From the course: Introduction to SD-WAN
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Common desired benefits
From the course: Introduction to SD-WAN
Common desired benefits
- [Instructor] Do you know what organizations and companies expect from their network and WAN? They expect a lot from it. First, companies expect it to prioritize traffic and secure it. Companies also want to reduce the cost and complexity of configuring and maintaining their networks, they want to increase the bandwidth of the organization's network and WAN with minimal cost, and of course, companies want to increase the satisfaction of their employees and customers from the stable quality of the network. Providing a consistent high quality application experience is top of mind for most businesses today. Companies want internet traffic as well as network guest users to go directly to the internet and not use the organization's network. That's because it's better to offload this traffic locally rather than consume WAN bandwidth by routing it through a centralized data center for internet services. It's very important…