Cut Costs and Gain Control with Cloud-Managed SD-WAN

Project Drivers

• Eleven locations connected using expensive MPLS and dedicated T1 circuits
• Remote connectivity couldn’t be centrally managed
• Client’s existing connectivity provider would only support the equipment provided by them
  • Those configurations were static and didn’t support a move away from MPLS and/or T1

Solution Components

• Meraki MX Firewalls with internet connections
  • MX100 Firewalls at the main IT office
  • MX64 Firewalls at remote locations, remotely implemented by an s4nets’ engineer

Impact

• Using Meraki MX Firewalls to provide software-defined connectivity provided the client with centralized management and control over how individual sites were managed
• Redundant connectivity at the main office minimizing outages
• The Return on Investment (ROI) for removing MPLS and T1 circuits and moving to SD-WAN paid for the hardware and implementation services in five months