Five Emerging WAN Trends That Will Shape NetOps Strategy

Assure Your Modern WAN for What’s to Come

Advancements in technology have transformed the way businesses connect their offices and workforce. Hybrid or software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are helping enterprises improve flexibility and scalability while enabling employees to share information across different locations seamlessly. Public cloud and software as a service (SaaS) have similarly enhanced the user experience. And at the same time, enterprises and organizations are deploying advanced security techniques like SASE and Zero Trust to protect user data.

The growing popularity and need for these technologies have meant that IT and operations teams managing their enterprise networks must contend with an increasingly interconnected ecosystem, complete with third parties they do not own nor control. Therefore awareness of the latest WAN trends and technologies is the first step to assuring a secure and reliable WAN infrastructure for your organization's future.

In this eBook, you'll learn:

• Five macro trends shaping how IT designs, implements, and manages its WAN infrastructure.
• The different stages in WAN automation sophistication and what they entail for IT and operations leaders and practitioners
• Recommendations for managing the trends and technologies presented for better planning and system design, improved digital agility, and excellent experiences that drive business outcomes