Source One’s Telecom Strategic Sourcing experts help companies understand their network requirements, reduce costs, and improve performance in the SD-WAN spend category.
Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Software-Defined Network (SDN) are the future of network connectivity solutions, enhancing or replacing most or all of many enterprises’ MPLS networks. Ultimately, SD-WAN helps to ensure that bandwidth is optimally utilized so companies can get the most for their Telecom spend. Best-in-class corporations using SD-WAN are realizing substantial cost savings through optimization, having better access to cloud-based services and realizing better performance, control and redundancy from their wide area networks.
Source One’s Telecom and IT strategic sourcing experts have a long and successful history of navigating the telecom market and supporting clients through changes in technology and network architecture. Source One’s service portfolio supporting SD-WAN includes:
SD-WAN is unique as solutions are offered by not only the large carriers and hardware manufacturers but also the smaller, emerging players – all while mergers and acquisitions seem to be occurring each week. Each SD-WAN supplier has their own approach, and no “one size fits all” model exists. Source One’s IT strategic sourcing experts will help you navigate the SD-WAN marketplace and select and implement the right SD-WAN solution for your business.
Contact Source One’s SD-WAN Cost Reduction Team
Source One’s IT & Telecom Strategic Sourcing experts have deep knowledge of the technology landscape. Our IT & Telecom cost reduction experts are in the marketplace every day, keeping up with the latest technology trends and how they impact Procurement, and leveraging our IT & Telecom benchmark data to track service offerings and associated pricing changes.
SDN vs SD-WAN
Software Defined Networking is the foundation upon which carriers are able to provide SD-WAN service offerings, via Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching is a network protocol that enables enterprise customers to connect any or all of their sites with one another in a fully meshed configuration. It also allows customers to prioritize traffic to ensure optimal performance of applications, including voice and video over the network.
Source One’s SD-WAN Strategic Sourcing experts understand that there is a sensitive balance between retaining incumbent providers and building a new SD-WAN strategy, as well as the up-front cost sensitivities on changing/adding to infrastructure in the network. Regardless of your situation, whether you are committed to your incumbent SD-WAN supplier, or want to explore the SD-WAN marketplace, our cost reduction team will adapt based on your interests and provide the information, analysis, and insight you need to arrive at a confident decision about the future of your network.