Case Study: Manhard Consulting achieves rapid office deployments and improved network performance with VMware SD-WAN

Network Transformation to Fuel Growth and Ensure Optimized Network Performance

Manhard Consulting, a civil engineering and professional services firm serving over 10,000 clients, was constrained by an MPLS-based WAN that caused high costs, limited visibility, slow branch onboarding, poor voice/video quality, and inadequate support for cloud applications like Office 365 and Skype for Business—hindering an acquisition-driven growth strategy.

After a successful POC, Manhard deployed VMware SD-WAN (via Truth Communications), migrating off MPLS over time and replacing legacy routers. The centralized orchestrator, full gateway access and DMPO link optimization delivered single-click policy changes, faster branch rollouts, halved latency to key cloud-hosted systems, improved voice/video QoS, added redundancy (active-active), and produced an immediate ~30% network cost savings while enabling future cloud expansion.

Manhard Consulting

Don Willemarck

Director of IT