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Ready or not:
It’s up to your SD-WAN.
You have a long-distance relationship with multiple clouds and pieces of your network, and that makes it hard to maintain the performance and security you need. What would happen if you could connect everything? Here’s what a day looks like with and without a connected, unified multicloud network.
With Cisco SD-WAN
Without Cisco SD-WAN
Out like a light
You’re deep in REM. Security nightmares? None. Cisco SD-WAN has your back. And your edge. And your core.
You have the right security at the right place, from user to application. That means no bed bugs allowed.
4.6 hours
until Cisco detects threats on our network¹
Burning the candle at both ends
Are you blissfully catching zzzzzz’s? No. You’re awake, stressing over how many threats might be eating away at your network right now.
197 days
until the average company detects threats²
Without Cisco SD-WAN
Burning the candle
at both ends
Are you blissfully catching zzzzzz’s? No. You’re awake, stressing over how many threats might be eating away at your network right now.
A+ application performance
Enjoy a cup of coffee and a breakfast sandwich—your applications are running like clockwork, even with the explosive growth in WAN traffic.
Cisco SD-WAN isn’t just about increasing bandwidth. It dynamically steers traffic around network problems for optimal delivery of business applications. All while simplifying and securing your multicloud management.
5x improvement
in Office 365 performance for a healthcare company using Cisco SD-WAN3
Needs improvement
Your morning is an inbox full of notifications: Applications are running slowly, and you have bandwidth bottlenecks. Congestion, high-latency connections, failed links—while cloud-based applications are key, without the right network fabric, they complicate performance. Looks like your breakfast will have to wait.
>9% impact
on revenue due to application
performance issues4
With Cisco SD-WAN
A+ application performance
Enjoy a cup of coffee and a breakfast sandwich—your applications are running like clockwork, even with the explosive growth in WAN traffic.
Cisco SD-WAN isn’t just about increasing bandwidth. It dynamically steers traffic around network problems for optimal delivery of business applications. All while simplifying and securing your multicloud management.
5x improvement
in Office 365 performance for a healthcare company using Cisco SD-WAN³
Without Cisco SD-WAN
Needs improvement
Your morning is an inbox full of notifications: Applications are running slowly and you have bandwidth bottlenecks. Congestion, high-latency connections, failed links—while cloud-based applications are key, without the right network fabric, they complicate performance. Looks like your breakfast will have to wait.
2-day deployment
Policy changes? Easy peasy. On a global scale? Thumbs up. You have centralized management and visibility. This means you can globally deploy and enforce policy in real time at the application level.
$20 million
reduction in OpEx over three years for one retailer using Cisco SD‑WAN5
6-month deployment
About that vacation you were planning next month: Will Hawaiian-shirt Friday make up for it? Because you just acquired months of work making global policy changes to your applications. Get ready to tag each network device in all your offices around the world.
86% of companies
that use manual policy inspection experience problems in over 10% of their change windows6
With Cisco SD-WAN
2-day deployment
Policy changes? Easy peasy.
On a global scale? Thumbs up.
You have centralized management and visibility. This means you can globally deploy and enforce policy in real time at the application level.
Without Cisco SD-WAN
6-month deployment
About that vacation you were planning next month: Will Hawaiian-shirt Friday make up for it? Because you just acquired months of work making global policy changes to your applications. Get ready to tag each network device in all your offices around the world.
With Cisco SD-WAN
Zero touch
It’s the end of the business day, and it’s “go-live” time for your new branch. Will you be here all night provisioning? Nope. Plan A: With Cisco SD-WAN, deployment is simple, secure, and centrally managed, straight from the cloud. Then pack up and go home. No Plan B needed.
Without Cisco SD-WAN
Out of touch
It’s time to launch your new branch and sign off for the day. But you can’t easily access those thousands of new endpoints. Plan A: Bang your head on the keyboard. Plan B: Take many deep breaths and start another pot of coffee. It’s going to be a late night.
Zero touch
It’s the end of the business day, and it’s “go-live” time for your new branch. Will you be here all night provisioning? Nope. Plan A: With Cisco SD-WAN, deployment is simple, secure, and centrally managed, straight from the cloud. Then pack up and go home.
No Plan B needed.
7x mobile data
traffic increase projected between 2016 and 20217
Out of touch
It’s time to launch your new branch and sign off for the day. But you can’t easily access those thousands of new endpoints. Plan A: Bang your head on the keyboard. Plan B: Take many deep breaths and start another pot of coffee. It’s going to be a late night.
127 new devices
connect to the Internet every second8
Sources:
Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report, Cisco, 2018.
2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study, Ponemon Institute, July 2018.
Cisco SD-WAN anonymous healthcare customer.
Is Your App Performance Helping or Hindering the Bottom Line, AppDynamics, 2018.
Cisco SD-WAN anonymous retail customer.
Research Summary: Network Security Policy Management Tools—Tying Policies to Process, Visibility, Connectivity, and Migration, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), 2018.
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2016-2021, Cisco, Sept. 2017.
What’s New with the Internet of Things, McKinsey & Company, May 2017.
