SD-WAN That Connects Every Site.
Without the MPLS Bill.
Traditional WAN was built for a world where everything lived in a data center. That world is gone. Your traffic goes to the cloud, your workforce is spread across locations, and your network bill keeps climbing for bandwidth you don't control. Aureon's SD-WAN puts intelligent, software-defined routing across all your sites: faster performance, built-in redundancy, and a fraction of what MPLS costs.
Managed SD-WAN. Every stage handled, end to end.
Four capabilities, one accountable team.
Network Assessment
Before recommending anything, we map exactly what you have: every circuit, every site, every cloud dependency. That baseline tells us where MPLS is costing you more than it should and where a software-defined layer will have the biggest immediate impact.
SD-WAN Design
We design an SD-WAN architecture tailored to your sites, applications, and carriers. That means traffic policies for your critical apps, failover logic across all your links, and direct breakout to cloud without touching headquarters, no generic template, no one-size-fits-all config.
Deployment & Migration
We roll out site by site with parallel testing so your legacy WAN stays live until the new one is validated and ready. Cutover is scheduled, rehearsed, and executed without impact to users, no maintenance window surprises, no branch that goes dark during migration.
Continuous Optimization
After go-live, Aureon monitors every circuit and every site continuously, tuning policies as your traffic patterns evolve. You get quarterly reviews with actual data, not a status call that amounts to 'everything looks fine,' and a team that catches degradation before users file tickets.
Your network was built for a world that no longer exists.
Three questions surface whether your current WAN is costing you performance, reliability, or both. If any of them land, SD-WAN is the answer.
71% of enterprises say legacy WAN can't support cloud workloads.
Aureon's SD-WAN replaces rigid MPLS with software-defined routing that adapts in real time, handling cloud, SaaS, and branch traffic without the overhead.
Every Teams call and Salesforce lookup that routes through headquarters adds latency twice, on the way in and on the way out.
SD-WAN breaks out cloud traffic directly from each site to Microsoft 365, Teams, and your SaaS stack. Users notice the difference on day one.
A single-link WAN is a single point of failure. One carrier disruption stops work at that location entirely.
Aureon bonds broadband, fiber, and LTE so a link failure at any site triggers automatic failover in seconds, not a helpdesk ticket that waits until morning.
Download & Learn More
Resources to evaluate your current WAN costs, build the business case for SD-WAN, and understand what managed deployment looks like in practice.
SD-WAN
Overview
A one-page summary of Aureon's SD-WAN service: what's included, how it works, and who it's built for.
Download PDFSD-WAN vs. MPLS: The Real Cost
What MPLS actually costs vs. SD-WAN, including the hidden costs most comparisons leave out.
Read the GuideWAN Readiness Checklist
A self-assessment covering cost, performance, redundancy, and cloud readiness.
View the ChecklistCustomer Success Story
How an Iowa multi-site business moved off MPLS to Aureon SD-WAN, and what they saved.
Read the StoryWhat your network looks like after SD-WAN.
MPLS feels like the safe choice because it's familiar. What's harder to see are the costs it hides: bandwidth premiums, backhaul latency, single-link risk, and change requests that take weeks and a carrier ticket to resolve.
Click any row to see why it matters.
| Aureon SD-WAN | MPLS / Traditional WAN | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per Mbps | ✓ Broadband-based, 40-60% lower cost | 3-5x more than broadband |
| Redundancy | ✓ Multi-link failover, automatic and instant | Single link, one failure stops the site |
| Cloud app performance | ✓ Direct cloud breakout from every site | Backhauled through HQ, slow by design |
| Traffic prioritization | ✓ Application-aware, dynamic in real time | Static, all traffic treated equally |
| Visibility | ✓ Single dashboard, every site, every link | Carrier portal, limited and fragmented |
| Adding a new site | ✓ Days: software-defined, no carrier queue | Weeks: carrier provisioning and truck roll |
| Contract flexibility | ✓ Flexible, scales with your business | Multi-year, locked-in carrier terms |
| Management | ✓ Centralized, policy-driven, Aureon-managed | Manual per-device, per-site configuration |
| Support model | ✓ Aureon-owned: one team, one call | Carrier ticket queue, days to respond |
* MPLS characteristics represent typical enterprise deployments without SD-WAN overlays or active managed services.
A Partner Built for Your Business
SD-WAN designed and supported by an Iowa-based team who keeps every site connected.
Iowa-Based Team
Reach real people in West Des Moines who know your name.
Proven Cost Reduction
40-60% WAN savings vs. MPLS, with performance that improves too.
Automatic Failover
Bonded connections mean a circuit failure isn't a site outage.
Direct Cloud Breakout
Traffic leaves from each site instead of detouring through headquarters.
New Sites in Days
Software-defined turn-up, without waiting on carrier provisioning.
One Team, 40+ Years
SD-WAN, firewall, and network monitoring under one Iowa team.
Contact Us
Have a question or ready to get started? Reach out and an Iowa-based expert will get back to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
SD-WAN uses software intelligence to route traffic across multiple connection types: broadband, fiber, LTE, instead of a single fixed-route MPLS circuit. The result is lower cost per Mbps, better cloud performance, built-in redundancy, and centralized management. MPLS provides dedicated bandwidth but at a significant cost premium and with an architecture that wasn't designed for cloud-first environments.
Aureon designs SD-WAN migrations to run in parallel with existing infrastructure; new connections are established and tested before anything is cut over. Most site migrations happen with zero downtime. Aureon manages the full cutover process, including coordination with existing carriers and validation of performance before declaring each site complete.
Yes. SD-WAN works over any connection type: existing broadband, fiber, cable, or LTE. Aureon can layer SD-WAN over your current connections, add circuits where redundancy is needed, or replace MPLS entirely. The right approach depends on your sites, existing contracts, and performance requirements.
SD-WAN continuously monitors every active link and automatically reroutes traffic to the next best available connection within seconds, without manual intervention. Sessions stay alive, calls don't drop, and users often don't notice. Failover behavior is configured by Aureon based on your priorities and site requirements.
Yes. SD-WAN traffic between sites is encrypted end-to-end. When paired with Aureon's Managed Firewall, security policies apply consistently across every site and connection, so direct cloud breakout doesn't mean unprotected traffic. Aureon designs SD-WAN and security together rather than as separate layers.
Traditional WAN routes all traffic, including cloud app traffic, through headquarters before reaching the internet. SD-WAN enables direct cloud breakout from each site, so a branch user's Teams call goes directly to Microsoft's network instead of traveling to HQ and back. This eliminates the double-hop latency that degrades voice and video in MPLS environments.
Aureon manages the full SD-WAN stack: hardware, configuration, circuit monitoring, failover policies, performance tuning, and ongoing management. You define your business priorities and Aureon translates those into a network that enforces them. Day-to-day, you don't manage the WAN. Aureon does.
SD-WAN is typically priced per site per month, covering hardware, software licensing, management, and monitoring. Circuit costs vary by location and provider. Aureon provides a complete picture, management plus circuit recommendations, so you can compare total cost against your current MPLS spend. Most customers see net savings within the first year.
Timelines depend on the number of sites and whether new circuits need to be provisioned. Single-site or pilot deployments typically go live within two to four weeks. Multi-site rollouts are phased; Aureon establishes a proven template at the first site before expanding, so each subsequent deployment is faster and lower risk.