SD-WAN for The Cloud
Bigleaf SD-WAN optimizes business Internet for access to Cloud applications like VoIP, VDI and SaaS. We connect our customers through a plug-and-play router at their office to gateway clusters in the Cloud, providing end-to-end visibility and control. The end result gives your customers:
- Intelligent load-balancing across up to 4 connections from different Providers
- Bi-directional QoS capability over coax, DSL, wireless – any Internet circuit
- Same IP failover of traffic between circuits without dropping the session
- Real-time App Site metrics on packet loss, latency, jitter, throughput and usage
Bigleaf’s SD-WAN solution is perfect for small, mid-sized and distributed-Enterprise customers that rely on Cloud applications to run their business.
Specific focus areas for positioning Bigleaf:
- Anytime you need QoS and Same IP failover over to ensure that critical Cloud applications are prioritized and stay live, regardless of issues with the underlying internet connections.
- Customer pain today – VoIP call quality issues, challenges with BGP deployment, Virtual Desktop issues
- Deploy Bigleaf to immediately fix these issues.
- MPLS replacement – As customers move their key applications out to the Cloud, their site-to-site connectivity needs are diminishing. Given the high expense and limited scalability of MPLS, many customers are turning to a VPN architecture to address their remaining site-to-site connectivity needs. With Bigleaf’s SD-WAN optimization, we can direct and control the customer’s VPN traffic to provide a previously-un-achievable level of VPN stability and performance. Bigleaf’s system will:
- Ensure the customer’s VPN rides the most stable ISP connection
- Failover the VPN tunnels when necessary without dropping the VPN sessions
- Prioritize the VPN tunnel traffic above other bulk traffic (like YouTube videos or large file transfers)
- Prioritize the VPN tunnel traffic above other bulk traffic (like YouTube videos or large file transfers)
- Cloud Migration Strategy Discussion
- Introducing Bigleaf to your customer is much more than a single product opportunity. Use Bigleaf as the catalyst to begin a proactive Cloud Migration Strategy discussion with your customer.
- “The cloud is only as good as your connection.”
- Bigleaf serves as the foundation for a smart cloud migration strategy.
- With Bigleaf deployed, your customer’s comfort zone for Cloud Apps will broaden, and so will your opportunity set for add-on sales down the road.
- Single Circuit customer leveraging Cloud Apps. Bigleaf will provide:
- QoS to prioritize voice and other latency-sensitive traffic.
- Bigleaf App Site intelligence for metrics on packet loss, latency, jitter and throughput.
- True plug & play functionality for future circuit additions (no need for IP address changes).
- Customer with primary/backup configuration
- Get more out of a 2nd connection than just backup –why pay for a service you hope to never use?
How Bigleaf Compares with other SD-WAN vendors
Bigleaf is the leading Provider of SD-WAN services for the Cloud due to several unique features:
- Outside the firewall
- Bigleaf’s onsite router drops in seamlessly outside the customer’s existing firewall, so there’s no need to rip out and replace their current trusted firewalls, or change their current security story.
- Cloud Gateways
- While most SD-WAN providers are focused on site-to-site connectivity, Bigleaf tunnels all of the customer’s Internet traffic out to Gateway Clusters that are located in major peering centers around the country. This gives us end-to-end management and control over the customer’s Internet traffic, enabling us to intelligently prioritize and failover Cloud-based applications.
- Plug-and Play
- Easy, self-install averaging 10 minutes.
- Dynamic QoS
- Patent-pending QoS system that responds in real-time to variable throughput circuits (like coax) to eliminate packet loss in the carrier’s core routers.
