SD-WAN integration with cloud environments enables dynamic, policy-driven routing of branch office and remote site traffic to cloud workloads — optimizing performance, reducing MPLS dependency, and enabling secure direct internet access for cloud-destined traffic.
RLM advises on SD-WAN platform selection, cloud integration architecture, security service chain design, and the migration from legacy MPLS to a cloud-integrated SD-WAN fabric — ensuring every location has reliable, cost-optimized access to cloud resources.
A structured advisory process — from discovery and market evaluation to negotiation and post-deployment optimization — tailored to your specific environment and objectives.
We assess your current WAN topology, branch office connectivity, cloud traffic volumes, and application performance requirements — identifying the SD-WAN integration architecture that delivers the best performance-to-cost ratio.
We evaluate SD-WAN platforms — Cisco Viptela, VMware VeloCloud, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN — specifically for cloud integration quality: native AWS/Azure/GCP gateways, Cloud OnRamp capabilities, and direct cloud peering.
SD-WAN with direct internet access requires a robust security stack. We design the security service chain — local internet breakout security, cloud-delivered SASE, or hybrid approaches — integrated with your SD-WAN deployment.
We design the phased migration from legacy MPLS to SD-WAN — managing the transition to avoid disruption to business-critical applications while progressively retiring expensive private circuit costs.
These are the dimensions that consistently separate successful deployments from costly ones — and the questions RLM will help you answer before any commitment.
Native cloud gateways (AWS Transit Gateway Connect, Azure Virtual WAN, GCP NCC) provide optimized SD-WAN-to-cloud routing. Evaluate the platform's cloud on-ramp capabilities for your specific cloud providers.
SD-WAN must classify and route cloud-destined application traffic intelligently — sending Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and video traffic via different paths than backup or bulk data traffic. Evaluate routing policy granularity.
Direct internet breakout at branches creates security exposure. Evaluate the integration between SD-WAN and your security stack — inline firewall, cloud-delivered security (Zscaler, Netskope), or SASE.
The ability to use any mix of MPLS, broadband, LTE, and satellite as underlay transport — and dynamically optimize across them — is a core SD-WAN value. Evaluate transport diversity support.
Branch deployment without on-site IT resources is a key SD-WAN value. Evaluate zero-touch provisioning capability and the time-to-production for new branch deployments.
End-to-end application performance visibility across all WAN paths is essential for SD-WAN operations. Evaluate the analytics platform quality and its integration with your NOC and ITSM tools.
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