Do More with MPLS

VoIP and collaboration tools, provisioned out of ever fewer data centers to an increasingly dispersed corporate environment, along with rising use of SaaS, drive bandwidth growth and rising need for predictable, stable, real-time WAN and Internet performance. To deliver new services to users in an evolving branch and telework environment, IT must compress, condition, and control network traffic to guarantee acceptable performance, and to ensure capacity goes to applications according to their organizational priority. IT needs more visibility into traffic too, if it is to set and meet realistic SLAs. Now is the time for organizations to set or refresh their optimization plans, to reassess architectural and vendor choices in light of new needs, and to look at combining approaches (asymmetric with overlay, carrier-cloud with symmetric) to best match solutions to resources and needs.