Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories. Bruce Johnson of Cradlepoint examines the versatility of SD-WAN, and the different ways it can combine with other network security tech.
Wireless networking is almost ubiquitous in the enterprise today. In a recent study, 86 percent of IT executive respondents said they now use wireless wide-area networks (WAN) as their primary connectivity option for at least a portion of their sites. This means many IT leaders are realizing the cost and connectivity benefits of a wireless approach.
Wired networking is far from dead, but as dependency on Wireless WAN grows, IT leaders must be prepared to adjust to the types of traffic — and the sheer volume of it — traveling through their networks. To safely and securely make this adjustment, IT leaders must invest in a combination of the latest software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and security technologies to ensure their wireless WANs can grow efficiently at scale.
SD-WAN and 5G
Many enterprises already acknowledge how SD-WAN can amplify speed and efficiency at the network edge. According to the EMA report, 71 percent of IT executive respondents said they use SD-WAN vendors to accelerate WAN. As enterprises moved away from relying entirely on wired connections, SD-WAN’s ability to recognize and prioritize different transport types made it the best technology to transfer data for broadband and wireless WAN securely.
As more enterprises depend on 4G and 5G technologies, thereby introducing more transport types into their networks, SD-WAN will continue to be the best option to establish connectivity securely. This will be especially important with 5G s ..
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