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SD-WAN: Where Agility Meets Assurance
As the digital landscape evolves, businesses face a critical choice: adapt or lag behind. Whether you’re expanding, optimizing, or empowering mobile workforces, the Cloud beckons. But here’s the twist: bandwidth-hungry communication and secure access to mission-critical apps must coexist while cyber threats loom large. Outdated networks? They’re the IT team’s migraine. And the price tag? Ouch.
Enter SD-WAN: the superhero that untangles the web. It’s robust, reliable, and security-savvy. Imagine networks amplified—more responsive, more bandwidth, less hassle. The future? It’s here, and it’s cost-effective.
What is SD-WAN?
SD-WAN is the application of software-based network technologies that virtualize WAN connections. SD-WAN abstracts network hardware to create a virtualized network overlay, offering cloud-based management and enabling users to connect to applications from anywhere. This solution provides the manageability, performance, and reliability that today’s fast-moving enterprises expect.
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Key benefits
Improves performance
Improves performancePrioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video. Reduce packet loss and latency issues with reliable, high-performance connections.
Enables cloud usage
Employees can directly access cloud applications regardless of location and refrain from burdening the core network with additional traffic to manage and secure.
Boosts security
Q9 provide a wide range of integrated and extended networking and security capabilities, including service-chaining and layering on SASE to help prevent data loss, downtime, regulatory violations, and legal liabilities.
Reduces costs
Companies lower operating expenses when switching from expensive MPLS lines to community broadband and low-cost local Internet.
Lowers complexity
Ease the IT burden by using broadband to offload non-critical business apps, automate monitoring tasks, and manage traffic through a centralized controller.
Secure branch networking
With applications and operations rapidly migrating to the Cloud, security must follow the user and not be tied to a physical location. This is where Secure Access Service Edge (SASE, pronounced “sassy”) comes in. SASE is a network architecture that combines SD-WAN and security into a singular cloud framework. With its Network Security as a Service offering, Q9 couples SD-WAN technology with SASE principles to provide secure networks for organizations trending towards remote and branch operations.
Learn more about SASE. What is it, why now, and is it right for you?
The future of SD-WAN: Edge network intelligence
Most organizations lack visibility of their end-user and IoT devices on their network. Edge network intelligence (ENI) fills that gap. ENI offers a complete view of every user’s entire data plane (wired and wireless) allowing IT teams to locate issues such as latency via automatically generated issue tickets. In addition, this solution promotes improved performance, robust security, and self-healing through wireless and wired LAN, SD-WAN, and secure access service edge (SASE).
SD-WAN deployments will grow by around 18% annually through 2024, with managed SD-WAN deployments reaching at least 60% of enterprise locations.
SD-WAN as a Service: Finding the right partner
Identifying the right partner for your managed SD-WAN is crucial for organizations looking to build a network architecture that can support high-level business imperatives. Providers should have expertise in smoothly transforming all legacy networks into a cloud-powered SD-WAN architecture, regardless of industry. They must also be entrenched in application modernization and provide a critical eye to your organization’s security situation.
Learn the key to finding the right SD-WAN provider for your organization.
"Having a multi-national network means having to rely on multiple carriers because there is no one carrier that can cover our entire footprint. Managing this network was not only a challenge, but holding carriers accountable to poor network performance was impossible. VMware SD-WAN™ allowed us to create a reliable network over disparate connections, and ultimately hold our carriers responsible for meeting SLAs."