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Ohio Manufacturer Cuts WAN Costs by 54% with SD-WAN

How a 12-location Ohio manufacturer cut WAN costs 54% by replacing legacy MPLS with SD-WAN. $8,300/month saved, zero unplanned downtime.

54%
WAN cost cut
$99.6K
Saved per year
38 days
Full deployment
0
Unplanned outages
Manufacturing · SD-WAN

What we did

Columbus-based manufacturer · 12 locations across Ohio & Indiana.

Carrier-neutral SD-WAN

Replaced all 12 MPLS circuits with SD-WAN over a fiber and broadband mix.

Redundancy everywhere

Built-in failover at every location, switching over in under 50ms.

Direct cloud breakout

Microsoft 365 and ERP traffic routed straight to the cloud — no hub hop.

One dashboard

Centralized management across every site, live in 38 days with zero downtime.

The results

$8,300 saved a month

WAN spend dropped from $18,400 to $10,100 — $99,600 a year.

60% faster cloud

Cloud application performance improved 60% via direct breakout routing.

Zero outages

No unplanned network outages in the 14 months since deployment.

10+ hours/week back

IT reclaimed its time; new sites now provision in days, not months.

Let’s scope it together.

Talk to the Buckeye team — the owner is involved in every engagement, and there’s no advisory fee.

Talk to the team

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