Wide Area Networks (WANs) served as the trusted means for connecting across long distances that joined organizations’ data centers with their remote branch offices. While the complexities, costs and limitations of WANs hasn’t changed over the last three decades, the enterprises’ needs have. Today, businesses operate critical applications in the cloud, have bandwidth-hungry and latency-intolerant real-time communications and collaboration, and need to control communication. And they need to do all that securely, efficiently and cost effectively. Enter SD-WAN – or software-defined wide area networks – a technology that resolves the WAN challenge by providing the dynamic controls that truly put the network at the service of the business. In this episode of the Ask Selma podcast, we’ll explore not just how it works but why it works for organizations that need a better way to connect their systems and their data.

Selma Wei, Citrix

Chris Gonsalves, The 2112 Group

Special Guest: Ronan Murray, Director at Edge7 Networks