Say goodbye to lag and expensive hardware. With Connect In Cloud’s SD-WAN solutions, you get secure, high-performance connectivity for every site. It’s the smart upgrade your business needs to save money and eliminate IT headaches.
Whether you’re a growing startup or a nationwide enterprise, SD-WAN makes managing your network a breeze. Imagine controlling all your business locations from one easy-to-use dashboard. At Connect In Cloud, we bring 20+ years of award-winning expertise to the table, ensuring seamless deployment and a smooth transition—without any unexpected downtime (or gray hairs). We also regularly test our providers, so you only get the best of the best.
Traditional WANs are clunky, expensive, and about as flexible as a brick wall. Enter SD-WAN: a sleek, software-driven solution that overlays your existing infrastructure, making network management a walk in the park. With a fully managed service from Connect In Cloud, we take care of everything—from setup to ongoing optimization—so your IT team can focus on more important things.
SD-WAN greatly accelerates application deployment, allowing your business to set up, launch, and utilise applications in a matter of minutes. This rapid deployment, supported by Connect In Cloud, enhances operational efficiency and ensures quicker access to essential tools and services.
Wave goodbye to manual configurations and human error. Connect In Cloud’s SD-WAN automates deployment processes, streamlining network setup and updates. Automated deployment means your IT teams can focus on big-picture issues, like strategic tasks and reliable network performance.
SD-WAN by Connect In Cloud delivers unparalleled network flexibility. It leverages the internet to augment or entirely replace traditional MPLS circuits, supporting any combination of connectivity. This enables you to mix leased lines, broadband, and cellular networks to securely integrate all your private and public cloud connections onto the WAN.
Simplify your branch connectivity with Connect In Cloud. By offering centralised management and automated configurations, we reduce network complexity and boost performance across every site—ensuring your business can scale quickly and efficiently.
Through portal-based automation, Connect In Cloud SD-WAN allows for single, centralised control of network operations and management. Utilising a user-friendly interface, it simplifies configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting whilst enhancing the overall reliability of your network.
Secure your business with Connect In Cloud. Our SD-WAN provides a secure cloud connectivity layer that ensures encrypted data transmission and protection against cyber threats. This enhanced security offers reliable and safe access while maintaining high performance and compliance with regulatory and industry standards.
Connect In Cloud’s SD-WAN solutions will allow your business to:
Stabilise: Eliminate common issues, keep stores operating for longer, identify root causes, deploy the best connectivity available at each store, create store operational independence and improve security.
Standardise: Create a common blueprint, enable zero-touch deployment, have predictable expenditure, centralise security and reduce cost of maintenance.
Optimise: Implement automation, have access to real-time data and reduce 1st line support tickets.
Enhance: Deliver new customer experience requirements, adapt to new challenges and do the unexpected.
Enterprise networks need more than just speed—they need reliability, security, and the ability to scale on demand. That’s where Connect In Cloud’s SD-WAN architecture comes in.
At Connect In Cloud, we design and deploy robust SD-WAN solutions that give large businesses the agility they need to stay ahead. As an accredited Cisco Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN Managed Service Partner, we deliver enterprise-grade networks that:
Prioritize your business-critical applications: Say goodbye to laggy video calls and slow cloud applications. Our SD-WAN intelligently routes traffic for peak performance.
Enhance security at every level: With built-in encryption, next-gen firewalls, and zero-trust access, your data stays protected whether it’s traveling across branches or into the cloud.
Optimize performance with automation: Eliminate manual configurations. Our automated traffic management ensures optimal bandwidth allocation so your network always runs smoothly.
Seamlessly connect hybrid and multi-cloud environments: Whether you’re using AWS, Azure, or private cloud solutions, we ensure seamless connectivity across all platforms.
From global enterprises to fast-growing mid-sized businesses, Connect In Cloud tailors SD-WAN architectures to fit your exact needs—helping you simplify IT operations, cut costs, and future-proof your infrastructure.
Connect In Cloud is an accredited Cisco Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN Managed Service Partner. But that’s not all. Our in-house carrier division allows you to leverage any ISP and carrier to create the best API-driven SD-WAN solution for your infrastructure and geographic coverage.
In other words, wherever your users and apps are located, we connect and secure them in the most cost-effective and performance-optimised way.
Our specialist SD-WAN expertise includes:
Traffic control and security
Dynamic multi-path optimisation and routing
Load balancing and traffic prioritisation
Secure cloud and branch-to-branch connectivity
Automation and orchestration
Bandwidth and end-user experience monitoring
Virtualised security
Avoid the logistical nightmare of complex network rollouts. Connect In Cloud leverages automation to achieve record deployment times, demonstrated by our installation of 640 sites in just over 5 hours for a major retailer.
Our partnership continues well after launch. We provide round-the-clock monitoring, proactive maintenance, and continuous optimization to ensure 24/7 reliability.
Connect In Cloud’s unique API deployment and orchestration methodology automates network deployment, so you can reach your networking ‘destinations’ quicker and at less cost. We recently enabled a major retailer to roll out SD-WAN to 640 sites in just over 5 hours! In total, we enabled over 3,000 wireless access points, 100 cellular gateways, 944 switches, and 700 Meraki MX security and SD-WAN appliances.
We’ll monitor the status, performance, and health of your SD-WAN solution, proactively resolving any incidents and problems. Connect In Cloud handles security threats and remediates incidents the moment they happen. We also keep your environment constantly updated with the latest releases, ensuring it is always tuned to your evolving business, application, and security requirements.
Connect In Cloud will create detailed designs for both overlay and underlay services, including transitions from and interoperability with your current solutions. Once designed, we will migrate your locations and users and take care of the full deployment.
SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) is a network management solution that uses software to control connectivity, management, and services between data centres, remote branches, and cloud instances.
By detaching network hardware from its control mechanism, SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN. Ultimately, SD-WAN enhances performance, reduces costs, and increases flexibility by enabling dynamic path selection and centralised control over network traffic.
Legacy WAN connections are complicated, expensive to maintain, offer low bandwidth, and can be painful to change, in turn halting innovation and growth. SD-WAN is the answer and puts you in control - making it possible to leverage cutting-edge network technologies and easily manage services over a multi-site network.
At Focus Group, we’ll help you plot your path to software-defined ‘everything’ – connecting physical locations, public and private networks, plus cloud environments to enable optimal digital flexibility to your organisational infrastructure.
Our SD-WAN expertise covers traffic control and security, dynamic multi-path optimisation and routing, load balancing and traffic prioritisation, secure cloud and branch-to-branch connectivity, automation and orchestration, end-user-experience monitoring and virtualised security.
SD-WAN allows companies to build higher-performance WANs using lower-cost and commercially available internet access. It enables businesses to partially or wholly replace more expensive, private WAN connection technologies such as MPLS.
Cisco SD-WAN is a highly secure, cloud-scale architecture that is open, programmable and scalable, with integrated capabilities for multi-cloud, security, unified communications and application optimisation – built on a SASE foundation. It’s used to connect data centres, branches, campuses and colocation facilities to improve network speed, security and efficiency.
The main difference between a software-defined network (SDN) and SD-WAN is how they are used. While SDNs address the modern networking needs of managing local area networks (LANs) or operator-managed networks, SD-WANs are used to connect geographically distributed locations and remote users.
SD-WAN has proven to be a flexible, robust and reliable alternative to traditional private network connections. A Cisco SD-WAN doesn't require a backhaul to a data centre, which allows branch offices to connect more easily to the internet. This translates into better performance, lower latency and higher-performing connectivity. In addition to this, business IT support services will constantly monitor for faults in the network, rectifying any issues before they occur.
SD-WAN and VPN both provide secure connections, but SD-WAN offers more advanced features. SD-WAN uses software-defined technology for dynamic path selection, centralised management, and enhanced performance across multiple locations. It optimises traffic and reduces latency. In contrast, VPNs primarily create secure point-to-point connections over the internet without the advanced traffic management and optimisation capabilities an SD-WAN provides.
Unlike traditional router-centric WAN architectures, SD-WAN is designed to fully support applications hosted in on-premises data centres, public or private clouds and SaaS services such as Salesforce.com and Microsoft 365. In a nutshell, SD-WAN delivers the highest levels of application performance and better quality of experience for users. Plus, organisations can instantly deploy the right security in the right place, all from a single dashboard, protecting end users from a multitude of security threats, while safeguarding the business against data exfiltration and insider threats.
SD-WAN architecture allows businesses to leverage any combination of services – including MPLS, LTE and broadband internet services – to securely connect users to applications. The technology centralises network control, creating a network overlay that enables IT to remotely configure, manage, monitor and secure most aspects of the WAN including edge devices and traffic flows.
While SD-WAN optimises and manages network traffic, a firewall provides critical protection against cyber threats by monitoring and controlling incoming and outgoing network traffic based on security rules. Integrating a firewall with SD-WAN ensures comprehensive security, combining optimised performance with robust threat protection and compliance.
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