Case Study: Equity Office achieves 50% WAN cost savings and a resilient, higher-performance network with Oracle SD‑WAN

Equity Office oversees property management with an Oracle (formerly Talari) SD-WAN

Equity Office Management, a Blackstone‑owned firm with over 45 million square feet of Class A office space, was struggling with poor application and VoIP performance during peak times on its decade‑old Verizon MPLS/T1 network. Despite Riverbed WAN optimization, morning log‑on spikes caused slow file access and user complaints, and upgrading MPLS capacity was prohibitively expensive.

The company deployed an Oracle SD‑WAN (Talari) to aggregate and intelligently steer DSL, cable, fiber and Ethernet‑over‑copper links from multiple carriers, making per‑packet routing decisions based on latency, loss and jitter. The redesign doubled to tripled bandwidth at many sites, cut WAN spending by roughly 50% (from about $400K/year), delivered a 10‑month ROI, eliminated peak‑time complaints and maintained VoIP quality and failover resilience when circuits failed.

Equity Office

Chavdar Momchev

Director of Data & Voice Communications