Case Study: Cemstone achieves 50% TCO reduction and rapid, always-on site deployments with VMware SD-WAN

SD-WAN Helps Deliver an Exceptional Customer Experience in Highly Perishable Product Business

Cemstone is a Midwest concrete manufacturer and supplier with 90+ locations whose business depends on fast, reliable order taking and delivery because concrete is highly perishable. Its legacy, centralized MPLS network was costly, inflexible and prone to outages—especially in rural areas—hindering productivity, cloud and VoIP initiatives and slowing new site deployments.

Working with Renodis, Cemstone deployed VMware SD-WAN edges and replaced MPLS with broadband/DSL/4G, using zero-touch provisioning, wave-based rollouts and 24x7 monitoring for redundancy and cloud-optimized access. The move cut TCO by more than 50% at MPLS sites, reduced new site deployment time from weeks to about four hours, improved uptime and voice quality, and simplified ongoing network management.

Cemstone

Nate Schroedl

Director of IT