Ciaran Roche, CTO of Coevolve, said in the seventh of our series of WAN Wednesday presentations that companies are “accelerating the rate of adoption of technologies such as SD-WAN”.
MPLS incurs high costs, especially as “the network is only useful at the location it services”, said Roche, one of the co-founders of Coevolve. It is “too rigid”, he added.
“An internet-based model is more suited” to today’s needs – and costs less. The Coronavirus pandemic is “an opportunity for companies to test more low-cost options” that also connect more of their user base.
“In many enterprises you can distribute the user base and have people sitting at the end of a home internet connection,” said Roche. Customers are distributing “even large CAD files” in this way.
Roche spoke in the 20-minute webinar about how companies should distribute risk. But companies are re-evaluated existing contracts, he suggested, and diverting spending to new-generation technologies.
All seven of our WAN Wednesday webinars are available free of charge online.
