AFRICA – Vodacom Business Africa has announced plans to launch its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solution to clients in all 47 operating countries across its African footprint after a successful trial in South Africa.
SD-WAN is emerging as the go-to solution in business, delivering unmatched performance and cost benefits, including increased agility and quality of service, better reliability and security.
SD-WAN boosts efficiency by managing bandwidth availability and usage, traffic routing, and prioritisation of business-critical protocols.
When working with business-critical systems and automated processes, this prioritisation is vital, as a connectivity lapse could cause production delays and revenue loss.
“By launching this offering into Africa, we’re eliminating connectivity barriers that growing businesses are contending with,” said Wale Odeyemi, executive head of strategic marketing for Vodacom Business Africa.
“These include increasing cybersecurity threats, escalating data demands and costs, as well as slow or unresponsive digital applications that stall productivity.”
Odeyemi added that Vodacom Business Africa offers an end-to-end SD-WAN solution, meaning that they provide both the physical network underlay and the digital overlay so that their clients won’t have to approach various providers to set up the kind of network you need.
Companies can link to multiple providers and let their software decide which is the fastest, most efficient link to perform specific tasks.
“When choosing our solution, you don’t have to completely replace an existing network, either” he added.
“You can simply strengthen what you already have. As an overlay technology, our SD-WAN can run on top of existing carrier-grade multiprotocol label switching connections (MPLS) and across hybrid WANs. Plus, it’s scalable and configurable to meet each business’s needs and pace of growth.”
The Vodacom Business Africa SD-WAN is fully managed by a team of technology experts, streamlines networks across multiple locations locally and internationally, which is crucial for organisations managing multiple data centres and critical branch operations across private and public cloud environments.
As a result, clients get enhanced application performance and improved network visibility, and are equipped with a single-pane view of all data usage across multiple assets, whether in remote factories or branch office locations.
“This central management is another major drawcard, as it enables the deployment of new branch or data-centre provisions without the costly expert labour traditionally involved with network upgrades,” Odeyemi said.
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