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For retailers, high-speed “always-on” network connectivity is key to the customer experience. Likewise, performance delays and an unreliable network infrastructure can also have significant impact on an organization’s revenue stream. Bottom line, many retailers are looking to address these challenges by deploying a SD-WAN solution, with the parallel goals of preventing network bottlenecks and accelerating application performance. Those were also key drivers of the transition to SD-WAN for a large North American retailer.
This retailer’s technology infrastructure is spread across two data centers and the cloud to support customer demand and the needs of more than 1,000 stores. With such a vast geographic footprint and disparate technologies, this organization struggled to ensure complete visibility and control over the network.