{"id":19744,"date":"2020-10-23T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavellenetworks.com\/?p=19744"},"modified":"2023-07-26T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:37:51","slug":"how-to-reduce-hardware-and-software-support-costs-using-lavelle-networks-sd-wan-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavellenetworks.com\/blog\/how-to-reduce-hardware-and-software-support-costs-using-lavelle-networks-sd-wan-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reduce Hardware and Software Support Costs Using Lavelle Networks SD-WAN Solutions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

2020 has been a roller coaster ride for the information technology sectors. With lockdown all over the world for nearly most of the year, decentralization of work became a really important issue for most of the sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amidst the lockdowns work from home became an important part of several different companies around the world. In a way work from home has been effective for most of these companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The enterprises can now effectively spend less on physical locations and workspaces and increase their working potential and profitability by allowing the employees to work from their residences. Still, with working from home, a few factors like data security, scalability, and maintaining performance standards become a challenge for the companies following this model.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the above problems can be solved by using Lavelle Network’s SD-WAN solutions. The company\u2019s cloud-based solutions not only reduce the individual needs of hardware setup and maintenance but also take away the software complexities faced by the different companies using the traditional MPLS service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately this provides the enterprise a huge cost saving in terms of resources spent and features available. In fact, this was just the direct way in which Lavelle’s SD-WAN saves the expenses of the company. Discussed below are the several indirect ways in which cost savings are applied for the firms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SD-WAN: A comprehensive introduction<\/b><\/h2>\n

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A Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a network architecture that is developed virtually and helps business enterprises to leverage limitless possibilities of combination for transport services. This custom development solution can be used for a wide variety of applications that range from MPLS to LTE and broadband internet services.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking about its operations, in layman terms, SD-WAN functions over a centralized control function to navigate direct traffic across WAN in a more secure manner. This method of securing data over a fixed network increases application performance and ensures a prominent user experience, resulting in improved productivity, and reduced costs for IT.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, the WANs that we rely on for completing the major IT operations were never designed for conventional routers but were made for cloud operations. WANs operate in a linear fashion and ensure effectiveness by backhauling all the traffic that is processed through them. This traffic also includes cloud traffics that is exchanged between two different entities in a working structure. <\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the normal WAN architecture, the SD-WAN model is designed to ensure compatible performance with applications that are hosted over the data centers and private clouds. Moreover, the SD-WAN application ensures the efficient exchange of data packets over several SaaS services without dropping the application performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The future of SD-WAN<\/b><\/h3>\n

Before we move over to the future of SD-WAN, it is essential to do a comparative analysis of why SD-WAN is more efficient than the primary SDN. While SDN has been effectively used in the traditional telecom sector and data center infrastructures, it has been successful in reducing the costs over operations and also improves stability and expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n

SD-WAN has proven to be a more cost-effective solution that has accelerated the performance of several MPLS networks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listed below is the comparative analysis of the same:<\/span><\/p>\n

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SDN<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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SD-WAN<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Major applications in data centers.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Used primarily offices with multiple branches and data centers.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Centralized control and orchestration.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Provision over minimum touch, Centralized orchestration, and Effective control.<\/p>\n

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Different channels for data forwarding planes.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Presence of individual channels for control and data forwarding plane<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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This technology has consumed a long time to upgrade.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Updated technology with real-time development and changes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A plethora of options to categorize commodity and other generic hardware.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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An application that is offered with over 86 appliances that are physical, cloud, and virtual.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Under SDN, savings are done by improved efficiencies over effective savings.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Under SD-WAN, savings are done by utilizing the costs on lower WAN transport.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.silver-peak.com\/sd-wan\/sd-wan-explained<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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How can businesses reduce hardware & software costs with SD-WAN?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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