SD-WAN for Multi-Site Businesses
SD-WAN puts every site, circuit and application under one set of policies, so you can see where your bandwidth goes and decide what gets it first.
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A wide area network is the set of circuits that connects your sites and users to the applications they depend on. SD-WAN is the layer above it: one control point where traffic across all of those links is monitored, prioritised and secured. Rather than logging into each site's hardware in turn, you set policy once and it applies across the estate.
That control is only as good as the reporting behind it. SD-WAN shows which applications, departments and individual users are consuming bandwidth, and when. The slowdown that hits every afternoon stops being a mystery and becomes something you can fix with a policy change instead of a bigger circuit.
It is worth being clear about when SD-WAN is not the answer. A single-site business does not have a wide area network to manage, and adding a control layer over one circuit buys nothing. The value scales with the number of sites and the number of different circuit types between them — a business with three offices, a warehouse and a mixture of leased lines and broadband is where it starts to earn its cost.
What SD-WAN changes day to day
Visibility down to the user
Reporting that breaks bandwidth use out by application, department and individual user, so you can see exactly what is competing with business-critical traffic and at what time of day.
Bandwidth that follows demand
Capacity reserved for something like telephony does not sit idle overnight. SD-WAN recognises what is actually in use and releases the rest back into the pool for other traffic.
A recovery policy on standby
Run a normal policy and a disaster recovery policy side by side. If available bandwidth drops, the recovery policy engages and prioritises the services you cannot trade without.
How we build it
- Centralised control, monitoring and security across every network you operate
- Traffic reporting by application, department and individual user
- Dynamic bandwidth allocation that returns idle capacity to the pool
- Separate day-to-day and disaster recovery policies, switching automatically
- Built on Forcepoint, Palo Alto, Cisco or Fortinet to suit the requirement
- Underlying circuits from us as well: FTTP, Ethernet leased lines and 4G/5G backup
- One supplier for the overlay and the connectivity beneath it, so faults are not passed between vendors
- A named local director as your point of contact, backed by 24/7 UK-based support
SD-WAN for Multi-Site Businesses — Common Questions
What is the difference between a WAN and SD-WAN?
A WAN is the set of connections linking your sites to each other and to the applications your staff use. SD-WAN is the software layer on top of it: one place to monitor those links, apply traffic policy and enforce security, instead of configuring each site's hardware separately.
Can SD-WAN keep us running if a line is cut?
You can hold a disaster recovery policy alongside your normal one, each with its own priorities for bandwidth. If capacity drops, the second policy takes over and holds the line for whatever you have marked as business-critical, so even a fallback onto mobile data carries what matters most.
Which SD-WAN vendors do you work with?
We build on Forcepoint, Palo Alto, Cisco and Fortinet, choosing the platform that fits the requirement rather than pushing one product at every business. We can also provide the connectivity underneath — FTTP, Ethernet leased lines and 4G/5G backup — so the overlay and the circuits come from the same supplier.
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Talk to us about your sites
Tell us how many sites you run, what traffic crosses them and where performance falls over. Your named local director will go through the requirement with you and put a design together, including the circuits underneath if you want them from one place.