Case Study: Hydrite Chemical Company achieves improved network response time, seamless failover and lower WAN costs with Oracle SD‑WAN (formerly Talari)

Hydrite Chemical Co. improves its network response time with Oracle (formerly Talari) SD-WAN

Hydrite Chemical Company, a top-five U.S. chemical manufacturer with offices across the upper Midwest, relied on a centralized IT model and single MPLS T1 links at each site with DSL backups. That one-size-fits-all WAN caused slow response times and up to 30-second failovers that dropped active sessions; upgrading MPLS at every location was prohibitively expensive and backup DSL lines were largely underused.

Hydrite deployed Oracle SD‑WAN (formerly Talari) alongside its existing Steelhead WAN optimization to actively use DSL links, prioritize critical applications, and deliver seamless failover. The change eliminated session drops, increased usable bandwidth without costly MPLS upgrades, lowered WAN costs, improved productivity, and produced measurable ROI within about a year while enabling better MPLS negotiations.

Hydrite Chemical Company

Bob Fourness

Computer Operations Manager