If your organization is forced to rely on multiple providers for your network and telecommunications needs, it can be difficult to manage these services and solutions
When issues arise with your service, it can be difficult to identify the correct provider to address these problems since there are often many providers to manage.
Additionally, if your organization is experiencing poor network performance, it will lead to increased downtime adversely affecting productivity, often resulting in lost customers and revenue.
Since most organizations require a reliable network connection to perform daily work tasks, it can lead to a decrease in productivity when your network is performing poorly.
Because of this, it is important to understand the benefits of consolidating providers and prioritizing network performance to avoid decreased productivity and the consequences that your organization will face as a result.
For this reason, it is important to understand how SD-WAN will help with bandwidth aggregation to determine whether it can help you improve network performance and connectivity.
Coeo understands how important vendor consolidation, reliable network performance, and network uptime are and has delivered thousands of SD-WAN solutions to organizations to consolidate vendors, improve their network performance, and increase network uptime.
By the end of this article, you will understand what SD-WAN is, what bandwidth aggregation is, the benefits of using SD-WAN to help with bandwidth aggregation, and whether it is right for your organization.
What is SD-WAN?
SD-WAN is an overlay network that is built on top of underlying network connections via fiber, LTE, or broadband.
SD-WAN is carrier agnostic so it can be leveraged using any number of underlying providers no matter who your internet provider is.
SD-WAN appliances continuously monitor the availability and performance of each network connection and choose the most efficient and secure network to send data. This enables your data to be received or sent as quickly and as securely as possible.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about how SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
What is bandwidth aggregation?
Bandwidth aggregation takes place when an aggregator leases infrastructure from underlying carrier partners to deliver internet services to a client.
If your organization has multiple locations, you may have different vendors providing internet connections at each site making it difficult to manage especially when issues arise with the service.
Bandwidth aggregation enables you to source your internet at every site from a single provider for all your connections.
A bandwidth aggregator can provide a host of different internet service types while maintaining redundancy at the site level. Some examples of internet service types include cable, copper/DSL, cellular, fiber, and fixed wireless.
Bandwidth aggregation enables your organization to deal with one provider regardless of where your locations are and who the available infrastructure providers are.
This eliminates the need to utilize multiple providers resulting in better efficiencies when troubleshooting service and billing issues, and results in faster resolutions to problems when they arise.
How SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation
Bandwidth aggregation can help organizations eliminate vendor sprawl and provide consolidation for easier management and better network performance. Implementing an SD-WAN solution can help with bandwidth aggregation in multiple ways including:
Vendor consolidation
As mentioned previously, vendor consolidation is an important feature of bandwidth aggregation that enables organizations to move from having multiple vendors and service providers to only having a single provider.
This improves the management of these solutions by providing you with a single point of contact when there are issues that arise. This results in faster resolution since only one vendor must be contacted.
Implementing an SD-WAN solution can eliminate the need for multiple vendors and helps with bandwidth aggregation by enabling your organization to receive all of your network services from one provider.
Improved network performance
Another way that SD-WAN can help with bandwidth aggregation is by improving network performance. SD-WAN eliminates the need for additional providers and by consolidating down to one provider, it will result in improved network performance.
Relying on network and phone services from multiple providers can result in performance issues because the different providers may not be able to integrate well.
SD-WAN enables you to consolidate into one provider which will help improve the performance of these services since they are being managed by a single provider.
Is SD-WAN a good choice to help with bandwidth aggregation?
Now you understand what SD-WAN is, what bandwidth aggregation is, and how SD-WAN can help with bandwidth aggregation. However, it is also important to understand whether SD-WAN is a good choice for your organization to help with bandwidth aggregation.
If your organization is looking to eliminate vendor sprawl by consolidating with a single provider, implementing an SD-WAN solution to help with bandwidth aggregation may be right for your organization.
Additionally, if your organization is dealing with network performance or service issues as a result of having too many network providers, using SD-WAN to help with bandwidth aggregation may be the right solution.
However, if your organization does not struggle with vendor management or network performance problems, SD-WAN or bandwidth aggregation may not benefit your organization.
Additionally, if your organization is looking to implement bandwidth aggregation but is looking to improve network security more than network performance, a SASE solution may be a better choice for your organization.
Determining if SD-WAN is the right solution to help your organization with bandwidth aggregation
Now you understand what SD-WAN is, what bandwidth aggregation is, how SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation, and whether it is the right solution for your organization.
This information will help determine if implementing SD-WAN is the right solution to help your organization with bandwidth aggregation.
No organization benefits from having multiple providers for their network infrastructure. This often results in poor network management which can lead to poor network performance as well as security vulnerabilities.
For this reason, it is important to understand how SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation so you can determine whether the solution will help solve these issues your organization may be experiencing.
Coeo understands how important vendor management, network management, and network performance are and has delivered SD-WAN solutions to thousands of organizations to eliminate vendor sprawl by consolidating services with one vendor thereby improving network security and performance.
We want you to understand how SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation so you can determine whether it is the right solution for your organization.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about how SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
Now that you understand how SD-WAN helps with bandwidth aggregation, check out this article on how SD-WAN can help with vendor management:
