Calculating Return on Investment for SD-WAN

April 15, 2018

There are many ways to measure the financial return period of deploying SD-WAN. Many organizations justify their business case and cost by estimating return on investment (ROI), or the time it takes before the savings exceed the cost of deploying the SD-WAN solution. Traditional wide-area networking (WAN) bandwidth, maintenance, management and support represent a significant portion of an organization’s IT budget.

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