Many enterprises are working with extensive network hardware, feeling strangled by the complexity of the hardware life cycle and the ways it impacts their infrastructure. Most eagerly look forward to the day they can make a move to adopt a virtual network solution and exchange cumbersome hardware for devices that are flexible and designed to grow with changing business needs.
When you talk with a decision maker in enterprise IT, their wish list for a solution is long and all-encompassing. They want scalability, lowered costs, flexibility, and increased visibility. They also want to have bandwidth on demand, erasing the ongoing challenge of effectively managing today’s bring your own device (BYOD) business culture. While this picture of the perfect infrastructure solution for networking may seem a bit pie-in-the-sky, the solutions are not that far off in the future.
The need for virtual networks is geographically-driven. Enterprises are facing multiple changes that demand a virtual network that is flexible and scalable. Remote employees comprise increasingly bigger percentages of a company’s workforce and are impacting network needs across industries. In addition, enterprises are embracing strategies that prioritize local connections with customers.
As a result, enterprises need an infrastructure solution that allows them to have flexible, scalable network access. When a new branch is opened, it’s necessary to get it online as quickly as possible and have central control and visibility. Options like Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking will enable enterprises to scale up or down and offer services on demand.
The benefits of virtual network infrastructure: As enterprises incorporate virtual technology into their networks, they’ll experience important, measurable benefits:
- Scalability that allows the enterprise to only purchase the network access they require at a given time. Subscriptions are sold in a pay-as-you-go model that allows for easy flexibility.
- Hardware flexibility will give enterprises the ability to use a single device to address multiple infrastructure requirements.
- Increased visibility in a central location that allows enterprise IT personnel to view branch locations and various types of internet traffic.
- Prioritization of mission-critical traffic will provide a way to distinguish between different types of data and other information traveling over the network.
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