What is SD-WAN?
Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is a modern networking solution that intelligently routes business internet traffic across multiple connections, such as fiber, cable, 5G/LTE, and cloud services. SD-WAN continuously monitors network performance and automatically selects the best available path to ensure optimal application performance, reliability, and uptime.
Unlike traditional networks that rely on a single internet connection, SD-WAN provides redundancy, failover protection, centralized management, and improved visibility into network performance across multiple locations.
Managed SD-WAN Solutions
Keep your business connected with intelligent SD-WAN solutions, internet failover, network monitoring, and proactive network management. TTI helps organizations maximize uptime, improve application performance, and maintain secure connectivity across offices, remote workers, and cloud environments.
Replace Costly MPLS with Flexible Internet Connections
SD-WAN lets businesses securely connect branch offices, remote employees, and cloud applications using almost any available internet connection.
Instead of paying for expensive private MPLS circuits, you can use business broadband, fiber, cable, and wireless service, often at a much lower monthly cost, while keeping the reliability and performance your business depends on.
Why Businesses Use SD-WAN
Modern businesses depend on cloud applications, remote workers, VoIP phone systems, and reliable internet connectivity. Even a brief outage can impact productivity, customer service, and revenue.
Internet Failover
Automatically switches to a secondary internet connection if the primary connection fails, minimizing downtime and keeping employees connected.
Multi-Location Connectivity
Connect headquarters, branch offices, remote workers, and cloud applications through a centralized network architecture.
Improved Application Performance
Prioritizes critical business applications such as Microsoft 365, VoIP phone systems, video conferencing, CRM platforms, and cloud services.
Business Continuity
Helps maintain connectivity during ISP outages, network disruptions, and other unexpected events.
Centralized Network Management
Monitor and manage all business locations from a single dashboard, simplifying troubleshooting and reducing IT complexity.
Enhanced Security
Securely connects offices, users, and cloud applications while providing visibility into network traffic and performance.
How TTI Helps
TTI designs, deploys, and manages SD-WAN solutions that improve network reliability, performance, and business continuity. Whether your organization operates from a single office in New Jersey or multiple locations across the country, we help keep your employees, customers, and applications connected.
Key Benefits
- ✓ Automatic Internet Failover
- ✓ Multi-WAN Connectivity
- ✓ Cloud Application Optimization
- ✓ Network Monitoring & Alerting
- ✓ Remote Worker Connectivity
- ✓ Secure Site-to-Site Networking
- ✓ Centralized Management
- ✓ Improved Business Continuity
Managed Network Services
SD-WAN keeps your locations connected. Network management keeps everything behind it running smoothly: your routers, switches, Wi-Fi and the devices that depend on them. TTI monitors, maintains and supports your network so problems are caught early and fixed fast.
Monitoring & Alerts
We watch your internet connections, routers, switches and access points, and get alerted when a device goes offline or performance drops, often before your staff notices.
Firmware & Security Updates
We keep network equipment up to date with the latest firmware and security patches, reducing the risk of outages and vulnerabilities.
Switch & Wi-Fi Management
Cloud-managed Peplink and Grandstream switches and Wi-Fi, set up and maintained by TTI, with secure guest Wi-Fi kept separate from your business network.
VoIP Call Quality
We configure VLANs and Quality of Service (QoS) so phone calls and video meetings get priority over downloads and other traffic.
Remote Reboot & Power Control
With WattBox remote power management, we can restart a frozen modem, router or switch remotely, often without a service call.
Documentation & Support
We keep records of your network setup, devices and settings, and our local team provides remote and onsite support when you need it.
SD-WAN vs. Network Management: SD-WAN is about how your locations connect to the internet and to each other. Network management covers the day-to-day care of the equipment inside each location. TTI can handle both, so you have one local partner for your whole network.
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Cut Costs Without Losing Reliability
Case Study
The Challenge
A healthcare client with 7 locations, a headquarters and six smaller offices, was supporting 150 IP phones and workstations on a legacy network built on traditional MPLS circuits. Monthly network costs were high, and bandwidth was limited.
The legacy infrastructure restricted day-to-day operations due to rigid bandwidth caps:
• Primary Links: Limited to 40 Mbps dedicated fiber at the main sites, and just 20 Mbps fiber at the remaining offices.
• Secondary Links: Fragmented backup circuits using standard consumer-tier Comcast and Verizon FiOS lines.
The TTI Managed Solution
TTI designed and deployed a high-performance, highly resilient SD-WAN network, replacing the costly MPLS circuits:
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High-Capacity Routing & Connectivity: We upgraded the main sites with Gigabit-capable business routers configured for Dual-WAN Failover over high-speed, business-class FiOS and Comcast service. Branch offices were provisioned with 400 Mbps primary service backed by a 100 Mbps secondary connection.
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Cellular Integration: Branch offices were equipped with multi-carrier cellular hardware managed directly by TTI, adding a third layer of network redundancy.
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Peplink SpeedFusion Bonding: Peplink Balance 20X routers allowed TTI to bond separate internet connections into a single connection. SpeedFusion provides seamless failover designed to keep voice calls and active remote sessions connected during ISP disruptions.
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Secure vMPLS Overlay: To keep inter-office data and internal voice traffic encrypted, TTI deployed a secure virtual MPLS (vMPLS) overlay network across all seven locations.
The Results & Financial Impact
- • Lower Monthly Costs: Replacing MPLS with business broadband and SD-WAN lowered recurring network costs, with savings of about $52,200 over three years across all seven locations.
- • More Bandwidth: Offices moved from 20 to 40 Mbps circuits to connections of 400 Mbps and up, with backup connections at every site.
- • Performance & Compliance Gains: The new network greatly reduced packet drops and jitter. Calls are now optimized for clear voice quality, protected against single-ISP outages, and designed to support the client's HIPAA compliance requirements.
SD-WAN is WAN VirtualizationIn the same way server virtualization abstracts the underlying physical hardware from the logical virtual servers that run on it, WAN virtualization allows a logical WAN connection (either to the Internet or between branch offices) to utilize multiple underlying connectivity technologies, such as xDSL, MPLS, cellular, and fiber, simultaneously. This connectivity is presented to users and applications as a single, direct connection to the Internet or a secure site-to-site connection. |
SD-WAN is IntelligentSD-WAN enabled networks continuously monitor WAN health and connection quality, then use those measurements to make intelligent routing decisions for your real-time application traffic.
Best of all, once it's configured, traffic management happens automatically. Your network follows software-defined rules set on the device, which greatly reduces the need for manual troubleshooting. |
SD-WAN is Secure VPNUsing encrypted VPN tunnels, branch offices get secure access to your main office network and critical cloud resources. SD-WAN can increase the speed and lower the cost of these branch connections by combining the bandwidth of multiple internet connections into a single logical WAN connection. SD-WAN can also send everyday internet traffic directly out to the internet at each site, improving performance and reducing unnecessary traffic through your VPN. |
How SD-WAN Can Help Your Business
Faster, more reliable connections for your offices, your people and the cloud.
Flexibility
Design each location's network to fit its needs, and adjust easily as your business changes.
Application Performance
Phone calls, video meetings and cloud apps get priority, so the things that matter most run smoothly.
Smart Routing
SD-WAN recognizes each type of traffic and sends it over the best available connection automatically.
Centralized Management
See every location's network and application performance in one place, for faster troubleshooting.
Any Connection Type
Works with fiber, cable, broadband, 5G/LTE and MPLS, so you can mix and match what's available.
Fast Setup
Equipment can be pre-configured before it arrives, which makes new sites quicker and simpler to bring online.
Control Costs
Use affordable business internet in place of expensive dedicated circuits, and add bandwidth only where it's needed.
Network Security
Encrypted tunnels protect traffic between sites, and TTI can add firewall and managed security for extra protection.
SD-WAN & Network Management FAQ
Quick answers to common questions.
Can SD-WAN reduce Ethernet circuit costs?
In many cases, yes. SD-WAN can let businesses replace or supplement costly dedicated Ethernet circuits with broadband, fiber and LTE or 5G connections, which can lower monthly expenses.
What connection types does SD-WAN support?
SD-WAN can use MPLS, broadband, fiber and LTE or 5G connections, and chooses the best path for each application based on performance, cost and priority.
Is SD-WAN secure for business use?
SD-WAN uses encryption and centrally managed security policies to help protect traffic across your locations. TTI can pair it with firewall and managed security services for added protection.
What does managed network service include?
TTI monitors your routers, switches and Wi-Fi, keeps firmware and security updates current, sets up call-quality settings for your phones, and provides remote and onsite support when something needs attention.
Do I need SD-WAN to get network management?
No. Network management works for single-office businesses too. SD-WAN is most helpful when you have multiple locations, remote workers or need internet failover. TTI can recommend the right mix for your business.