INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business
Software will save
the network
Legacy network
technologies can
no longer guarantee
quick and reliable
connections explains
Greg Montjoie,
Executive: SDN/
Internet Access at
Internet Solutions.
Greg Montjoie, Executive: SDN/Internet Access at Internet Solutions
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onsumers, clients and stakeholders
no longer accept ‘the network
is down’ as an explanation for
service or business failure.
Just like manual exchanges were
soon overrun by the demands of
early telephone services, today’s
networks are strained by the business
demand for more bandwidth, more
optimisation, more dynamism, more
value. Modern wide area networks
are all about hardware and humans.
Hubs, routers, switches, proxy servers
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and firewalls, network architects and
engineers to install the hardware, then
connect, configure and test it manually.
Optimising an existing network with
limited analytics and inaccurate
performance benchmarking is difficult.
Customising a network is impossible.
As data traffic and network complexity
between business sites becomes more
substantial, as devices are added to the
enterprise WAN and as the likelihood of
remote offices and branches in multiple
markets increases, legacy network
“I anticipate that
software-defined
networking
(SDN) will disrupt
business ICT as
dramatically as the
cloud did.”
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