SDN Offers Hidden Benefits That Enterprises Shouldn’t Overlook
March 22, 2017 Leave a comment
Gary Barton – Analyst, Business Network and IT Services
Summary Bullets:
• Core network enhancements can benefit enterprises from a network performance and service cost point of view.
• Flexible bandwidth services and pricing models are maturing and are worth a second look.
In 2015 and early 2016, SDN was the buzzword du jour of the telecoms industry, but the attention has now shifted to SD-WAN. Perhaps this is inevitable since SD-WAN is the newer technology and is at the forefront of several recent or upcoming service launches from providers such as Telstra, Orange Business Services, and BT, amongst others. SD-WAN also seems to offer more tangible benefits to the average enterprise customer, particularly those with a large number of smaller sites, or those seeking to adopt virtualised network functions such as firewalls and session boarder controllers. Read more of this post
