Measuring the ROI of Riverbed SD-WAN

April 26, 2018

This paper reviews the benefits of transitioning from a legacy wide-area network (WAN) to a next-generation WAN with Riverbed’s software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution. It calculates the potential return on investment (ROI) from deploying Riverbed SteelConnect and explores additional quantitative and qualitative benefits. EMA’s analysis shows that an enterprise can expect more than a 6X ROI over five years, with a payback period of fewer than ten months.

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