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Ebook - What To Consider When Evaluating SD-WAN PDF
Ebook - What To Consider When Evaluating SD-WAN PDF
INTRODUCTION 1
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INTRODUCTION
Enterprises currently face challenges regarding §§Performance degradation with the growth of cloud
the price, performance, and flexibility of traditional traffic
wide area networks (WANs). Aggressive growth in §§Inadequate redundancy and resiliency
the adoption of public cloud services (a projected
§§Lack of application-aware connectivity
86% spike between 2014 and 2018)1 is forcing
organizations to look elsewhere for a more effective To better manage WAN investments, enterprises are
network solution to address distributed traffic across adopting a new approach for their distributed branch
remote sites and branch offices. office networks. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN)
offers improved performance, agility, and operational
Some of the specific issues organizations face with
flexibility plus significant cost savings. But not all SD-
their traditional WANs include:
WAN solutions are created equal.
§§High total cost of ownership (TCO)
1
Andrew Lerner and Neil Rickard, “Market Guide for WAN Edge Infrastructure,” Gartner,
§§Lengthy provisioning cycles March 2017.
1 INTRODUCTION
01 PROBLEMS WITH TRADITIONAL
WAN SOLUTIONS
§§Healthcare. Healthcare organizations typically have §§Manufacturing. Like retail, modern manufacturing
numerous remote sites consisting of users that and industrial organizations are tapping an assortment
need access to SaaS services used for electronic of coordinated SaaS applications to better run many
medical records (EMR), patient care, accounting, and different job functions across diverse territories and
finance, among other functions. As each of these even international boundaries. The rigorous conditions
requires substantial bandwidth, traditional WANs and critical nature of some of these operations means
simply cannot keep up with expanding cloud-based that networked applications cannot be constrained by
performance needs across an extended healthcare performance limits without serious consequences. A
infrastructure. A secure SD-WAN solution provides secure SD-WAN solution offers affordable and agile
flexible, affordable bandwidth to better address bandwidth to support functions such as automated
the growing cloud application needs of healthcare supply chain management, international sales, and
professionals, while better serving patient outcomes industrial controls that maintain both worker safety
and keeping private medical information safe. and optimal productivity.
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