4 Key Benefits of a Telco-Independent Approach for Your Enterprise
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In recent years, the world has experienced a rapid acceleration in digital transformation, especially with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today’s enterprises are now heavily reliant on modern technology. This means modern enterprises must develop or acquire network infrastructure that can meet the fast-evolving demands of customers and industries and ensure responsiveness to disruption.
Key Takeaways
- A telco-independent approach delivers numerous benefits for the modern enterprise, including considerable cost savings.
- SD-WAN is a seamless solution that delivers increased flexibility and better performance at a lower cost.
- Key benefits of a telco-independent SD-WAN approach include reduced costs, greater flexibility, increased customizability in how the service is managed, and added value with a wider variety of product features.
Leverage the right network infrastructure in the AI era
With the widespread adoption of hybrid and remote work, modern enterprises need reliable, stable, and secure networks that enable employees to work effectively from anywhere, anytime. Increased digital transformation has also led to many organizations adopting advanced digital solutions such as AI, the Internet of Things, Big Data analytics, and other disruptive forces.
To effectively support advanced digital solutions and cope with fluctuating data and bandwidth requirements, enterprise networks must be able to quickly scale up or down depending on the specific needs of the enterprise and their workforce. Enterprises need to be able to adapt at a moment’s notice.
Choose telco-independent SD-WAN as your go-to solution
In the AI era, increased demand to remain competitive has led to a shift towards Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN): a seamless solution that delivers increased flexibility and better performance at a lower cost.
Telco-independent SD-WAN is a go-to strategy for any organization wanting optimized performance. A telco-independent approach, usually accessed through a managed service provider (MSP), has become more prevalent in a disrupted world, delivering a host of benefits such as increased cost effectiveness, greater flexibility on how the enterprise’s environment is managed, being able to access the full potential of the technology, and optimization at the underlay at every site.
Below, we go into more detail on the 4 key benefits of leveraging a telco-independent approach for your enterprise.
1. Reduced costs
Traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telcos tend to offer fixed long-term contracts which may lock their customers in, resulting in higher costs. When proposing network solutions, telcos must also consider the return on investment of their legacy infrastructure and back-to-back agreements with infrastructure partners. This leads to questions surrounding the integrity and costs of the network solution as the enterprise’s needs aren’t at the forefront of the decisions.
With the rise of low-cost options for backbone networks globally, the telco-independent approach enables enterprises to leverage these low-cost options to meet their own unique business and network needs. The telco-independent approach is also often more affordable as such networks can be built on top of lower-cost internet infrastructure.
2. Greater flexibility
A telco-independent approach means you are not reliant on any one specific carrier; there is greater flexibility, and you can choose the providers that are best suited to your enterprise. This way, enterprises avoid telco and technology bias, enjoy more freedom and agility, and can move at the speed of modern business.
With a telco-independent approach, enterprises can enjoy truly global deployments that can be scaled as required. This is particularly the case with a partner that operates across multiple markets and geographies. With an optimal mix of connectivity providers at each location, the enterprise can enjoy the best possible performance and services, and deliver enhanced business outcomes.
Breaking away from traditional ISPs provides enterprises with access to local and regional broadband providers who, together, provide greater performance due to combined investment across thousands of providers at the local level. Your MSP may also grant you wider geographic accessibility, so you can use the best servers for the fastest response times.
3. Increased customizability in how the service is managed
The traditional fixed contracts that traditional ISPs and telcos tend to offer are “one size fits all” solutions limiting the types of software, services, and capabilities accessible to the enterprise. A model like this is less customizable and often leads to the enterprise accessing unwanted features and paying extra, resulting in low business value.
A telco-independent solution removes this limitation and enables tailor-made solutions aligned with business needs. With this customizability, enterprises pay for precisely what they need and are empowered to select the capabilities and services that they require to succeed. A strong partnership with your MSP can also help you tailor your network solution to your specific business use cases, maximizing the value of the technology to help you get ahead
4. Added value with a wider variety of product features
The telco-independent approach gives enterprises access to thousands of ISPs and telcos. Using a multi-vendor approach means enterprises get access to a much wider variety of tools and technologies than if they were tied to a single provider.
By eliminating telco bias and providing the enterprise access to a plethora of tools, a telco-independent approach essentially enables every enterprise to pick or build their best possible network solution while unlocking advanced SD-WAN features. Some key features include dynamic multi-path optimization that provides a foundation to address challenges associated with cloud migration, multi-cloud workloads, and adapting to a hybrid workforce.
SD-WAN benefit | How it helps your enterprise |
Cost savings | Reduces network costs due to the use of low-cost internet circuits alongside or instead of expensive MPLS. |
Simplified and secure connectivity | Provides secure connectivity over any (and all) transport layers in the network with a centralized policy and traffic management |
Improved insights and flexibility | Delivers real-time insights into application, network and user performance through centralized monitoring and analytics. |
Centralized management | Enables enterprise-wide configuration, policy enforcement and updates through a single orchestration platform. |
Ability to scale | Simplifies the addition of new sites, users and cloud resources while maintaining consistent performance and security policies. |
Increased network performance | Optimizes application performance by dynamically selecting the best available path based on network conditions, latency, business rules and priorities. |
Optimize your business performance with telco-independent SD-WAN solutions
To be future-ready and achieve higher business outcomes, enterprises today want flexibility, agility, and the ability to tailor-fit solutions to meet their exact business needs. At the same time, rising inflation and macroeconomic headwinds are prompting enterprises across industries, sectors, and geographies to tighten belts and reduce costs.
In today’s cloud-first environment, enterprises need networks that can adapt as quickly as the business. A telco-independent approach provides the flexibility to leverage multiple carriers, avoid vendor lock-in and optimize connectivity based on business requirements. SD-WAN builds on this by delivering centralized management, end-to-end visibility and intelligent traffic optimization across users, applications and locations. Together, these capabilities enable a more agile, resilient and high-performing network. A co-managed approach further strengthens this model by combining internal ownership with specialist expertise, helping organizations accelerate transformation while maintaining control and governance.
Modern enterprises need to build agile, sustainable networks that support global connectivity and hybrid workforces, deliver cost savings, and are customized to network requirements. Luckily, the telco-independent approach ticks all the boxes – and Coevolve can help.
With our telco-independent SD-WAN solution at Coevolve, you can truly optimize the performance of your enterprise network. We partner with you to help you build an agile, scalable network that can effectively handle cloud environments.
Chat with us today to learn more about how Coevolve’s managed, telco-independent SD-WAN solutions can help you meet your enterprise network needs, both now and in the future.
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FAQs
What is SD-WAN?
SD-WAN is transforming how enterprises design and manage modern networks. By applying software-based intelligence to network traffic, SD-WAN enables organizations to optimize connectivity across cloud, SaaS, data centre and branch environments while maintaining consistent performance and visibility.
Through centralized management, real-time analytics and dynamic traffic routing, SD-WAN helps improve application performance, simplify network operations and accelerate the deployment of new sites and services. This enables enterprises to build more agile, scalable and resilient networks that can adapt to evolving business and digital requirements.
What are some key components of our telco-independent SD-WAN solution?
A telco-independent approach truly makes sense for global SD-WAN solutions. You will benefit from the following components:
- ISP Lifecycle Management: A successful SD-WAN implementation starts with a strong foundation of ISP services in the underlay. The optimum mix of connectivity providers at each site is essential to building a successful business case and delivering a high-performance technical solution.
- SD-WAN Overlay: In our integrated SD-WAN solution, we provide an SD-WAN overlay using technology from VMware. This is an industry-leading “pure-play” SD-WAN product that our team has extensive experience in deploying.
- Cloud-Based Security: The Cloud Security layer of our integrated SD-WAN Solution leverages technology from Zscaler to seamlessly and securely connect users to the public internet.
- Management and Analytics: We provide a comprehensive co-managed service that covers all components of our Integrated SD-WAN Solution, led by the Coevolve Response Center.