Casting the net wide

As connectivity becomes everything, businesses not only have more complex networking requirements, but also demand greater flexibility. In addition, with the rise of the mini-multinational, more and more businesses have branch offices in far-flung locations

Eilish O’Connor, director of cloud solutions at Viatel

Time was when a wide area network (WAN) was a complicated, slow and expensive piece of IT infrastructure that facilitated, just about, communication between work groups and sites across a company. Today, however, it actually works. Or at least it can—and the difference is SD-WAN.

SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networking) is the hot topic in networking today, with the early adopter phase closing as the technology finds itself on the cusp of mainstream ...