SD-WAN rollout across 300+ sites for a regional retail group
- Client
- Regional retail group with stores across the GCC (name withheld)
- Year
- 2024–26
- Type
- Network
The brief
Hundreds of stores on a legacy firewall and router WAN needed to move to one centrally managed, resilient SD-WAN fabric without disrupting trading.
What I built
- HPE Aruba EdgeConnect deployed across 300+ sites, managed from Aruba Orchestrator
- EdgeHA, VRRP and IP SLA designs so a site survives a device or link failure
- MPLS + internet underlays with Business Intent Overlays (BIOs) steering traffic by business priority
- BGP, OSPF and static routing integrated with the existing core
- Site-by-site migration from legacy firewalls and routers, planned from an analysis of the existing configs
- HLD / LLD documentation and topology diagrams
Stack
- HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
- Aruba Orchestrator
- EdgeHA
- VRRP
- IP SLA
- BGP
- OSPF
- MPLS