The people from Viptela, at the time, assisted in the implementation. They were helpful in pushing along the implementation and it went smoothly.  

We do the deployment of the solution. The number of people we use for a five-hundred branch site is four teams and each team has five people. The teams consist of L2 and L3 engineers and a reviewer from the project team. From the first day of deployment to the handover, it took one year to complete.

We implement the solution for customers. 

We don't implement the solution but just follow up on existing use cases. The solution tends to have a large setup and the deploy time is between three to six months. 

One or two of our resources can handle ongoing support for customers. This also depends on customer participation and whether we are providing joint support. 

The implementation was completed in-house.

We used a third-party vendor help to implement the solution.

We did have some outside help, although nothing was from Cisco directly. We have our contact support company, and also we have in-house knowledge. It's done together, using both teams.

We implement this solution for customers. We are a Global Gold partner of Cisco, so we consult, design, implement, and provide support to customers. 

We're an SSP as well, so we also offer maintenance services. We can provide standard maintenance services of supporting only the hardware, or if a customer asks for full managed services, we can deploy our engineers either on the customer side or remotely. We have a NOC facility, from which we can provide remote support. 

We work with three guys from the internal team and four from vendors.

We deployed it the first time with the help of Cisco engineers. We had two Cisco engineers along with an in-house team of four.

I implemented Cisco SD-WAN with fifteen engineers, plus implementation and project teams from the bank.

We handled the implementation ourselves. We did not need to worry about getting help from outside vendors. 

As a new contractor, the deployment process is expected to take around six months, approximately half of which will be dedicated to virtualization and fine-tuning.

The deployment time for a proof of concept is typically 40-60 hours, but a full-scale deployment will vary depending on the size of the organization's network.

About 80% of the time is dedicated to data gathering and planning for any deployment. This step involves understanding the existing network vs. old transformation to understand the data-gathering process. 

Then, you create a high-level design for SD-WAN and discuss and explore different options, such as technology choices (fully managed, partially managed, peered approach), depending on the company's network profile, workload, and global or local footprint. These factors help to achieve a well-defined design. 

Once the design is approved, the next step is understanding the existing services and their hosting locations, whether on-premises, different sites, or cloud. A deployment plan is formulated to minimize downtime following a pilot phase to assess stability, a comprehensive deployment is executed.

In the first phase, our partner implemented the solution, but afterward, we managed it by ourselves.

We did outsource the initial setup.

The deployment was done in-house and did not take more than two to three days.

We used the Solution Support Partner Program (SSPP) from Cisco.

It's much better for a company to do the deployment with the help of a consultant or integrator, as they understand the solution quite extensively. I'd recommend if a company is seeking out an integrator, that they choose a portal DNA integrator.

We had a vendor and it was not hard. We took a while to get the templates, but not that long. 

We used an integrator and Cisco themselves.

We assist our clients with the implementation process.

Deployment is mainly done in-house.

We help our clients implement the solution.

We had a consultant who helped us with all this. He was perfect and knew everything. It needs two staff members for deployment.

We have a team of five people. One project manager, two specialist engineers, and two basic engineers, who maintain this solution.

We have an in-house team of four people for deployment and maintenance.

I don't use any integrator or retailer at all. The way they have implemented SD-WAN is that they just provide the device. The devices are handed to me to be implemented and configured.

For maintaining the product, you just need to monitor the connection to the platform through the web portal. Overall, you need to dedicate two hours per day to assess the functionality of the devices and implementing them. It could be as easy as one day or five hours. It could also get very complicated depending on the configuration that you are doing. So, if you want to go fancy in the configuration, it can take you easily one weekend deploying the configuration. It depends on how complicated you want to go. I would say as long as you keep it simple, it will take you pretty much three hours or two hours for implementing it.

I would recommend a system integration company that has the knowledge of how to operate the system to do the implementation.

We deploy this product for our clients.

Level of expertise is good as mos to cisco engineer are certified in specific area 

I used a consultant for the implementation. I am an architect, and I only design the solution. I discuss the solution with the network engineer and then roll it out with the help of the network engineer and the project manager.

We deployed it ourselves with our own network engineers. 

It took us one day to implement and we didn't use any advanced features so it was quite quick. We migrated the set-up from the old device and put it on the new one. They're both on the same platform. We did the implementation ourselves and we have one staff member involved with maintenance. We're currently looking to switch our internet gateway so I'm not sure how long this situation will last. We're looking for a provider so we can outsource the network. 

We are the partners, therefore we are the value-added resellers. So what we do, is to help the customers do the implementation.

The side in charge of deployment and maintenance and a couple of engineers is sufficient for handling these tasks. 

Our in-house team implemented this solution.

One person is suitable for deployment and maintenance.

The installation can be done independently. 

I implemented this solution by myself.

As a system integrator, I deploy this solution myself.

We need a couple of engineers at headquarters to maintain it, and we don't usually need anybody at the remote sites. Normally, it's plug-and-play.

We tend to implement this solution for our clients if they require it of us.

We asked Cisco's technical support for assistance during the implementation process.

We deploy these types of products for our clients.