Your Business Shouldn’t Ignore SD-WAN: Help Your Larger Customers and Earn More!
Cloud adoption, mobile applications, expanding branch facilities and a host of other business imperatives continue to drive up bandwidth demand for businesses nationwide. While challenged to meet these escalating demands, IT leaders of distributed enterprises are also faced with delivering a seamless and consistent connected experience for all of their customers, employees, and partners, regardless of location or proximity to the network backbone. What’s more, they typically need to do all of this with relatively flat IT budgets.
That’s why a growing number of businesses are adopting Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), which makes it possible to deploy and support geographically dispersed networks through centralized software controls that can activate and manage resources when and where they are needed. This new way of delivering IT services — from routers and networking to security – promises improved performance, flexibility and cost savings.
Traditionally, upgrading WAN capabilities requires adding on-site equipment, people and expenses. SD-WAN provides an attractive solution to this labor- and equipment-intensive process, because it allows organizations to set up and manage networking functionality using centralized software. This centralized software programs the network traffic routing which is typically conducted by routers and switches.
In a nutshell, SD-WAN allows users to centralize management of critical business applications, simplify network operations, and reduce the cost of hardware.
And the need for SD-WAN is growing – 72% of distributed enterprises plan to increase the number of remote sites that are connecting to their WAN over the next 12 months.*
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