orchestration and provisioning. Aryaka is consistently rated in Gartner’s Voice of the Customer Surveys. With an optimized global network, a mesh of PoPs delivering amazing connectivity including China, Aryaka’s customers include hundreds of international enterprises including several Fortune 100 companies who can achive “LAN-like” best-in class application performance experience across their WAN wiith global 5×9 SLAs.
Cato Networks is a native Cloud carrier providing a revolutionary converged software stack providing managed SD-WAN and Security service. Cato has the largest independent global backbone with over 50 Points of Presence (PoPs), allowing them to optimize traffic end-to-end. Cato is a technology leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Cato empowers customers with the visibility and control they need to connect, secure, and run their networks with 24/7/365 Global NOC support. Cato optimizes all traffic end-to-end between users and applications, and protects all traffic with built-in security as a service with next-gen firewall capabilities.
Granite brings stability to both end-users and partners. Granite helps more than 2/3rds of Fortune 100 companies with their voice and data requirements. Granite’s core products include POTS, Epik (wireless POTS replacement), SIP, 7 different SD-WAN platform, Mobility and IoT, and managed services (SD-WAN, switches, firewalls, AP’s, circuits). With Granite, you can consolidate multiple vendors and invoices under a single national supplier that provides discounted service. This one-stop-shop platform allows your customers to focus on other business matters. One Company. One Bill. One Point of Contact. Granite’s scalability also allows organizations to grow with imminent demand.
Bigleaf Networks provides internet connectivity without complexity, making it easy for IT pros and their organizations to conduct business on the internet with confidence. Bigleaf’s unique network optimization solution adapts traffic to circuit conditions in real time to preserve application performance and optimize user productivity despite circuit degradations or outages. The Bigleaf solution integrates seamlessly with established firewalls, ISPs, and applications, takes only minutes to install, and works unattended to provide immediate relief and value. Founded in 2012 in Portland, Oregon, Bigleaf Networks is investor-backed and provides service across North America and Europe.
NHC is a reseller and aggregator that offers services including network connectivity, VoIP, UCaaS, CCaaS, SD-WAN, security as a service (SECaaS), software as a service (SaaS), POTS Lines, hardware as a service (HaaS), and managed services. NHC offers solutions that utilize legacy and complex communications technologies delivered on a single invoice, managed through a transparent online portal using a single pane of glass view, with streamlined 100% stateside support teams.
WiredIQ is a technology company that works exclusively through the channel and provides a complete suite of managed services delivered in one intelligent appliance, the Brain Box. The Brain Box brings together SD-WAN, Managed IT Services, Security as a Service (SaaS), and Internet of Things (IoT) management onto one device, while maintaining PCI 3.0 and HIPAA compliance. WiredIQ also offers a full suite of Unified Communications applications, a robust Contact Center offering, Broadband, and POTS.
Sandler Partners have access to the full portfolio of 70+ SD-WAN solution Providers — including leading providers Comcast, TPx, Masergy, ZeroOutages, HyperCore Networks, and QOS. You can review all your available options by using the Solutions Finder or Solutions Index tools located in the Sandler Portal. For help navigating your way through the process, while discovering the best provider(s) solutions available to meet your client’s requirements, simply contact our Sales Engineering Team!