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IT’S TIME TO
EMBRACE SD-WAN
TO SUPPORT A
CLOUD-BASED
FUTURE AND
GAIN THE AGILITY
REQUIRED OF A
DIGITAL WORLD.
need for homogenous network performance
at all sites, means the way organisations
architect their networks needs to change.
To really gain first-mover advantage and
be an industry leader, businesses need
the ability to pivot and adjust as markets,
customer demands and business models
dictate. To do this, uptime and cost-
efficiencies are essential factors that ensure
stability and competitiveness.
Migrating to an app-based world
Making first-mover advantage
a reality To solve the agility problem, organisations
need to understand the core components
of how to make agility a reality in a
networking context. Firstly, businesses need
to ensure that the network is application
aware, predictable, accessible and cloud
integrated. Applications are now distributed
across IT environments – some living in the
data centre, some at the edge and some
in the cloud. This means organisations
need the ability to connect to and access
any application regardless of its location.
An application-aware network can identify
and classify applications and apply the
appropriate optimisation to ensure peak
performance per user.
When taking customer needs and the drive
for more efficient business processes into
consideration, organisations are increasingly
becoming motivated by the need to digitally
transform. At the same time, the explosion
of application traffic to the cloud, and the In a digital economy, there is little room for
sub-optimal performance of applications
as businesses, employees and customers
expect a consistently smooth and seamless
experience, even when using a cloud
network. This means that secure network
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