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Automated Edge Connectivity is Rapidly Replacing Legacy Networks
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by Matt Hiles, Chief Operating Officer at Mosaic NetworX (www.mosaicnetworx.com)
Just as cloud and SaaS deployments are fast replacing corporate data center build-outs, SD-WAN is rapidly displacing legacy networks. The reasons are many. Private, site-to- site networks rely on outdated router technology and rigid environments.
Decades of ad hoc infrastructure changes have made these networks too complex, difficult, and expensive to manage. Configuring legacy WANs is done on network devices, using a command- line interface (CLI) on each network device. This, of course, takes technical skill and expertise that enterprises have been limiting at branch locations.
Inflexible and cumbersome legacy connectivity is being quickly supplanted by more agile and cost-efficient cloud and mobility connectivity, using low-cost, Internet and 4G/LTE links. The challenge for enterprise IT teams, is cloud and mobile connectivity requires much more than legacy infrastructure was designed for.
MOVING NETWORKS TO THE CLOUD
Connecting headquarters and branch offices to the cloud with Internet connections is outpacing legacy WANs directly connecting site-to-site.
As applications move to the cloud, network architects run into challenges. And network administrators that manage these networks find themselves trying to fit a square network into
a round cloud, so to speak. While cloud offers many benefits to the organization, legacy WANs represent an obstacle to the cloud.
A not so advantageous way organizations handle traffic going to the cloud, is by routing Internet traffic back through the corporate data center over a private circuit. This Band-Aid approach creates performance problems for the applications. This is clearly not the wave
of the future, and not where IT teams should be spending their valuable time and resources. It’s these types of approaches that add more complexity to enterprise WANs.
Rather than struggling with the burdensome tasks of managing and supporting disparate,
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