As organizations depend on their network computer services more than ever before those networks have also increased in complexity and become much more difficult to manage. Today a wide area network (WAN) needs to accommodate new services and platforms and integrate with the internet and cloud infrastructure all while providing sufficient performance to meet business needs.
The advent of virtualization technologies provide a solution to this problem through the concept of a software defined wide area network (SD WAN). Unlike a traditional WAN, such networks are not defined by their physical hardware but rather through a virtual definition of the network which is much more flexible, easy to manage and offers considerable improvements in efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Managed SD WAN providers take the headache out of implementing and managing these networks for a business while significantly increasing their network speeds and at a lower overall cost.