Benefits of SD-WAN for Unified Communications
Software News from Bizcommunity.com:
Many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of unified communications (UC) as an essential tool that allows knowledge workers to collaborate using voice, video, desktop sharing, instant messaging and presence. However, as these organisations begin to recognize the operational efficiencies these tools bring to their business and plan to implement it, their IT departments are left in the shadows to support, standardize and secure these deployments.
Today’s workers demand UC solutions and will find ways of achieving UC, even if they have to do so unofficially. This has resulted in a ‘shadow IT’ concept whereby workers use services without explicit organizational approval or process, which has left IT departments in a position where control and security are compromised. One of the most beneficial features of using software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) in your workplace is that it allows organizations to regain control of their IT activity while still allowing workers to maximize their user experience when using UC and other cloud-based services.
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How does SD-WAN achieve this?
- It optimizes, yet simplifies, the use of multiple public and private links
- Separates data, control and orchestration plane and delivers network-wide policy and security
- Reduces recurring and capex costs of wide area networking
- Simplifies wide area networks with zero-touch deployment
- Simplifies insertion of services
