Adaptive networks allow companies to be flexible in their operations and how they conduct business internally and externally which includes giving employees access to enterprise applications from anywhere, any place, in a secure and reliable manner.

In a recent news release, Macquarie Telecom announced it is abandoning Australia’s best mobile network – the Telstra network – for a new partnership with Optus to provide mobile carriage to its customers.

As we continue to reflect on the year that was 2020, the word “unprecedented” rings out, loud and clear – from the raging bushfires on a scale hitherto unknown, to the social, political, and economical ravages of the pandemic. If lessons from the bushfires and COVID-19 have taught us anything in the business world, it’s the need for preparedness for the unprecedented and the flexibility to adapt.

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.

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.