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WAN deployments (by 71% and 66% of
respondents respectively) and was considered
the second most important feature for SD-
WAN (with 52% placing it top).
Equally, though, despite the increased
attack surface, virtualised networks
ultimately improve security since they
allow policy to be applied network-wide
automatically through software. Indeed,
when asked about their key drivers for
looking at specific network services,
security came in the top three for all the
technologies mentioned.
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It was the number one driver for hybrid
WAN (above increased application
visibility and reducing overheads). It was
number two for SD-WAN (after speed and
flexibility) and NFV (after better bandwidth
utilisation). And for APM it came in third
(after better bandwidth utilisation and
speed and flexibility).
Conclusion
New networking technologies have
huge potential to improve performance,
boost efficiency and agility, as well as
easing visibility and control. We believe
organisations should proactively evaluate,
run proof of concept trials and build these
technologies into their networking roadmap,
but they must be clear about how and when
to take advantage of them.
Getting the right balance of innovation
and risk for your business and bearing in
mind the approach, skills, services and help
available to you is key. And of course, any
deployment needs to tie in with your business
strategy and requirements, and the demands
of Digital Transformation. n
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