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need to seize these business opportunities
through collaboration and innovation.
When it comes to the Digital Transformation
of industry (Industry 4.0), the service sector’s
increasingly intimate personal relationship
with customers and the exciting cognitive
Smart City developments we see across the
region, the network really is everything.
Luc Serviant, Vice
President Middle East
and Africa, Orange
Business Services
It’s the network that provides the tracks
along which the apps and data flow but it’s
getting complex with hybrid cloud and other
options multiplying the possibilities and also
the complexities.
This is the point at which we see the future
of the network turning soft, with software
defined networks such as SD-WAN creating
new possibilities to accelerate the innovation
we need to achieve the region’s economic
visions and increase flexibility for expansion,
facilitate mergers and acquisitions, simplify
the journey of the customer IT manager and
reduce costs and complexity.
Our partner Riverbed Technology’s recent
regional survey showed that Software-
Defined WAN (SD-WAN) adoption in the
Middle East is following the global trend,
with nearly 50% of enterprises already
having initial discussions around its adoption
and 78% of organisations agreeing that SD-
WAN will be a critical part of their network
infrastructure within the next five years.
For those regional survey respondents, the