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CIO Whitepaper: WAN Evolution for the Cloud Era

CIO Whitepaper: WAN Evolution for the Cloud Era
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Wide area networks (WANs) are critical infrastructure for every enterprise. The WAN connects data centers, branches and users, providing the transport network for enterprise data, access to applications and links between businesses, suppliers, and customers.

Technology transitions and changing business needs are driving WAN evolution at an accelerated pace. As networks become more distributed, they are becoming more complex. Most organizations depend on networks to reach their customers, sell their products, process transactions, manage supply chains, gather business information, and distribute workloads. A well designed, well run network can deliver competitive advantage; a suboptimal network will hold the enterprise back.

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