IS YOUR EXISTING PROVIDER SLOW TO RESPOND, DID NOT LIVE UP TO EXPECTATIONS OR IS TECHNICALLY NOT AS CAPABLE AS YOU WOULD LIKE? – IT’S NEVER BEEN EASIER TO CHANGE
If your SD-WAN solution is coming up for renewal, your solution, including configurations and technologies used, and service levels delivered, may be in desperate need of a revamp. Our multi-vendor SDWAN RENEW service ensures your renewed solution is up-to-date, future-proof and provided at the best commercial and service levels – without taking up your time and resources
Common problems we see every day
As an early adopter of SD-WAN, your solution may not be suitable now, 3-5 years after implementation. And you are not alone – we see these problems with ready-for-renewal solutions every day:
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- outdated vendor technologies or versions,
- using expensive connectivity,
- using obsolete hardware,
- incorrect solution design and configuration
- limited provider support and management
We can help you fix all of the above
“The first thing you may want to know is what’s in it for me? That’s easy – you get a fit-for-purpose, future-proof solution renewal provided to you at the best possible cost, with a quick turn-around and without you having to do very much at all – it’s all done for you by a team that knows what they are doing. POCs shouldn’t take months, quotes shouldn’t take weeks – You should not have to accept below par or reactive service, delayed implementation and poor solution and account management”Â
Anthony Senter, CEO and Subject Matter Expert
OUR SOLUTIONS ARE BACKED BY IMPECCABLE TESTIMONIALS FROM CUSTOMERS & PARTNERSÂ THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO
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WHAT OUR SPECIALIST SDWAN RENEW SERVICE COVERS
You don’t need to spend the time or the money meeting with new suppliers, or upskilling yourself on the latest technologies – leave it all to us. We deliver a full renewal proposal and renewal quotation covering the points below
- Network performance
- Scalability & Flexibility
- Security Integrations
- Cost savings
- Cloud compatibility
- Application performance
- Management options
- Integration with new or additional infrastructure or systems
- Vendor support
- Connectivity technologies
- Traffic shaping and prioritization
- WAN optimization
- Data assurance integration
- High availability and redundancy
- Reporting and analytics
- Remote working integration
- Vendor ecosystem
- Licensing model
- Compliance
- Future-proofing
- Finance options
- 3rd Party integrations
- 24 x 7 x 365 support options
For full details about the 23 focus points above, download the SDWAN RENEW WHITEPAPER: 23 FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN RENEWING YOUR SD-WAN OR SASE SOLUTION, including a complimentary SDWAN CONSULT workshop voucher and provider comparison sheet by filling in your details below
GRAB YOUR COMPLIMENTARY SDWAN CONSULT WORKSHOP NOW
LIMITED OFFER: Fill in your details to be directed to the SDWAN RENEW white paper download page and receive your complimentary SDWAN CONSULT workshop voucher (worth £2,500) – entitling you to an exclusive SD-WAN and SASE / SSE workshop in the SDWAN and SASE Solutions Metaverse office, with at least one of our MEF-certified SD-WAN SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS. The workshop includes access to SDWAN ASSIST – the world’s only 100% online SD-WAN and SASE solution design tool.
SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE – HOW DOES YOUR PROVIDER COMPARE?
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| # | Supplier Competency | SDWAN SOLUTIONS | Your Provider | Why it's important to you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Certified SD-WAN Subject Matter Experts (We're DOUBLE accredited) | 2 | The provider should have the experience, knowledge, official certifications and the respect in the industry behind them to be properly considered subject matter experts | |
| 2 | SD-WAN vendor certifications | 35+ | The provider must fully understand their own services and solutions as well as other vendor solutions to be able to propose the best possible solution to you | |
| 3 | Solutions designed to suit customer requirements | YES | There is not a single off the shelf solution that is suitable for everyone - your requirements are unique to your business and your network solution needs to satisfy these requirements | |
| 4 | Only offers True SD-WAN technologies and solutions from certified and tested vendors | YES | Some vendor solutions are SD-WAN in name only and do not offer the functionality that true SD-WAN delivers | |
| 5 | Proven SD-WAN vendor technologies | 9 | The provider aligns your business requirements to the most suited SD-WAN vendor technology, not to the only one on offer | |
| 6 | World leading Security vendor technologies | 4 | Your business needs to be protected by the best security available, and your provider should have the ability to change security provider without changing SD-WAN vendor or replacing hardware | |
| 7 | Connectivity providers | 1953 | Network provider choice ensures every site has the best available connectivity installed to maximise resilience, redundancy and performance and is not dependant on a single provider | |
| 8 | Universal CPE hardware with VNF capability | YES | Universal CPE ensures that SD-WAN and security software are not tied to the hardware, allowing you change elements without replacing the hardware. Running multiple applications on a single device reduces cost and management | |
| 9 | 24 x 7 x 365 support | YES | The provider and their support experts should be available to you 24 x 7 x 365 | |
| 10 | Number of Access technologies available | 6 | The provider ensures all of your sites have access to all available connectivity options at all times, without limitation | |
| 11 | UK, EU and APAC Headquarters | YES | The provider is able to support business requirements locally and globally without restriction | |
| 12 | Countries where local field engineers are available | 190 | You have access to your provider's field engineer services across the globe, in your local language | |
| 13 | Number of countries where solutions can be deployed, managed and supported | 190 | Solutions should not be limited to specific countries or regions, now and in the future. Ensures a single global solution and increased performance, reduced cost and centralised management | |
| 14 | Mix and Match solution components | YES | Best in class technology vendors make up your solution - You are not forced to settle for a single vendor suite of products when you only want one element | |
| 15 | Number of installation options available to customers | 3 | Installation options should be available to suit your requirements or preferences | |
| 16 | Number of management options available | 3 | Management options should be available to suit your requirements or preferences | |
| 17 | Short term connectivity contracts available | YES | Ensures no contractual tie in for technologies that may become out-dated during your contract | |
| 18 | SASE Options | YES | The provider offers integrated security options, either on the physical edge device or supplied via Cloud as part of a tailored solution design, deployment and management | |
| 19 | Access to SDWAN Cloud, in 50 locations globally | YES | Allows seamless access to every IaaS, SaaS, private Cloud and public Cloud instance as well as connection to nearly 700 global DC locations on a PAYU, as part of your SD-WAN solution. Also enables you to operate separate SD-WAN vendor solutions in a single network, particularly relevant during acquisitions and mergers. | |
| 20 | Simple Multi-Cloud Access | YES | Access to multiple Cloud instances for resilience and redundancy as standard with your SD-WAN solution. | |
| 21 | Online solution design option | YES | Convenient, tailored multi-vendor solution design, at your own time and pace, without having to physically meet with dozens of suppliers, could save you months of investigation | |
| 22 | Enhanced layer 4 encryption is available as an option | YES | The option of including enhanced layer 4 encryption so that your traffic remains completely invisible even to the SD-WAN provider - suitable for MOD, Govt and financial organisations | |
| 23 | Solution Re-Tech guarantee | YES | Keeps your solution as technically optimised as possible, through-out the contract, replacing technologies as and when new options become available. | |
| 24 | Seamless multi-vendor solution integration | YES | The provider can support different SD-WAN vendor solutions and allows seamless communication between them when mergers and acquisitions result in different provider networks | |
| 25 | Complete suite of SD-WAN and SaSe services | YES | The provider offers every possible SD-WAN related professional service including consultancy, to design, POC, implementation, management, expansion, consolidation, RFP process and many more | |
| 26 | 100% focus on SD-WAN and SaSe | YES | The provider offers focused attention and expertise on SD-WAN and SaSe technology - not a jack of all trades | |
| 27 | Multi-Award winning company | YES | The provider has earned Industry and peer recognition for SD-WAN and SASE products and services | |
| 28 | Engineer-As-A-Service | YES | The provider has the ability to supply engineering resource where you do not have IT teams, in 190 countries world-wide | |
| 29 | Deployment-As-a-Service | YES | The provider has the ability to deploy services and solutions for you, where you do not have IT teams, in 190 countries world-wide | |
| 30 | Proof of Concept trials | YES | The provider is able to demonstrate the solutions and technologies within your live environment , thereby proving real-time capabilities and benefits | |
| 31 | Research and Development laboratory | YES | The provider has the ability to test the proposed solution, in a live simulation environment, before POC or deployment | |
| 32 | SD-WAN vendor training for customers | YES | As part of your solution, the provider ensures that you become confident and certified in the vendor technology, important for co-managed and self-managed solutions | |
| 33 | Solution Co-management option | YES | The provider allows you to make changes to your network, once certified, as and when you need to, knowing that the provider is available 24 x 7 to make these changes for you also. | |
| 34 | Orchestrator-As-A-Service | YES | The provider is able to host and manage the solution orchestrator as part of your solution | |
| 35 | SD-WAN functionality testing process | YES | The provider ensures and confirms that the SD-WAN technology is suitable and will provide the expected benefits accordingly, with no surprises | |
| 36 | Application enhancement | YES | The provider designs the solution around application requirements and performance to boost business productivity | |
| 37 | Is able to utilise satellite as a connectivity option | YES | The provider is able to use satellite connectivity successfully in conjunction with lower latency connections, | |
| 38 | Solutions scalable to thousands of edge devices | YES | No limitation on the number of edge devices that can be installed as part of a larger deployment | |
| 39 | Physical and virtual appliances are available | YES | The solution is able to run on physical and virtual appliances, or a mixture of both | |
| 40 | Solution provides per packet traffic steering | YES | The provider solution reacts sub second to changes in conditions and applications are NOT pinned to links requiring them to failover to secondary links | |
| 41 | Project management | YES | The provider has experienced PM services available for your solution deployment | |
| 42 | PAYU access to over 900 global DC locations | YES | The provider solution enables you to connect to global DC locations and only pay for the bandwidth you use, as part of your SD-WAN solution. No need to maintain point to point links globally | |
| 43 | 4G private APN network option | YES | The provider solution separates your traffic from consumer LTE networks in congested areas | |
| 44 | OPEX or As-A-Service pricing model | YES | The provider offers zero installation fees with a set monthly payment option | |
| 45 | Full account management with quarterly reviews | YES | Your account is fully managed with a single point of contact, by the provider | |
| 46 | Clear escalation path | YES | Complete escalation path for 24 x 7 support right through to CTO and CEO level | |
| 47 | Free of charge Proof of Concept | YES | The provider does not charge a fee or cost for the POC | |
| 48 | Sub-second failover after link failure | YES | The provider ensures that your solution reacts sub-second to link failure or link brownout, preventing dropped calls etc | |
| 49 | Independent solution advice, always | YES | You receive the best solution for your requirements, and not the only solution that your provider can supply | |
| 50 | SD-WAN and / or Security components can be replaced without replacing the hardware | YES | Change SD-WAN or security without replacing the hardware as is the case with a single provider SaSe | |
| 51 | All available bandwidth is used within a solution | YES | The provider solution makes use of all installed connectivity ensuring that secondary lines are used and not sitting idle, waiting for a main link failure. | |
| 52 | LTE can be used as a main connection technology | YES | Some providers only permit the use of LTE services as a link of last resort or as a dedicated back-up solution, thereby limiting your connectivity choices | |
| 53 | Seamless integration with 3rd party software and services, often on a single device | YES | The provider should be able to enhance your solution and security with seamless, non-disruptive integration with 3rd party services without needing to replace hardware or add additional hardware. | |
| 54 | Optional Data Assurance | YES | The provider should be able to Include Layer 4 encryption to secure your data, even during transit, making your sensitive data worthless to any cyber-criminal | |
| 55 | IOT device enhanced integration | YES | The provider can ensure that your IOT devices are intelligently connected and protected, and integrated into your network and security environment, regardless of where they are located |
| # | Supplier Competency | SDWAN SOLUTIONS | Your Provider | Why it's important to you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Certified SD-WAN Subject Matter Experts (We're DOUBLE accredited) | 2 | The provider should have the experience, knowledge, official certifications and the respect in the industry behind them to be properly considered subject matter experts | |
| 2 | SD-WAN vendor certifications | 35+ | The provider must fully understand their own services and solutions as well as other vendor solutions to be able to propose the best possible solution to you | |
| 3 | Solutions designed to suit customer requirements | YES | There is not a single off the shelf solution that is suitable for everyone - your requirements are unique to your business and your network solution needs to satisfy these requirements | |
| 4 | Only offers True SD-WAN technologies and solutions from certified and tested vendors | YES | Some vendor solutions are SD-WAN in name only and do not offer the functionality that true SD-WAN delivers | |
| 5 | Proven SD-WAN vendor technologies | 9 | The provider aligns your business requirements to the most suited SD-WAN vendor technology, not to the only one on offer | |
| 6 | World leading Security vendor technologies | 4 | Your business needs to be protected by the best security available, and your provider should have the ability to change security provider without changing SD-WAN vendor or replacing hardware | |
| 7 | Connectivity providers | 1953 | Network provider choice ensures every site has the best available connectivity installed to maximise resilience, redundancy and performance and is not dependant on a single provider | |
| 8 | Universal CPE hardware with VNF capability | YES | Universal CPE ensures that SD-WAN and security software are not tied to the hardware, allowing you change elements without replacing the hardware. Running multiple applications on a single device reduces cost and management | |
| 9 | 24 x 7 x 365 support | YES | The provider and their support experts should be available to you 24 x 7 x 365 | |
| 10 | Number of Access technologies available | 6 | The provider ensures all of your sites have access to all available connectivity options at all times, without limitation | |
| 11 | UK, EU and APAC Headquarters | YES | The provider is able to support business requirements locally and globally without restriction | |
| 12 | Countries where local field engineers are available | 190 | You have access to your provider's field engineer services across the globe, in your local language | |
| 13 | Number of countries where solutions can be deployed, managed and supported | 190 | Solutions should not be limited to specific countries or regions, now and in the future. Ensures a single global solution and increased performance, reduced cost and centralised management | |
| 14 | Mix and Match solution components | YES | Best in class technology vendors make up your solution - You are not forced to settle for a single vendor suite of products when you only want one element | |
| 15 | Number of installation options available to customers | 3 | Installation options should be available to suit your requirements or preferences | |
| 16 | Number of management options available | 3 | Management options should be available to suit your requirements or preferences | |
| 17 | Short term connectivity contracts available | YES | Ensures no contractual tie in for technologies that may become out-dated during your contract | |
| 18 | SASE Options | YES | The provider offers integrated security options, either on the physical edge device or supplied via Cloud as part of a tailored solution design, deployment and management | |
| 19 | Access to SDWAN Cloud, in 50 locations globally | YES | Allows seamless access to every IaaS, SaaS, private Cloud and public Cloud instance as well as connection to nearly 700 global DC locations on a PAYU, as part of your SD-WAN solution. Also enables you to operate separate SD-WAN vendor solutions in a single network, particularly relevant during acquisitions and mergers. | |
| 20 | Simple Multi-Cloud Access | YES | Access to multiple Cloud instances for resilience and redundancy as standard with your SD-WAN solution. | |
| 21 | Online solution design option | YES | Convenient, tailored multi-vendor solution design, at your own time and pace, without having to physically meet with dozens of suppliers, could save you months of investigation | |
| 22 | Enhanced layer 4 encryption is available as an option | YES | The option of including enhanced layer 4 encryption so that your traffic remains completely invisible even to the SD-WAN provider - suitable for MOD, Govt and financial organisations | |
| 23 | Solution Re-Tech guarantee | YES | Keeps your solution as technically optimised as possible, through-out the contract, replacing technologies as and when new options become available. | |
| 24 | Seamless multi-vendor solution integration | YES | The provider can support different SD-WAN vendor solutions and allows seamless communication between them when mergers and acquisitions result in different provider networks | |
| 25 | Complete suite of SD-WAN and SaSe services | YES | The provider offers every possible SD-WAN related professional service including consultancy, to design, POC, implementation, management, expansion, consolidation, RFP process and many more | |
| 26 | 100% focus on SD-WAN and SaSe | YES | The provider offers focused attention and expertise on SD-WAN and SaSe technology - not a jack of all trades | |
| 27 | Multi-Award winning company | YES | The provider has earned Industry and peer recognition for SD-WAN and SASE products and services | |
| 28 | Engineer-As-A-Service | YES | The provider has the ability to supply engineering resource where you do not have IT teams, in 190 countries world-wide | |
| 29 | Deployment-As-a-Service | YES | The provider has the ability to deploy services and solutions for you, where you do not have IT teams, in 190 countries world-wide | |
| 30 | Proof of Concept trials | YES | The provider is able to demonstrate the solutions and technologies within your live environment , thereby proving real-time capabilities and benefits | |
| 31 | Research and Development laboratory | YES | The provider has the ability to test the proposed solution, in a live simulation environment, before POC or deployment | |
| 32 | SD-WAN vendor training for customers | YES | As part of your solution, the provider ensures that you become confident and certified in the vendor technology, important for co-managed and self-managed solutions | |
| 33 | Solution Co-management option | YES | The provider allows you to make changes to your network, once certified, as and when you need to, knowing that the provider is available 24 x 7 to make these changes for you also. | |
| 34 | Orchestrator-As-A-Service | YES | The provider is able to host and manage the solution orchestrator as part of your solution | |
| 35 | SD-WAN functionality testing process | YES | The provider ensures and confirms that the SD-WAN technology is suitable and will provide the expected benefits accordingly, with no surprises | |
| 36 | Application enhancement | YES | The provider designs the solution around application requirements and performance to boost business productivity | |
| 37 | Is able to utilise satellite as a connectivity option | YES | The provider is able to use satellite connectivity successfully in conjunction with lower latency connections, | |
| 38 | Solutions scalable to thousands of edge devices | YES | No limitation on the number of edge devices that can be installed as part of a larger deployment | |
| 39 | Physical and virtual appliances are available | YES | The solution is able to run on physical and virtual appliances, or a mixture of both | |
| 40 | Solution provides per packet traffic steering | YES | The provider solution reacts sub second to changes in conditions and applications are NOT pinned to links requiring them to failover to secondary links | |
| 41 | Project management | YES | The provider has experienced PM services available for your solution deployment | |
| 42 | PAYU access to over 900 global DC locations | YES | The provider solution enables you to connect to global DC locations and only pay for the bandwidth you use, as part of your SD-WAN solution. No need to maintain point to point links globally | |
| 43 | 4G private APN network option | YES | The provider solution separates your traffic from consumer LTE networks in congested areas | |
| 44 | OPEX or As-A-Service pricing model | YES | The provider offers zero installation fees with a set monthly payment option | |
| 45 | Full account management with quarterly reviews | YES | Your account is fully managed with a single point of contact, by the provider | |
| 46 | Clear escalation path | YES | Complete escalation path for 24 x 7 support right through to CTO and CEO level | |
| 47 | Free of charge Proof of Concept | YES | The provider does not charge a fee or cost for the POC | |
| 48 | Sub-second failover after link failure | YES | The provider ensures that your solution reacts sub-second to link failure or link brownout, preventing dropped calls etc | |
| 49 | Independent solution advice, always | YES | You receive the best solution for your requirements, and not the only solution that your provider can supply | |
| 50 | SD-WAN and / or Security components can be replaced without replacing the hardware | YES | Change SD-WAN or security without replacing the hardware as is the case with a single provider SaSe | |
| 51 | All available bandwidth is used within a solution | YES | The provider solution makes use of all installed connectivity ensuring that secondary lines are used and not sitting idle, waiting for a main link failure. | |
| 52 | LTE can be used as a main connection technology | YES | Some providers only permit the use of LTE services as a link of last resort or as a dedicated back-up solution, thereby limiting your connectivity choices | |
| 53 | Seamless integration with 3rd party software and services, often on a single device | YES | The provider should be able to enhance your solution and security with seamless, non-disruptive integration with 3rd party services without needing to replace hardware or add additional hardware. | |
| 54 | Optional Data Assurance | YES | The provider should be able to Include Layer 4 encryption to secure your data, even during transit, making your sensitive data worthless to any cyber-criminal | |
| 55 | IOT device enhanced integration | YES | The provider can ensure that your IOT devices are intelligently connected and protected, and integrated into your network and security environment, regardless of where they are located |