How Partners and MSSPS Can Help Customers Through SD-WAN and SD-Branch Deployment

As network evolution accelerates across organizations, it is up to Fortinet partners and MSSPs to guide their customers through the deployment of SD-WAN and SD-Branch solutions. For both enterprises and small and midsize businesses, network evolution has been accelerated through the adoption of cloud-first strategies. This network expansion often happens slowly, without centralized control or secure oversight. In some cases, however, these networks develop quickly, driven by new cloud-enabled strategies such as bring-your-own-device (BYOD), the internet of things (IoT), and software as a service (SaaS). Such rapid expansion generally causes networks to suffer from less centralized control and security oversight.

As employees seek out the tools and services necessary to stay competitive in the modern digital economy, the rate at which these technologies are being added to your customers’ networks is noteworthy. With this new technology, network traffic increases can be significant, and oftentimes the legacy architectures that exist within the network simply cannot handle the new need for bandwidth. To account for modern, latency-sensitive systems, traditional strategies for handling traffic–like multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)–must be revised to deliver the performance that today’s digital business environments entry level computer science jobs.

As they face network expansion, your customers must not underestimate the role of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and SD-branch solutions. It is expensive to upgrade traditional MPLS systems, and, even when upgraded, these devices do little to simplify operations. For this reason, your customers need an affordable way to update and secure their evolving and distributed networks while also streamlining operations, visibility, and control. Your customers need SD-WAN.