Managed SD-WAN
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Understanding Managed SD–WAN Adoption
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Secure, agile connectivity that transforms your network performance
As enterprises embrace cloud applications and hybrid workforces, traditional WAN architectures struggle to keep pace. Relying on rigid MPLS lines or unmanaged broadband often leads to poor application performance, security gaps and soaring costs.
GTT Managed SD-WAN evolves your network to meet modern demands. Combine the intelligence of software-defined networking with the power of our global Tier 1 IP backbone. The resulting network is smarter, faster and more cost-effective, giving you total control over your traffic without the operational burden.
When your network holds you back
Legacy networks weren’t built for the cloud era. Organizations often find themselves trapped by infrastructure that is too slow to change and too expensive to maintain.
- Poor application experience: Critical cloud apps like Microsoft Teams or Salesforce suffer from latency and jitter
- Complex management: Juggling different ISPs, hardware and security policies across multiple sites creates administrative chaos
- High costs: Paying for premium MPLS bandwidth for non-critical traffic drains the IT budget
- Security vulnerabilities: Direct internet access at branch offices opens new attack surfaces that are hard to secure
Managed SD-WAN simplifies the complex. We decouple your networking software from the underlying hardware, preventing failover and allowing you to route traffic intelligently and securely across any connection type.
With Managed SD-WAN, you can:
Boost performance: Prioritize critical applications to ensure a seamless user experience
Reduce TCO: Lower costs by leveraging affordable broadband alongside or instead of MPLS
Strengthen security: Integrate robust security features directly into your network edge
Scale rapidly: Deploy new sites in days, not months, with zero-touch provisioning
The GTT difference
The power of a global Tier 1 backbone
SD-WAN providers often rely on the public internet for long-haul transport, where performance is
unpredictable. GTT owns and operates one of the world’s largest global Tier 1 IP backbones.
Without GTT
- Traffic bounces across multiple public networks, increasing latency and packet loss
- No end-to-end SLAs for global application performance
- Unpredictable routing affects real-time applications like voice and video
With GTT
- Your traffic rides our private, low-latency global backbone
- We control the routing from end-to-end, bypassing public internet congestion
- You get the reliability of a private network with the flexibility of SD-WAN
Results
Consistent, high-performance connectivity for all your locations, worldwide.
Technology choice, not lock-in
GTT partners with industry-leading SD-WAN technology vendors—including Fortinet,
HPE Aruba and Palo Alto Networks—to deliver a solution tailored to your specific needs.
Without GTT
- You are forced into a single vendor ecosystem that may not fit your use case
- Limited options for integrating with existing security or LAN infrastructure
With GTT
- We design the optimal solution based on your unique requirements
- Our experts handle the complexity of multi-vendor environments
- You get best-in-breed technology managed by a single partner
Results
A custom-fit network architecture that aligns perfectly with your business goals.
True managed service
Many “managed” services stop at the edge router. GTT takes ownership of the entire
ecosystem, from the underlay connectivity to the overlay software and security policies.
Without GTT
- Your team is stuck troubleshooting ISP outages and configuring router policies
- Finger-pointing between the software vendor and the circuit provider when things break
With GTT
- We manage the underlay (network) and the cloud-based overlay (SD-WAN) as a unified service
- One bill, one contract, and one support team for your entire global network
- Proactive monitoring and management 24/7/365
Results
Your IT team is freed from “keeping the lights on” and can focus on strategic initiatives.
How it works
1
Design
We analyze your applications, traffic patterns and security needs. Our engineers help you select the right technology platform and access types (fiber, broadband, 4G/5G) for each location.
2
Deploy
We handle the logistics of circuit installation and hardware delivery. Using zero-touch provisioning, we bring sites online quickly, applying consistent policies across your entire network instantly.
3
Optimize
Once live, our intelligent routing steers traffic dynamically. If a primary link degrades, the network automatically fails over to the best available path, often without dropping a single packet. You gain full visibility via our portal to monitor performance in real-time.
Our Secure Networking portfolio
SASE: Secure Connect
Enable secure and controlled access to applications from anywhere.
Cloud Security
Optimizing your services to meet your changing business requirements.
Network Security & Operations
Don’t let today’s cyber threats put your business at risk.
Secure Remote Access
Strengthen remote access and prevent unauthorized intrusion with identity- and permissions-based authentication policies.
FAQs
Don’t let your questions stand in the way of network transformation. Here are a few answers to your common questions about Managed SD-WAN Services.
What is SD-WAN?
Imagine your software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) as a team of superhuman network administrators who never sleep. They monitor every network element 24 hours a day and fix problems before users even notice an outage. Because SD-WAN monitors and automates more day-to-day tasks, your IT team is free to focus on the challenges that matter most to your business.
In other words, SD-WAN is an application that monitors and controls your network from a high level. From one single dashboard, you can:
- Measure network performance
- Detect changing network conditions
- Dynamically optimize network utilization
SD-WAN lets you mitigate problems like latency, packet loss, and jitter by adjusting application and quality of service priorities down to the branch and individual user levels. You can also route data across any available transport type (such as broadband internet, MPLS, 4G/LTE) at any point in time while maintaining uniform reliability and security.
Once the SD-WAN solution is deployed correctly, you can do these tasks automatically. In other words, SD-WAN’s intelligent software will adapt to your network’s capabilities in real time.
SD-WAN vs. MPLS: Which is best?
The “SD-WAN vs. MPLS” myth! Our customers often ask us about choosing between SD-WAN and MPLS. The myth is that you have to choose between them.
SD-WAN is not an access type. It’s a software layer that resides on your network. It provides visibility and control over network components, which may include MPLS.
So, why are some people claiming that SD-WAN will replace MPLS? The reason is that for the first time, SD-WAN makes enterprise-level reliability possible using other types of circuits.
The cost of MPLS has always been the unavoidable price of delivering security and reliability to the enterprise network. But with a well-designed SD-WAN, there are now more ways to achieve the same level of reliability or better.
Let’s look at the numbers. MPLS can deliver three 9s of reliability, compared to just one 9 for the typical broadband circuit. But SD-WAN options can get you even higher reliability.
Broadband:
- Meantime between failure (hours): 200
- Meantime to Repair: 4 hours
- Availability: 98.040%
- Avg. Downtime/Month: 14.3 hours
MPLS:
- Meantime between failure (hours): 2,000
- Meantime to Repair: 2 hours
- Availability: 99.900%
- Avg. Downtime/Month: 0.73 hours
2x Broadband with SD-WAN:
- Meantime between failure (hours): 5,000
- Meantime to Repair: 2 hours
- Availability: 99.962%
- Avg. Downtime/Month: 0.28 hours
High-Performance SD-WAN
- Meantime to Repair: 2 hours
- Availability: 99.998%
- Avg. Downtime/Month: 0.01 hours
This demonstrates that an SD-WAN with multiple broadband lines can actually deliver significantly less downtime than a single MPLS circuit. And the encryption added by SD-WAN adds needed privacy to those otherwise-public broadband connections.
That number only increases with more routes—reliability increases with two broadband and one 4G/LTE line, or by adding secondary circuits to your MPLS network, for unprecedented reliability at your most critical locations. The bottom line? SD-WAN can include MPLS, but it can also help you outperform it (not to mention, at a much lower TCO).
What is the cost of managed SD-WAN services?
The total cost will depend on the level of service you’re looking for. Talk to a GTT SD-WAN Expert to learn more about managed SD-WAN solution costs and benefits.
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