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A Mega-Scale Retailer was looking to test out SD-WAN solutions to drive ROI from MPLS circuit savings with their ISPs. They were prevented from doing so, however, due to the time and costs associated with procuring and staging a test environment in addition to constraints on their IT staff. A proof of concept (POC) to compare leading SD-WAN vendors likely would have taken the customer 6-12 months to execute on their own.
The Retailer turned to WWT and the capabilities of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) Lab Services Team to execute a POC that compared the features and functionality of SD-WAN solutions from four vendors to accelerate their decision-making process.
SD-WAN solutions from the targeted vendors needed to show how easily traffic could be recognized and segmented into business critical and non-business critical data. More importantly, the SD-WAN solution needed to be easily configurable for steering of this critical and non-critical data over MPLS connections and internet connections.
In addition to ATC Lab Services, WWT provided knowledge and maturity around the methodology and process of the lab program in the ATC to effectively manage vendors. The ATC Lab Services Team was viewed by the Retailer as a trusted advisor through each phase of the lab with the different SD-WAN vendor solutions.
Technical SD-WAN use cases tested in the ATC Lab:
Specific SD-WAN test cases followed:
Specific devices under test:
Testing tools used:
ATC lab diagram