{"id":8201,"date":"2015-12-01T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macquarietelecom.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T23:59:38","slug":"saas-enabled-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/saas-enabled-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"How SaaS is Overwhelming the traditional WAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mid-sized businesses in Australia are embracing the cloud at an increasing pace today, as a means of deploying bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications faster and more efficiently to stakeholders. Stakeholders that are increasingly remote to the corporate network (These include LAN\/WAN connected users, mobile workforce, channel partners and customers.)<\/p>\n

Why bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games Applications are being Deployed in Mid-sized Business Today.<\/h2>\n
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Caption: Traditional Corporate bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games Setup<\/p><\/div>\n

The traditional best practice model for bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games networks was you buy enterprise applications from software vendors. We house them in our in-house data centre and deliver them to our users over a private network \u2013 usually, an MPLS WAN delivered with DSL or Ethernet connections between all sites, with any to any connectivity between the users at each location. It was internally focused and contained.<\/p>\n

MPLS<\/a> and QOS<\/a> are, for simplicity, tools to help bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games network managers handle the performance, privacy and prioritization of the different bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications and data across the Wide Area Network (WAN) between their sites connected to their Local Area Networks (LAN) at each location.<\/p>\n

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Users at every other site accessed the bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games through the centralized firewall gateway site.<\/p>\n

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With the advent of high-speed bandwidth, low-cost access options exploded.<\/p>\n

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Cable broadband provided 40-80 Mbs and, for those with NBN, 100 Mbs is now possible and up to 1 Gig\/sec available for bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games NBN and dark fibre services.<\/p>\n

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Caption: Increase of bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games speeds through new technology<\/p><\/div>\n

How bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games Changed With the Availability of Broadband Technology.<\/h3>\n

In the early days, bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games bandwidth was very expensive and slow, especially over the vast distances between Australian cities thousands of kilometres apart.<\/p>\n

Application developers designed simple bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games that kept data transmission to a minimum and avoided graphical interfaces.<\/p>\n

The explosion of Internet bandwidth has changed this, and bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games are now much richer in functionality – full of multimedia (video, chat, pictures, etc.) and rich graphical interfaces, all of which require lots of bandwidth.<\/p>\n

The big problem with application deployment traditionally was that it needed a significant amount\u00a0of capital to buy the application and then it was slow to build and slow to deploy to users.<\/p>\n

It was also usually expensive to support, requiring constant upgrades, customisation and maintenance costs.<\/p>\n

Software vendors realised that they could simplify things. They could do all the running, support, and modifications better than the individual businesses.<\/p>\n

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We see the adoption of bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games in 3 key areas:\"Saas<\/p>\n

As depicted above, the order of which applications are shifting to bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games are often firstly i) A focus on revenue generating apps, like a CRM system, and the reason they being shifted is because the bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games provider can maintain and look after the application better than you can, including things like bug fixes, availability, patches and compliance.<\/p>\n

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Caption: Chart showing that bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications can be new revenue generators<\/p><\/div>\n

While bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games has proven to save money for a given functionality in most cases, most businesses justify bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games by the fast \u2018deploy, scale, move\u2019 model.<\/p>\n

Gartner<\/a>, the IT industry analyst, predicts that 75% of all traffic running on business networks will be bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications by 2017.<\/p>\n

What that really means is that 75% of bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games will reside in a data centre remote to the traditional corporate network.<\/p>\n

We are certainly seeing this trend play out in the thousands of bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games networks we manage today.<\/p>\n

The majority of bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games in a company are no longer in the network \u2013 they are in the cloud.<\/p>\n

As a carriage provider, we have to find a way to bring the cloud into the heart of the network, along with your internal data centre that will continue to serve those legacy bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games.<\/p>\n

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Caption: List of some of the major bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games providers by type<\/p><\/div>\n

Going beyond Software-as-a-Service, there is also an entire ecosystem of \u201cas-a-Service\u201d emerging, which becomes available to your business once you embrace bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games and the cloud.<\/p>\n

Here are two quick examples. First, your fixed-line IP voice services can be delivered as-a-Service, where each site just has handsets and the rest (i.e., the PBX and value-added services such as unified communications) can be delivered from the cloud.<\/p>\n

The second example is mobility solutions, where the mobile devices remain with very broad choices and all the back-end processes, carriage and services are provided \u201cas-a-Service\u201d.<\/p>\n

How Router, Switch and Firewall Technology Has Evolved to Meet the Needs of Mid-Sized bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games.<\/h3>\n

In my 21 years in telecommunications talking to bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games businesses, I\u2019m happy to say that right now there is more innovation in technology than I have ever seen at any time before.<\/p>\n

All of which plays to the bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games and IT needs of a mid-sized bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games.<\/p>\n

Until relatively recently, to connect a site with a LAN bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games needed a number of devices, often with a unique OS and hardware\/software maintenance schedules.<\/p>\n

The good news is that all these devices can be merged into a single management interface and virtualized functionality.<\/p>\n

Previously, each site had a LAN switch connecting all the local users. Today bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games have got to have Wi-Fi – a big cost-saver, fast to deploy, and critical to the way we work today.<\/p>\n

So bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games need a powerful Wi-Fi ecosystem. Bluetooth, (more on this later,) is becoming more and more popular, particularly in certain industries – so yet another appliance. To connect sites together,
\nyou needed a router or two based on the importance of that site.<\/p>\n

And if that site had an Internet connection bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games also had a firewall or two for your security gateway needs.<\/p>\n

Added to that mess bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games also often needed a WAN optimization devices to account for the poor application performance of running apps that were primarily designed only to work over a LAN.<\/p>\n

Because of the associated risk and complexity of security technology, plus the required expertise to run it, bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games businesses generally kept Internet connections to a minimum, usually a single site.<\/p>\n

This meant that all bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games traffic had to be pumped across the WAN to all other sites and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Each of the technologies in these devices evolved over time, which meant that bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games would most likely have multiple vendors, each with their different management interfaces.<\/p>\n

A bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games administrator had to log into each device, and often, one simple change would have a cascading effect and require changes to all devices.<\/p>\n

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Caption: New Cisco Meraki router<\/p><\/div>\n

Most of these technologies are pretty mature today, and finally almost all these features are available in a single appliance, managed via a single interface.<\/p>\n

This is game-changing and greatly simplifies new site deployments and site moves, not to mention much simpler ongoing management of sites and the whole bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games.<\/p>\n

Now mid-sized business, with the availability of high speed, low cost, business-grade Internet services, can have cheap fast Internet links to any site where bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications and the Internet services are used, along with sophisticated security and exceptional performance.<\/p>\n

Wireless technology is becoming increasingly useful in certain industries. (This is a subject worthy of discussion in its own right.)<\/p>\n

One example is retail, where knowing the exact number and location of shoppers, plus the time they spend in each area, can be correlated to purchases made – providing valuable data in understanding merchandising and buying patterns.<\/p>\n

Wireless is coming into the frame, in the context of big data, and needs to be factored into any thinking about bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games design today<\/p>\n

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We are also seeing growing demand for Wireless in distribution, warehousing, and health & aged care – other industries where knowing the exact location of key items, equipment, or people is important.<\/p>\n

How Application Acceleration Has Evolved to Deliver Great Performance Over the bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games.<\/h3>\n
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Caption: Application acceleration for bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, the growth in bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications, which by definition are delivered over the Internet, has shifted the application acceleration companies to focus their development on improving application performance across the Internet.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very happy to say this is now a reality. This technology burrows through the cloud between user and bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games provider, and strips out unnecessary traffic, to significantly improve performance.<\/p>\n

We have had application acceleration across WANs for some years now, delivering as much as 20x performance improvement. This is particularly important for sites in remote parts of Australia, as is typically the case in the mining industry.<\/p>\n

To guarantee the bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games providers performance, each site only deploys an application accelerator device that talks to a remote device located near the bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games provider in the cloud.<\/p>\n

One appliance near each site will greatly improve bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games performance across all your bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications.<\/p>\n

Whilst many techniques can be effective at achieving great bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games application performance. For the purposes of this discussion, I would recommend that there are three key steps required:<\/p>\n

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  1. Deploy local bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games services at all sites,<\/li>\n
  2. Deploy SD-WAN Firewall appliances at all sites for your bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games gateway and the secured branch to branch connectivity,<\/li>\n
  3. Deploy bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games application acceleration devices at key sites across your WAN with greater than 8-10 users who are consuming bet365 Casino Live Dealer Games applications.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Conclusions.<\/h2>\n

    To pull it all together:<\/p>\n