Making connections with SD-Wan, a new risk-free way to network

A new generation of SD-Wan promises a faster, safer, more efficient alternative to traditional wide area networks, writes Róisín Kiberd

Nicola Mortimer, commercial director of Eir Evo: ‘SD-Wan supports customers who wish to move away from traditional Wan topologies in a risk-free way’

It might not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about the ways in which the pandemic changed everyday working life, but lockdown placed a new demand on businesses to maintain connection capabilities and security, with systems that were often newly migrated to the cloud.

While SD-Wan sounds little like the name of a forgotten Jedi from Star Wars, it’s actually an acronym that stands for ‘Software-Defined Wide Area Network’. It ...