[c-nsp] Intelligent Bandwidth Management

[Catalin Dominte]

I migrated a customer with multiple offices around UK, off expensive leased
lines to DMVPN with two redundant broadband providers at each branch and
that worked out beautifully. Saved them a few tens of k first year and a
lot more after and got them 10 times more bandwidth capacity.

Again they seem really happy with their decision as it gave them insight
into what their network did and actually gave them more management of the
network.

For people who actually need it I can use the likes of Infosim to do funky
automated stuff, but most of the time customers just want good service,
security and redundancy. :)

Catalin Dominte
Unified Network Management Solutions
Nocsult Ltd



 5 June 2017 at 20:21:57, Shawn L (shawn at rmrf.us) wrote:

> I have one customer (medium sized medical institution) that has 1 main
> office and 5-6 branches that replaced their MPLS circuits with SD-Wan.
> They run their network traffic and VoIP phone system over it without
> issue. Saved them a large chunk of $$ too, converting their MPLS circuits
> to Internet. They were able to leverage part of that savings into getting
> Internet bandwidth from redundant providers at some sites.
>
> There are some trade-offs. They lost some degree of management -- mainly
> fighting with the SD-WAN devices to make them do what you expect them to,
> vs what they want to do. But they seem fairly happy with their decision.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com>
> wrote:
>
> How many of you have successfully displaced your MPLS circuits for
> VoIP/video with SD-WAN?
>
> Ray
>
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 05:55:20PM +0000, Nick Cutting wrote:
>
> I would also like to know these things.
>
> My boss is constantly talking about some kind of magical SD-WAN and how
>
> we need it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
>
> Mark Mason
>
> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 2:46 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Intelligent Bandwidth Management
>
> #bump
>
> From: Mark Mason
> Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 9:27 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Intelligent Bandwidth Management
>
> APIC-EM, Noction, FatPipe Networks, LiveAction, Cisco OER (legacy),
> Cisco PfR, advanced BGP parameters, home grown DevOps Open Source
> network probes to a collector (thinking CloudFlare Salt NAPALM
> automation examples I've seen), etc.?
>
> What is the industry using for identification of latency increases,
> ISP congestion, ISP congestion one transit removed, etc.?
>
> Quite some time ago OER->to initial PFRv1 I deployed with success but
> it had massive change logs and zero GUI with a failed Cisco Fluke
> Networks graphical representation. Also lacked some maintenance mode
> knobs and additional tweaks I needed. Time has come back around to
> make the internet edge more intelligent again!
>
> Mark Mason
>
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