At Citrix Synergy 2019, we featured customers in sessions speaking about their experiences and the benefits they achieved with Citrix SD-WAN. Hearing from them directly is one of the best ways to understand how this technology can help your organization improve user experience and security while reducing networking costs. If you missed any of the sessions this year, you can catch them on demand now!
Here is a recap of key points from the SD-WAN sessions, with links to watch the sessions:
Financial and Insurance Services Company Transitions to the Cloud with SD-WAN
PPS (Professional Provident Society) overcame the limitations of a legacy network and transformed it to transition to the cloud. Prior to SD-WAN, a new branch could take 90 to 120 days to get online and there was no real visibility or control of the network.
They needed a network that could provide stability and reliability in the cloud. With Citrix SD-WAN, they were able to realize a 12-month return on investment while improving the application experience for their employees and members — all while ensuring their business remains secure. To learn more about how PPS has improved its network, read the full case study.
Watch now: SYN117 — Strong return on investment and experience: The PPS journey to the cloud with SD-WAN
Urgent Care Delivers a Great Experience in Its Clinics
Fast Pace Urgent Care worked with Citrix for a better experience delivering Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops at a lower cost. They were paying for unused secondary connections while bandwidth demands continued to rise. Frustratingly, the secondary connections always outperformed the primary circuits but were unreliable for full clinic operations.
With Citrix SD-WAN, MPLS circuit costs were instantly reduced by 50 percent, and lower-cost broadband links delivered the same service level as dedicated high-speed services. What’s more, switching between primary and secondary links occured without any service interruption, even with voice traffic! Clinic setup time for edge network went from 60 minutes with only a 20 percent success rate to 15 minutes with a 95 percent success rate. This session also delved into the specific Citrix SD-WAN technologies that optimize delivery of hosted applications and desktops, as well as SaaS apps like Microsoft Office 365.
Watch now: SYN226 — Reliable, high performance workspace delivery over imperfect network connections
Top 50 U.S. Hospital Prioritizes EMR Traffic with 80 Percent Savings
Learn how Atlanta-based Northside Hospital, a top 50 hospital in the U.S., deals with pressures such as massive growth, getting new sites live, and getting circuits from carriers in short timeframes, like 30 days. They overcame challenges such as moving to a cloud EMR and getting medical practices on VoIP. They used Citrix SD-WAN to fix quality issues caused by their cloud-based EMR as well as struggles to prioritize EMR traffic over their L2 ASE VPN.
Learn how the hospital doubled its bandwidth for critical radiology files while saving 80 percent on circuit costs per year.
Watch now: SYN146 — #RealWorldExample: SD-WAN eliminates the consequences of network outages
Citrix SD-WAN Is Purpose-Built for Healthcare
If your company has a distributed workforce, SD-WAN technology can ensure the best user experience for video and virtual desktop sessions, real-time communications, and more. It can also ensure ambulatory and acute care sites run seamlessly all of the time. What’s more, having multiple links means more flexibility, more bandwidth and more control. Prioritize delivery of critical application traffic with centralized policies while granular visibility helps pinpoint issues quickly.
Read how SD-WAN is the right connection for remote healthcare facilities. And for more information on some of the innovations announced at Synergy and that enable the network transformations of these industry leaders, check out SYN121 — What’s New in Citrix Networking.
