There’s no denying mobile connectivity is an essential part of our lives both in the business world and at home. With 5G so important for powering next-generation health care, education, farms, factories, and cities, as momentum builds in the rollout of 5G, innovative companies are already developing new business models to take advantage of it.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has named the overarching theme for 2022 as ‘Have you been hacked?’. Cyber security is important for every business and individual. The ACSC highlights the first steps as turning on automatic software updates, regularly backing up your devices, switching on multi-factor authentication, using passphrases, securing mobile devices, and watching out for cyber scams.

Distributed network architecture, high network maintenance costs, and suboptimal data security create a triple threat for companies across the country. Businesses everywhere continue to battle under-performing networks, but if our experience at Telstra Vantage this year is anything to go by, the SD-WAN secret is definitely out. Software-defined WAN (or SD-WAN) provides a cost-effective answer to these three challenges and more.

With a various geo-political factors driving costs up globally, everything from fuel prices to shipping costs as well as shortages of key raw materials exacerbated by the shipping and logistics challenges are putting significant inflationary pressure on prices.

Picture this typical converged communications scenario: Your country-wide mobile workforce taps into your mobile network and connects securely to access your corporate data and applications on their managed device. Secure user authorisation prevents security breaches and compliance with best practices in user privacy and data protection is a given.