Traditional networks are no longer compatible with supporting businesses moving to the cloud. The market is slowly pacing towards the Software-Defined Wide Area Network, or SD-WAN, as the trusted, most reliable network. If there are multiple distant office locations retrieving data and running applications hosted in the Cloud, each branch relies on speedy and dependable connectivity. There’s no need to talk about the work-from-home employees, remote workers, and contract workers who need reliable, fast connections to your Cloud software and applications.
The transition from Traditional WAN
Traditional WANs need to keep up with all these increasing network demands. These connections, like MPLS, use special hardware circuits and systems to connect geographically distant branch offices to a central network. With all the branches of your business pointed at the Cloud from a distance, bandwidth could be below with high latency on the traditional WAN networks. It may make work slow, frustrating, and cost your business valuable time.
With SD-WAN, you can scale bandwidth if your company begins to increase. Along with that, firewall and bandwidth are distributed to each location without the need for IT management on-site at each branch location.
Cost savings, performance, and agility
SD-WAN intelligently directs the traffic and provides reasonable control over application/network performance. It reduces the cost for IT organizations as they no longer have to monitor and manage the traffic tediously. As your business requires expanding network and more bandwidth, SD-WAN can help scale accordingly. On traditional WAN systems, configuring existing or new infrastructures needs monotonous tinkering with CLI (command-line interface) code; in contrast, the SD-WAN allows the IT administrators to efficiently and quickly make network configurations to all the branches on one platform and at one time.
Bottom line
Utilizing the Cloud without SD-WAN is like having a luxurious sports car without any road to drive fast. CloudMyLab Offers a Fully Built Cisco SDWAN On-demand Lab Infrastructure with the latest software and licensing. When you have data and products in the Cloud, ensure reliable and fast access to it with SD-WAN connectivity.
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