As enterprises expand, through organic growth or acquisition, they need to support the IT needs of more distributed locations. These often include teams in shared office spaces versus enterprise-owned or leased facilities. To serve remote locations and users, enterprises are rapidly moving toward cloud-based applications including Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS).
As always, IT teams are under pressure to contain costs and are turning to Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) to play a role by replacing legacy Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and other private networking solutions. Beyond cost savings, SD-WAN – when engineered and managed well – can improve the quality of service, security and ease the burden of managing complex enterprise networks.
