For modern businesses in the throes of migrating critical business applications to the cloud and needing more bandwidth for high-speed communications to remote offices and workforces, solving traditional WAN bandwidth limitations is now critical. In this world, the traditional way of building WANs has become something of a misfit.

In the wake of the pandemic, with so many workers continuing to work-from-home – either permanently or in a flexible work arrangement ­– mobile devices are now being used as a primary communication channel. With home-workers utilising mobile devices and communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams, businesses need to capture conversations from mobile devices across wireless and IP connections.

Delivering immediate benefits to businesses, software-defined wide-area networking, known as SD-WAN, improves network performance, reduces downtime, and offers greater visibility and control over network traffic.

With the new year comes the opportunity to take a close look at mobile data security. The advent of COVID-19 last year forced many companies to pivot and modernise, adopting new technologies at a rapid pace to keep the wheels of their business turning.

Digital identities are a crucial component of a healthy mobile eco-system. They provide a right to access information, services and other company resources, as well as help companies identify the role-based policies, aligned with individuals, associated with the mobile device.