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WAN & SD-WAN

Intelligent connectivity with SD-WAN + Starlink

Business-location-based connectivity that actively optimizes performance, resilience and application experience, rolled out one repeatable site at a time.

Primary circuit + StarlinkApplication-aware routingEnd-to-end design, deployment and support
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The problem

Your WAN grew site by site. Now it has to change all at once.

Most branch networks share the same four problems. Here is what we find, what it costs you, and how we fix it.

The problem
What it costs you
How we fix it
Legacy branch firewalls with years of undocumented rules
Nobody knows which rules still matter, so every change risks an outage or a security gap.
A clean, templated security policy built from discovery and applied the same way at every site
Mixed MPLS, Internet and DMVPN transport
Routing behaves differently at every site, so outages take longer to find and fix.
One Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN overlay across every transport, with application-aware routing
Partner and third-party connections nobody wants to touch
Fragile IPsec tunnels hold up the migration and break when anything changes.
Partner VPNs documented and moved to a central, standard design
Single points of failure at the branch edge
One circuit or one device goes down and the whole location is offline.
Active / active primary circuit plus Starlink, so the site stays up when a circuit drops

The solution

How the solution works

Active / active SD-WAN with a primary circuit plus Starlink at every business location.

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Branch SD-WAN edge

Secure SD-WAN appliance at every business location.

2

Dual connectivity

Primary circuit plus Starlink, active / active for redundancy and performance.

3

Continuous monitoring

Latency, jitter, loss and availability measured on every path.

4

Application-aware policies

Applications are identified and treated based on business intent.

5

Dynamic path selection

The best path is chosen in real time, with fast failover when a path degrades.

Always-on connectivity
Fast failover
Operational visibility
Optimized user experience

Application-aware

Application-aware decisioning

Policy-based traffic steering that chooses the best path for each application.

Application-aware decision engine

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Application
Policy
Business outcome
Voice & video
Lowest latency / jitter path
Improved call quality
Critical business apps
Preferred SLA-compliant path
Reliable user experience
Bulk / backup traffic
Available or lower-priority path
Cost-aware efficiency
Outage or degradation
Automatic reroute
Business continuity
Policies align connectivity behavior to business priorities and application requirements.

What we transform

From legacy to policy-driven

Legacy WAN→Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Single-homed branches→Primary circuit + Starlink, redundant edge
Distributed firewall policy→Standardized enterprise security
Fragmented routing→Structured BGP architecture

Beyond the branch

The hard connections, handled

Partner VPN migration

Third-party IPsec moved from distributed firewalls to central Palo Alto, running legacy and new in parallel with a zero-overlap addressing strategy.

Cloudflare DDoS / GRE

Cloud DDoS protection integrated with SD-WAN, DMVPN and partner VPN routing, including MTU and failover.

Out-of-band

SD-WAN-connected OOB so sites stay manageable when production is down.

Proof

Repeatable at scale

Case study

80-site branch SD-WAN program

Legacy branch firewalls retired across ~80 locations with enterprise and partner services kept reachable. The result: a repeatable per-site migration method.

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Global routing remediation

BGP architecture, route preference and failover for ~500 APAC locations, lab-validated before production.

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How it runs

How a site migrates

Discover

Circuits, LAN, NAT and firewall rules.

Design

One template plus site-specific variables.

Pilot

Prove the template on representative sites.

Migrate

Wave-based cutovers with backout plans.

Validate

Failover testing and application checks.

Hand off

As-built docs and runbooks.

Work with us

Start with a pilot-site plan

Begin with a WAN discovery and pilot-site plan. Senior engineers and one point of contact from first call to final handoff.

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