Some things are simply better together. Like Han Solo and Chewbacca. Or honey ham and Swiss cheese. Each of them is great on its own, but something special happens when you put them together. SD-WAN and UCaaS are one of those combinations that is greater than the sum of its parts, but companies typically don’t see them as a dynamic duo. Companies are typically either mulling over the idea of upgrading their outdated WAN to an SD-WAN … or they are thinking of upgrading their voice systems to a Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solution. These are typically seen as two completely separate technology issues, but doing one without the other would be a missed opportunity for companies’ cloud strategies because of the way they enhance one another.
The benefits of doing these two implementations together are particularly dramatic for mid-sized companies because of the legacy technologies that they are usually upgrading from. Unlike large enterprises, which are typically pretty far down the path of cloud infrastructure investments, the 200,000 mid-sized companies in the U.S. are generally starting from much further behind: