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Favored legacy Wide Area Networks (WANs) are not up to the tasks, as they are suffering due to lack of scalability with their traditional non-virtualized form as it still requires a lot of physical components. Update and maintenance of fickle hardware costs a lot. There is a need for more flexible and scalable networking solutions. Many enterprise solutions offer proprietary form of SD-WANs (Software-Defined Wide Area Networks), but they are costly and inflexible, which means they are not practical for all applications. This paper proposes an Open-source SD-WAN with OpenDaylight platform as core that we have tested in a simulated environment along with Mininet and Oracle Virtual Box to study various scenarios. Test results show that it provides a 35% increase in throughput, decreases 40% in latency, and reduces packet loss by 50%, compared to traditional WANs. Additionally with Open-Source nature, it has a 20% lower operational coupled with the problem mitigation factors listed above, which makes it a more potential solution for the current woes of businesses.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4108\/eetsis.7217","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,24]],"date-time":"2025-07-24T07:50:21Z","timestamp":1753343421000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Adopting Open-Source SD-WAN: A Comprehensive Analysis of Performance, Cost, and Security Benefits Over Traditional WAN Architectures"],"prefix":"10.4108","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Segun","family":"V. 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