CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions

CenturyLink SD-WAN solutions integrate disparate connectivity types into a seamless hybrid software-defined WAN for complete visibility and enhanced performance of your entire network ecosystem through a centralized customer portal. CenturyLink was recently recognized with a MEF Award as the Best SD-WAN Managed Service of the Year, Worldwide.

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6.0/10 (Expert Score) ★★★★★
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CenturyLink® SD-WAN solutions integrate disparate connectivity types into a seamless hybrid software-defined WAN for complete visibility and enhanced performance of your entire network ecosystem through a centralized customer portal.​ CenturyLink was recently recognized with the Frost and Sullivan Innovation and Leadership Award for SD-WAN in North America to go along with our 2017 MEF Award as the Best SD-WAN Managed Service of the Year, Worldwide.

CenturyLink® SD-WAN with hybrid connectivity is a complete WAN solution to support secure, scalable networks across a full range of connectivity types. Our SD-WAN solutions integrates disparate connectivity types into a seamless hybrid software-defined WAN. It utilizes aggregated and customer provided circuits including a mix of MPLS, Dedicated Internet, low cost Broadband Internet, LTE based on your site and application requirements.  SD-WAN gives you complete visibility of the entire WAN through a centralized customer portal.  Branches can get out to the internet/cloud directly without having to hairpin through a central HQ, for improved performance. CenturyLink SD-WAN can help improve application performance features like application-aware routing and QoS.​ CenturyLink was recently recognized with the Frost and Sullivan Innovation and Leadership Award for SD-WAN in North America to go along with the 2017 MEF Award as the Best SD-WAN Managed Service of the Year, Worldwide.

We offer Complete Managed / Co- Managed Global Hybrid Network Solution​s including:
– WAN design, deployment, initial configuration, site activation, 24/7 support​
– Multiple CPE options, including x86 with SD-WAN software provided ​
– Flexible transport options: MPLS, Broadband, LTE, Internet or BYON​
– Centralized administration control via CenturyLink portal​
Security​
– Authentication, key exchange and encryption​
– Advanced security options: Built-In next-generation firewall, Dashboards and analytics and Detailed event logs ​
Application Performance​
– Automatic, customer and pre-defined identification for 2,800+ applications for policy-based control​
– Application QOS: Prioritization, Policing and Shaping & Marking​
– Optimal Path Selection​
Analytics and Reporting Tools​
– Historical analytics and near real-time reporting​
– Appliance, circuit, policy, application and VRF utilization​
– SD-WAN availability, packet loss, jitter and latency performance​
– Near real-time visibility and troubleshooting tools

CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions
CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions

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CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions Reviews

Ben W.

Advanced user of CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions
★★★★★
SD-WAN Experience

What do you like best?

It certainly is nice to have these SD-WAN appliances at each of our site to provide us a rather seamless failover in the event of losing our primary internet circuit. Our project manager, Koby Agyekum, is amazing, friendly, hard working, and is always willing to go the extra mile. He has also completely turned around every single negative situation into a positive one, as I've never been left with an unresolved issue when approaching him with issues.

What do you dislike?

The SD-WAN activation process seems at times inconsistent, yet redundant. I seem to find myself having to confirm the same information repeatedly, such as network configurations, site addresses, etc. I would say more emails have to be exchanged from start to finish of the process than necessary, and there seems to be too much division within CenturyLink. An example of this was recently when I was told by an SD-WAN technician that he didn't see me in their contact system to use me as the primary contact for SD-WAN related tickets. He could not simply add me himself, but I then had to speak with our relationship manager, who then had to send a request to Control Center, just to resolve what seemed to be a simple issue. As a result, the issue felt inefficient and took days to be resolved. During processes such as this, as well as the activation process, it feels like there are "too many hands in the pot," so to speak.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have been able to implement a complete network/internet failover solution to provide redundant interconnectivity among all of our sites.

Review source: G2.com

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