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Written by Joe Mauk, UCaaS/CCaaS/SD-WAN Engineer at C3 Technology Advisors
With the rise of health and safety concerns around COVID-19, many organizations have taken the action required from local and federal government advisors and for the protection of their employees, they’ve been asked to work from home. Remote work demands are challenging streaming capabilities and rapid access to data and necessary applications needed to do our jobs. With normal business operations being disrupted, the need to support current customers' organizations business continuity plans are being challenged like never before.
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) has emerged as a viable and cost-effective alternative to router-based networking that allows for remote access to applications and infrastructure needed to keep business operations going. SD-WAN has the ability to optimize routing and prioritize various types of application traffic over broadband, traditional local exchange carrier access methods, or a combination of both. It evaluates network traffic patterns and chooses the most efficient route across the network in real-time to ultimately achieve the best performance possible.
There's more you can accomplish with SD-WAN. To name a few, you can:
A frequent question that comes up is how can a business incorporate SD-WAN into their existing solutions. We cover this and much more in a Beers with Engineers webinar led by C3 Technology Advisors.
In a recent virtual event, panelists discussed deployment models that include placing edge devices in the cloud, to provide additional control and optimization for IaaS hosted applications. This approach to network design and simplified management is vital to the evolution of the WAN from a traditional hub and spoke that was difficult to configure, especially at scale, and limited in how it served applications in the cloud.
SD-WAN management nodes can be stood up virtually in the US Signal Cloud or physically in a data center. What is the benefit?
Yep. There’s another acronym that needs to be discussed: SASE (pronounced sass-ee). It stands for secure access service edge and represents what many in the IT industry consider to be the future of network protection. It’s also the focus of US Signal’s latest Beers with Engineers webinar, in which US Signal IT [...]
US Signal Announces the Arrival of SD-WAN and SASE Services in the Near Future May 4, 2023 US Signal, a leading provider of data center technologies, cloud solutions, and managed services, has announced today that it will soon offer two new services to its customers: Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and [...]
Ask someone to name a cloud services provider (CSP). Chances are the answer will be Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, or Google. They’re the big names out there largely because of longevity, business volume, and good marketing. But bigger isn’t always better. Depending on your business needs, [...]