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SD-WAN is a relatively new technology that is being adopted by many organizations in order to improve their WAN performance. SD-WAN offers a number of advantages over traditional WAN solutions, including improved performance, lower costs and easier deployment. One of the main benefits of SD-WAN is its ability to improve video performance. Video is one of the most demanding applications when it comes to network bandwidth.
The cloud is increasingly becoming a popular option for businesses of all sizes. Cloud-based solutions offer many advantages over traditional on-premises solutions, including scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. One type of cloud-based solution that is gaining popularity among businesses is a cloud-based phone system. A cloud-based phone system is a telephone service that is delivered via the internet, rather than through traditional phone lines. A cloud-based phone system is different from a traditional phone system in that it does not require any physical hardware or equipment on-site.
Cloud-based phone systems are becoming more and more popular due to their many advantages over traditional on-premises PBX systems. Cloud-based phone systems are highly scalable, flexible and offer a wide range of features at a much lower cost than traditional phone systems. In addition, cloud-based phone systems offer a host of features that are simply not available with on-premises PBX systems. Moreover, a cloud-based phone system is able to grow with the business and can easily be adapted to changes in accordance with enterprise needs. However, here are some reasons why one should choose to consider a cloud-based phone system for a business.
The year 2020 has witnessed major upheavals around the globe including floods and forest fires due to climate change and spread of viruses. It has forced many organizations to organize work from home practices for employees to make sure smoother running of their businesses. As COVID-19 still dominates working life today. Office staff from around the world have settled into their working from home setups. At such a divergent point, effective communication between office employees and managing bodies becomes of crucial importance. Team managers require strong communication medium to stay in contact with their teams. That is the reason, it has given rise to a record increase in video conferencing over these years of pandemic. Many global businesses are forced to adopt the traditional face to face practices of video conferencing.
With an increase in cyber-crimes across the globe, cyber threats are becoming disastrous for vulnerable victim organisations. Whether these are phishers, scammers, viruses or even bots, they can be very dangerous to corporate data. During the days of the pandemic, corporate data had become more vulnerable to cyber attacks with orders to work from home. Hackers across the world are exploiting remote working networks during these unfavorable times, taking advantage of very minor human errors and weak network security layers.
Software defined – wide area networking (SD–WAN) is among the most dominant network technologies that enterprises are rapidly adopting. Due to its quality of services, enhanced cloud application performance, minimal architectural complexity, simple adoption and reduced cost, it is becoming popular and rapidly transforming the network technologies. Across the IT ecosystem, tons of organisations and enterprises are rapidly shifting towards the software defined – wide area networking (SD–WAN) solution because of its provision of efficient, agile and integrated application connections resulting in a faster, better and frictionless network, which is the priority of IT specialists and network managers across the globe.
SD-WAN is rapidly capturing the market of MPLS, which was dominating for decades. But both technologies have their limitations as well as their advantages. Though infant SD-WAN seems reliant on MPLS in some major fields, this reliance is not unavoidable. SD-WAN can still altogether bypass MPLS. But it should not be recommended. A perfect hybrid of SD-WAN and MPLS can benefit business organizations in terms of cost-saving, increased security, reduced packet loss, reduced latency, and performance enhancement.
Versa Networks and VMware are two major companies providing SD–WAN solutions. Along with other market giants, these are also in competition with each other by offering state-of-the-art capabilities to their customers. As we know, each business has its own requirements oriented around its customers’ needs. Here, we are going to take a technical overview of the SD–WAN solutions that these companies are providing to analyse their usability for a variety of enterprises.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone systems are common telephony technologies for multimedia sessions and voice communication over sophisticated networks of Internet Protocol (IP), for example over Internet. These VoIP phone systems are becoming a common sight of communication protocols in enterprises. In comparison to its conventional counterpart, PSTN, Voice over IP is capable to offer many advantages. For businesses, it offers a highly verstile breadth of servives and features, highly quality audio communication, easy-to-manage services, and reduced cost for distant calls.
According to updated reports of the Dell’Oro Group, there are five top SD–WAN vendors who are running toe-to-toe for supremacy in the SD–WAN market share. The year 2019 was seen as a breakout year for the adoption of SD–WAN when it surpassed a $1 billion market share. According to already mentioned reports, Cisco, Versa Network, VMware, Silver Peak and Fortinet are holding high ranking positions, as these top SD–WAN market leaders accounted for a 60% accumulated share in the generated revenue in 2019. But none of them surpassed a 20% share of the market, which shows a high potential for competition among the market giants for dominance. That is why these are still early days for penetration into the market.
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