A maturing Internet and the increasing adoption of cloud are changing the face of corporate data management and delivery for good. MPLS networks are still popular today … but, organisations are realising that several other connectivity alternatives may make sense from a cost and efficiency standpoint.

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Are hybrid wide area
networks the nail in
the coffin for MPLS?

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A maturing Internet and the increasing
adoption of cloud are changing the face
of corporate data management and
delivery for good.
MPLS networks are still popular today …
but, organisations are realising that
several other connectivity alternatives
may make sense from a cost and
efficiency standpoint.
Does this spell the
beginning of the end
for MPLS as we know it?

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Is the writing on the wall for MPLS
simply because the economics of it
don’t make sense anymore?
Over ten times more capacity
at a 33% reduction in cost.
Adding up
the numbers

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If an organisation can get better
application performance through a
hybrid WAN strategy, why have an
MPLS network at all?
The trend is clearly toward
a multiconnectivity strategy.
What about
performance?

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Despite the obvious benefits, there are
still factors holding organisations back
from the immediate adoption of a more
cost-effective hybrid WAN strategy:
• extended MPLS contracts with
service providers
• Internet ‘brown-out’ failures
• price pressure
MPLS probably won’t die out
completely, but it will certainly
need to be far more cost-
competitive in order to survive.
Slowing
the process

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Step #1
to taking advantage of the benefits
of a hybrid WAN … understand the
applications you have running over
your network, and what traffic
volumes and patterns they create.
Your network can then be
designed in such a way as to
detect when there’s any form of
performance degradation, and
to optimally reroute the traffic
via another channel.
Knowing what's
on your network

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