What is SD-WAN?

Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is a modern, software-based approach that lets organizations seamlessly connect and manage multiple WAN connections — such as MPLS, broadband, and fiber — across their branch sites or remote offices.

Unlike traditional WAN setups that rely on a single expensive link, SD-WAN dynamically routes traffic across the best available path based on real-time performance.

What Problems Does SD-WAN Solve?

►　Challenge: Rising Bandwidth Demands & Costly Legacy Links
Traditionally, businesses have depended on costly MPLS circuits to guarantee reliable branch connectivity. But with today’s surge in cloud apps, video meetings, and connected devices, MPLS alone can’t handle the rising bandwidth needs — and adding capacity is expensive and slow.

Solution with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN:

Meraki SD-WAN intelligently combines multiple link types (like broadband and fiber) with or without MPLS. This means you can reduce dependence on expensive MPLS circuits and instead add affordable bandwidth that’s secure and reliable — all managed centrally through the Meraki cloud dashboard.

►　Challenge: Poor Application Performance in the Cloud Era
Modern applications live everywhere: in your data center, on IaaS platforms, and SaaS services like Microsoft 365 or Salesforce. Unlike traditional WANs, businesses can’t directly manage these cloud environments — leading to unpredictable performance, latency, and user frustration.

Solution with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN:

With Meraki SD-WAN, traffic is automatically steered along the best-performing path based on live conditions. Business-critical applications always get priority. Direct Internet breakouts, intelligent routing, and built-in analytics maximize cloud app performance — delivering a better experience for end users, wherever they work.

► Challenge: Rising Bandwidth Demands & Costly Legacy Links
Traditionally, businesses have depended on costly MPLS circuits to guarantee reliable branch connectivity. But with today’s surge in cloud apps, video meetings, and connected devices, MPLS alone can’t handle the rising bandwidth needs — and adding capacity is expensive and slow.

Solution with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN:

Meraki SD-WAN intelligently combines multiple link types (like broadband and fiber) with or without MPLS. This means you can reduce dependence on expensive MPLS circuits and instead add affordable bandwidth that’s secure and reliable — all managed centrally through the Meraki cloud dashboard.

► Challenge: Poor Application Performance in the Cloud Era
Modern applications live everywhere: in your data center, on IaaS platforms, and SaaS services like Microsoft 365 or Salesforce. Unlike traditional WANs, businesses can’t directly manage these cloud environments — leading to unpredictable performance, latency, and user frustration.

Solution with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN:

With Meraki SD-WAN, traffic is automatically steered along the best-performing path based on live conditions. Business-critical applications always get priority. Direct Internet breakouts, intelligent routing, and built-in analytics maximize cloud app performance — delivering a better experience for end users, wherever they work.

SD-WAN Made Simple with Cisco Meraki

  • The simplest SD-WAN available

    True zero-touch provisioning allows the quickest and simplest way for organizations to significantly reduce their total WAN costs and deliver the desired level of performance for VoIP and business critical cloud applications—no matter where they are hosted.

  • Natively secure SD-WAN

    Natively integrated advanced security that includes next-gen layer-7 firewall, Cisco AMP with Threat Grid, Cisco SNORT IDS/IPS, cloud security with Cisco Umbrella SIG, and content filtering—to confidently allow direct Internet access.

  • Advanced analytics

    Supreme visibility into key factors that influence how users experience business-critical resources to identify any degradation and its root cause in a matter of minutes.
    ・Web Application Health
    ・WAN Health
    ・VoIP Health

  • Unified management platform

    Streamline IT operations with management of SD-WAN as well as wireless, switching, security, cellular, end-point management, and smart security cameras into a single intuitive and centralized platform.

Learn more at meraki.com/sd-wan

Managed Service by SYSCOM

While SD-WAN unlocks powerful capabilities, it still requires expertise to design, deploy, monitor, and secure across multiple sites.

Our Managed Network Service with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN takes this burden off your IT team. We handle the entire lifecycle — from planning and hardware installation to 24/7 monitoring, proactive issue resolution, and ongoing optimization — so you get all the benefits without the complexity.

What Sets SYSCOM Apart

SYSCOM GLOBAL SOLUTIONS is a total IT solutions provider that provides optimal solutions for customers’ IT and digital challenges. We’ve helped more than 1,000 companies in all industries and sizes to expand, improve and globalize their businesses.

With multiple office locations in the U.S. and Japan and a global network of partners, we execute projects across the U.S., Japan, Asia, and Europe. Our strength lies in our global support capabilities, with a thorough understanding of local languages and business practices, and our development capabilities, with over 70% of our employees being engineers. We meet all IT-related needs, from strategic planning to system operation and maintenance management.

 

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