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SD-WAN is a transformational technology that promises to dramatically impact the entire enterprise networking ecosystem, bringing it into the cloud era of the future. The channel will play a major role during this exciting growth period.
In order to get the bandwidth and reliability to serve today’s mission critical applications and online services across the enterprise, businesses have to buy private links (MPLS) like a T1 line. The problem is these private links can be expensive, costing $300 or more per month for minimal (1.5Mbps) speed. These costly links can hinder the ability of IT departments to provide their business with today’s web-based services such as VOIP, online calling services, video conferencing, or virtual desktops.
Only a year ago, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) was still emerging as an application of SDN principles directed at the enterprise WAN. Since then, the SD-WAN bandwagon has grown to include not only new entrants and the incumbent networking vendors but related solutions such as WAN optimization and WAN path control, and even wireless.
Enterprise wide area networks (WANs) are expensive, their bandwidth is often used inefficiently, and they offer few automation capabilities. For enterprises with many branch offices these deficiencies inhibit the advancement of branch-office capabilities, but SDN presents an opportunity for improvement. This combination, known as SDN WAN or SD-WAN, is one of the fastest growing SDN application areas. By separating the data plane from the control plane, SDN helps distributed enterprises automate network provisioning and gain flexibility in the use of the links between their offices and data centers or cloud locations.
As quickly as 2015 passed, it left us with a clear understanding that SD-WAN would remain a hot topic for the foreseeable future – if for no other reason than for the number of players entering the space. Here are some of the ways I see SD-WAN impacting us in 2016.
The Net Neutrality fight has been all over the news this year with the latest installment on Net Neutrality coming in from T-Mobile. Private and public companies alike are tuned into to this continual saga to see how the eventual outcome will affect business and ultimately their online lives. But whether the FCC's recent ruling on Net Neutrality stands the test of time or not, there is a new technology that will provide customers fast, reliable Internet services at much lower costs than private business lines.
The software-defined WAN has come just in time to support the decentralized, cloud-based, bandwidth-hungry applications remote users demand.
Software-defined WAN can help smart cities of the future ensure IoT services function smoothly.
Virtualization and Cloud executives share their predictions for 2016. Read them in this 8th Annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
For enterprises and service providers alike interoperability means avoiding vendor lock in, but even more importantly it means achieving the ability to piece together the best solutions for their needs.
The Internet of Things will require a robust virtual network. Software-defined overlays will help ensure reliable connections.
Businesses as well as their customers demand more and more applications. Collaboration using VOIP, video conferencing and desktop sharing is commonplace. Retail experience is enhanced by in-store applications. These applications are either centralized at headquarters or increasingly at various cloud locations.
Software-defined networking (SDN) principles have expanded across all facets of computing and networking, from data center components including servers, networking and storage, to the wide area network and beyond to technologies such as wireless access.
The benefits of SD-WAN simply make the net neutrality fight outcome irrelevant for most enterprises.
The adoption of cloud-based retail applications, as well as increasing demands for agility, for example, with pop-up retail, is changing the requirements for network access.
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are designed to automate network provisioning and management for cloud-based Wide Area Networks (WANs). Both are touted as ways to deal with broad-based IT trends, but both approaches have shortcomings in their ability to fully address those trends.
Why emerging cloud-delivered WAN will pave the way for virtualized services— and drive the extension of Intel® x86 architecture from the data center to the edge of the branch-office WAN.
At the macro level, new innovations in wide area networking (WAN) are being triggered by at least four broad-based trends.
VeloCloud Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN™ company, Gartner Cool Vendor 2016 and a winner of Best Startup of Interop, simplifies branch WAN networking by automating deployment and improving performance over private, broadband Internet and LTE links for today’s increasingly distributed enterprises. VeloCloud SD-WAN includes: a choice of public, private or hybrid cloud network for enterprise-grade connection to cloud and enterprise applications; branch office enterprise appliances and optional data center appliances; software-defined control and automation; and virtual services delivery. VeloCloud has received financing from investors including NEA, Venrock, March Capital Partners, Cisco Investments and The Fabric, and is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, visit www.velocloud.com and follow the company on Twitter @VeloCloud.
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