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The Washington Network Enhances Customers’ Network Performance With New SD-WAN Technology
Leading Unified Communications
Provider Brings New Technology to Replace MPLS
Alexandria,
VA — July 22,2017 – The Washington Network, a leader in unified communications,
announced today that the company will now
offer SD-WAN
(Software-Defined Networking in a Wide Area Network). SD-WAN simplifies the
management and operation of a WAN (Wide Area Network) by separating the
networking hardware from its control mechanism. A key application of an SD-WAN
is to allow companies to build higher-performance WANs using lower-cost Internet access, enabling businesses
to partially or wholly replace more expensive private WAN connection
technologies such as MPLS. Gartner, a marketing
research firm, has predicted that by the end of 2019, 30% of enterprises will
deploy SD-WAN technology in their branches.
“We continue
to see more and more innovation in the world of business technology every
single year,” stated Rick Endres, President of The Washington Network. “Our
philosophy has always been to foresee emergent technologies that can help our
customers increase their profitability and gain a competitive advantage in the
marketplace. SD-WAN development provides us with a new way to enhance the
performance, profitability, security and safety of our customers’ networks,
which is why we’ve made the decision to deploy this solution.”
SD-WAN is a way to create a
controlled-environment, private network. This benefits companies who are in the
midst of virtualization and are taking their businesses more fully to the cloud
because SD-WAN itself, is a cloud-based transport. When data becomes
independent and can run on any transport protocol that is needed, including 3G,
4G LTE, MPLS, Internet, Ethernet, Serial or Wi-Fi, businesses
using SD-WAN have total transport flexibility, which means more efficient
operations or greater cost savings for present-day technology utilization. This
development has provided unprecedented flexibility to organizations that are already
migrating their networks to the cloud, which is nearly everyone in the modern
day business world. “While lower costs tend to benefit everyone, the fastest
adopters of SD-WAN are organizations who need highly functioning teams working
across more than one physical location because the more complicated the
organization’s network, the more it can be streamlined, simplified and made
leaner,” added Endres.
Just as The Washington Network was an
early adopter of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), which has proven to be a
highly effective mode of data transport, SD-WAN offers the next layer to take
this even further. “While our expert staff is very excited by the technical
aspects of this technology, our customer-facing team is excited by how this new
technology supports our customers’ desire to increase their profitability with
new technology. When we introduced SIP into our customers’, we saw improved
performance, dramatic cost savings, more secure networks and a better overall
experience with technology. SD-WAN is simply the next step in our evolution,”
concluded Endres.