BrandPost: The WAN Is Dead, Long Live The WAN
The SD-WAN your company is building today will likely be the last you ever use. The race to move applications and services to the cloud, and the availability of high performance broadband is fueling the greatest networking revolution in a generation.
Enterprises have long struggled with connecting users to applications, and until recently there were limited options to address these needs. Most businesses turned to carriers and purchased Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) private links for WAN connectivity. While MPLS has been a reliable means to connect, it suffers from high costs, slow speeds and an antiquated design not built for today’s traffic. In layman’s terms it’s rapidly becoming obsolete.
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