I recently got a new boss come in and he just about hit the ceiling when he saw we were spending $1,000 a month per MPLS line in the business. We explained that we used it for latency-sensitive traffic like PCOIP and VOIP, but he's very deadset on reducing cost by using cheap SDWAN boxes and getting two or three plain (read: cheap) broadband lines.
So far we've done this in three sites and all three are worse than they were to start. Average latency spiked from 40ms internally to 100ms or more. Citrix says it isn't their SDWAN box (it's never Citrix, right?), Juniper says it isn't their SRX/EX devices, and the ISPs are plugging their ears. We've overhauled the QOS rules and path balancing (duplicating traffic, marking paths bad if above X utilization or latency), still nothing.
A part of me just wonders if it can't be done.
Has anyone successfully cut out MPLS?
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