More and more experts agree that traditional enterprise WANs are not designed to meet the needs of today’s modern business.
In this sense, they point out that these WAN management platforms are designed to provide connectivity between the company’s remote offices and branches to a centralized data center where most of the company’s applications are hosted, but the reality is that today’s world is very different.
The rise and widespread adoption of cloud computing services—both SaaS applications and IaaS workloads—means that mission-critical business applications don’t just reside in the corporate data center.
Too often, however, companies continue to transport WAN traffic to a data center before connecting employees to cloud-based platforms, adding unnecessary cost and often creating bottlenecks. In addition, traditional WANs can also be cumbersome to manage, leading to inefficiencies and potential security flaws.
SD-WAN technology, on the other hand, solves all those problems, since among other things, these software-defined wide area networks have an application policy controller to dynamically manage WAN traffic across multiple links.
That the activity of companies improves when they bet on SD-WANshow studies like the one just published by IDC and that collects the testimonies of those responsible for digital transformation who maintain operators distributed among several headquarters and who, in this case, have opted for Cisco SD-WAN technology. Some of the main conclusions reached are the following:
- They get 2.25 times more bandwidth.
- They report 65% lower connectivity costs for equivalent bandwidth.
- They report 33% more efficiency in management compared to WAN networks.
- They are 59% faster when incorporating new services.
- They are 58% faster at applying policy and configuration changes.
- They report 95% less unplanned downtime.
- They reduce the latency of your applications by almost half.
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