SD-WAN vs MPLS - It’s not either or!

There have been some misconceptions that SD-WAN and MPLS are mutually exclusive. In fact, they are quite complementary. While most SD-WAN deployments include active utilization of broadband services, many continue to utilize MPLS circuits as part of the WAN transport resource pool.
Enterprises with dual MPLS circuits at each branch site often allow one contract to expire and then continue with a hybrid strategy. We are beginning to see customers allow their secondary MPLS contracts to expire as they become comfortable moving forward with dual broadband services only. The result is tremendous bandwidth improvements and cost savings.
An intelligent SD-WAN platform can combine transport services into a single, logical high-bandwidth link, improving application performance. More advanced platforms continuously monitor the throughput, packet loss, latency and jitter of all transport services. The SD-WAN then automatically routes traffic – and when necessary, reroutes traffic – to maintain compliance with Quality of Service and security policies.

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