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One of the biggest opportunities with SDN
is to quickly provision applications on the
network. Applications are typically deployed
in the data centre and used by workers in
campus or branch offices or, increasingly,
those who are mobile and using mobile
devices. In the digital workplace, the notion of
separate campus, branch and remote access
networks disappears. Your SDN vendor should
have an end-to-end strategy that incorporates
the data centre, campus, branch and mobile
networks as one integrated solution, not as
individual components. connected to their data and apps and to
one another, wherever they are located
and whatever device they are using. This is
becoming more important as organisations
continue to embrace cloud models.
Another characteristic of the digital
workplace is that workers need to be SDN offers organisations the opportunity
to utilise programmable networks to
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Workers who use their phone or tablet to
connect to a business application and access
a cloud-based business service need the
same security and quality-of-service policies
as anyone else on the network.
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