The challenge
The carrier’s wide-area network ran on traditional MPLS, robust but costly and rigid. Leadership wanted better WAN stability and lower connectivity cost, but could not risk a blind cutover of the production insurance applications its branches depend on. They needed proof that SD-WAN could deliver application-aware routing, automatic failover and real savings before committing to a full migration.
Our approach
- Planning and design: defined goals with the carrier’s team and selected representative sites, a central data center plus remote offices, for a controlled proof of concept.
- Deployment and configuration: deployed SD-WAN appliances across the data center and remote sites, integrated with the existing Cisco core and Palo Alto security platform, and configured the controllers for application-aware routing and traffic optimization.
- Testing and evaluation: ran performance, reliability and failover tests, measuring latency, bandwidth utilization and application experience under different traffic and link-failure conditions.
- Documentation and recommendation: documented the configuration and results and delivered a report with a clear recommendation and a path to full rollout.
The solution
VeeMost stood up a working SD-WAN environment alongside the existing MPLS network and proved it in a controlled, time-boxed proof of concept: application-aware routing that prioritizes critical insurance applications, automatic failover between links, and one centralized controller for every site. The carrier saw the performance and cost case on its own traffic, with no production risk, and came away with a data-backed go decision and a rollout plan instead of a leap of faith.
