SD-WAN managed services

Modernize your network with SD-WAN managed services

Digital transformation is creating incredible new opportunities for your business. From IoT and cloud computing to AI and real-time collaboration tools, emerging technologies can deliver enormous benefits and superior efficiency – if your network can keep pace. To stay competitive, you need a fast, flexible and reliable network that maximizes bandwidth while minimizing cost.

A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is the ideal network solution for this rapidly evolving digital world. By allowing traffic to flow over multiple types of connections and managing them from a central source, SD-WAN effectively prioritizes traffic and cost-efficiently allocates bandwidth while simplifying network management. Yet, designing and building an SD-WAN can be overwhelming for IT teams already juggling a backlog of projects and priorities. 

That’s where SD-WAN managed services from Spectrum Enterprise can help. Our Managed SD-WAN solution gives you access to experienced teams who can assist with everything from network design to installation and project management. With our SD-WAN managed services offering, you get the network solutions your business requires and the hands-on expertise your IT teams want.

How SD-WAN solves the challenges of digital transformation

The many new technologies that are transforming the marketplace and traditional IT environments all have one thing in common: they rely on fast connectivity and significant bandwidth. However, traditional networks typically struggle to support the bandwidth needs of these new business-critical applications.

To ensure superior performance, your business needs a flexible, reliable network that makes optimal use of available bandwidth. Ideally, it should route critical traffic over faster paths while allowing non-critical traffic to flow over lower speed, less costly connections. An SD-WAN accomplishes this by virtualizing network functions so they can be managed from a central source and by allowing traffic to flow over multiple types of connections, including fiber, coax, wireless and others. By efficiently orchestrating resources, SD-WAN ensures that mission-critical, bandwidth-hungry applications get priority over less important activities.

While deploying SD-WAN solutions can be accomplished without a major network overhaul or capital investment, it takes considerable resources and expertise to implement it effectively and manage it well. That’s where SD-WAN managed services can play a central role. By partnering with a trusted managed service provider, you can simplify the complexity of installation and ongoing management, extend the capabilities and capacity of your network team and free up time for your IT professionals to focus on strategic initiatives.

SD-WAN managed services from Spectrum Enterprise

Spectrum Enterprise Managed SD-WAN is a fully managed solution that simplifies and adapts as your business and technology needs evolve. With this SD-WAN managed services solution, you can easily and cost-effectively implement an optimal network design that delivers the connectivity your users, systems and applications need to perform at their best.

With our SD-WAN managed services solution, you can:

• Adapt to dynamic workloads. Application-aware, intelligent routing directs and prioritizes traffic to ensure that applications and workloads get the bandwidth and performance they need.
• Enhance insight and control. An easy-to-use portal lets you centrally manage your SD-WAN and quickly gain insight into performance, traffic and utilization.
• Minimize complexity. As a complete end-to-end solution, our SD-WAN managed services eliminate the complexity usually associated with multivendor, multi-technology legacy networks.
• Enjoy diverse and dependable connectivity. Route traffic over a full range of high-speed connectivity options and transport types to improve reliability and speed.
• Add additional security. Our SD-WAN managed services solution offers firewalls and unified threat management (UTM) to integrate security from edge to the cloud. 

The benefits of SD-WAN managed services

As the speed of digital transformation increases, managed services provide a cost-effective way to meet your technology needs while allowing your IT staff to stay focused on strategic priorities. Solutions like SD-WAN managed services provide:

• Financial benefits. With SD-WAN managed services, you can convert capital expense into operational expense opportunities and lower ongoing connectivity costs. You can also save by avoiding the need to hire, train and employ additional IT staff.
• Hard-to-find expertise. SD-WAN managed services from Spectrum Enterprise augment your IT and network teams with experts who can help to manage and update your network environment, avoiding errors and downtime that can jeopardize security and productivity.
• Easier management. As an experienced network partner, we offer a consultative approach to designing, implementing and managing SD-WAN solutions. Our teams are fully invested in your success and can help you achieve your business objectives with award-winning, end-to-end technology solutions and support that make managing IT infrastructure easier.

Why choose Spectrum Enterprise?

Spectrum Enterprise is a national provider of scalable, fiber technology solutions. America’s largest businesses and communications service providers – including 80 percent of the Fortune 500 – rely on our technology and expertise to realize their boldest ambitions. From fiber internet and networking solutions to voice, HDTV and security, our broad portfolio of solutions and managed services helps you stay ahead of your competitors and navigate quickly changing marketplace conditions.

When you choose us as a partner, we help to improve your performance by making your needs and success our top priority. Our teams immerse themselves in your business needs and challenges to design and deliver solutions that solve problems today while preparing your technology for the future. The combination of a modern fiber network, a comprehensive portfolio of services and a relentless commitment to customer service allows us to deliver extraordinary value for our clients.

FAQs

What is SD-WAN?

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) uses software to manage and optimize traffic over a combination of network connections such as broadband, LTE and MPLS. By monitoring network performance in real time, SD-WAN intelligently routes traffic to improve application performance and ensure consistent connectivity. SD-WAN benefits include centralized control, more cost-efficient connections and simpler management of networks across multiple locations.

What is SD-WAN vs VPN?

SD-WAN and VPN both provide secure network access, but SD-WAN offers advanced traffic management for large-scale, multi-site environments. VPNs are designed to create secure tunnels for individual remote users, but they don't dynamically prioritize traffic or adapt to changing network conditions. SD-WAN enhances performance by routing traffic based on real-time needs, whereas a VPN is generally suited for simpler secure access without network optimization.

What is SD-WAN vs MPLS?

MPLS and SD-WAN are both networking technologies, with MPLS relying on private, dedicated lines to deliver consistent, high-quality connections that are ideal for sensitive data applications. Unlike MPLS, SD-WAN can combine various types of internet connections and adjust routing to prioritize performance and reduce costs. SD-WAN’s flexibility makes it well-suited for cloud-based applications and organizations needing scalable, high-performance connectivity across multiple sites.