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The first and most important component to MPLS is its privacy.
For those of you who are increasingly concerned about security (who isn’t?) this quality is more beneficial than ever.
There’s also an important performance benefit: Class of Service.
Class of Service provides you control over which applications get bandwidth priority. This ensures your critical services perform as needed all the time.
Without this feature, all of your network applications compete for the same bandwidth.
Think about it. Do you want You Tube sessions competing with your database and voice applications? Probably not.
The third critical element to MPLS is the circuits themselves.
You can use T1 circuits, fiber or any business-class service on MPLS.
By doing so, your foundation is set on circuits that must meet a minimum performance and uptime standard.
Don’t overlook this piece!
A dedicated circuit will also perform more reliably and than a public-access circuit.

SDWAN is a nice service for its flexibility and fast implementation.
In a pinch, SDWAN can be used to provide services for locations that may be difficult to reach (via MPLS) for financial or other reasons.
SDWAN is nice to have as a compliment to your MPLS network so you can add a location quickly on your network.

Please be aware of a few differences and potential shortcomings . . .

Network visibility
• be sure your SDWAN can be fully integrated within your existing network
• using different SDWAN and MPLS providers can result in a loss of network visibility between sites
• if possible use the same service provider for both your MPLS and SDWAN connections to ensure the best performance

SDWAN will work with a single broadband provider.
However, if you do this you’re only saving money in the short-term and foregoing the stability enhancements.
SDWAN, as we’ve reviewed, works best with 2 ISPs where it provide load balancing and redundancy.
Keeping this in mind, when you budget your enterprise class SDWAN, two ISPs and programming time, I doubt you will see a meaningful cost savings compared to an MPLS circuit and router.
SDWAN will work with a single broadband provider.
However, if you do this you’re only saving money in the short-term and foregoing the stability enhancements.
• SDWAN, as we’ve reviewed, works best with 2 ISPs where it provide load balancing and redundancy.
• If possible use both private and public connections for each site.
SDWAN will work with a single broadband provider.
However, if you do this you’re only saving money in the short-term and foregoing the stability enhancements.
SDWAN, as we’ve reviewed, works best with 2 ISPs where it provide load balancing and redundancy.

Keeping this in mind, when you budget your enterprise class SDWAN, two ISPs and programming time, I doubt you will see a meaningful cost savings compared to an MPLS circuit and router.

Like all things telecommunications, the choices and pricing vary greatly among the SDWAN providers available today.
If your operation requires the highest level of uptime productivity levels than you also need an enterprise-level SDWAN solution.

This video skims the surface.
There are other considerations and we’re happy to discuss those with you.
Contact RAM anytime and we’ll be happy to help!

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https://www.ramcomminc.com/wan-services/