Case Study: SmithAmundsen LLC achieves efficient, secure, always-on connectivity for offices and remote workers with VMware SD-WAN

Rethinking the WAN to Efficiently and Securely Connect Offices, Remote Workers

SmithAmundsen is a midwestern business law firm with about 180 attorneys across seven offices that was hampered by a traditional hub‑and‑spoke MPLS WAN. The firm faced frequent outages, limited bandwidth, single points of failure, inconsistent configurations and inefficient backhaul to a central datacenter, leaving remote users and cloud access underperforming as the business grew.

Working with Coevolve, SmithAmundsen deployed VMware SD‑WAN by VeloCloud and Zscaler, converting MPLS to dual Internet circuits and installing dual SD‑WAN edges with zero‑touch provisioning. In 45 days the firm moved to a fully meshed, cloud‑delivered architecture—repurposing legacy routers for voice—gaining high availability, single‑pane network visibility, eliminated MPLS costs, expanded bandwidth, and end‑to‑end security for office and remote users via ZIA/ZPA with Okta SSO.

SmithAmundsen LLC