Consolidating MPLS and LTE/5G Under Managed SD-WAN with SASE

Challenge

[CUSTOMER — placeholder] ran parallel MPLS and LTE/5G circuits that were hard to manage and left branch offices exposed to security gaps and inconsistent application performance. The bank’s network team was manually steering traffic per site, with no unified visibility and no consistent security posture across its distributed footprint. As transaction volumes grew, the cost of circuit idle time and the risk of an outage during peak banking hours became unacceptable to the business.

Solution

Clevertek deployed a managed SD-WAN overlay with integrated SASE, consolidating all links under policy-driven routing, zero-trust access, and centralized orchestration. Legacy MPLS was retained for latency-sensitive core traffic while LTE/5G and LTE were promoted to active, application-aware paths, with SASE enforcing identity-based access and threat inspection at the edge. A single control plane gave the network and security teams one pane of glass for configuration, monitoring, and incident response.

Results

By unifying transport under a managed SD-WAN with SASE, [CUSTOMER — placeholder] reduced network downtime by [X%] and brought new branches online [XX]% faster than its previous manual provisioning approach. Application performance became predictable through dynamic path selection, and the security team closed long-standing edge gaps without adding point products. The consolidated architecture also simplified compliance reporting and freed the internal team to focus on higher-value initiatives rather than per-site firefighting.