After a successful trial in South Africa, Vodacom Business Africa has announced intentions to roll out its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solution to clients in all 47 operating nations throughout its African footprint.
With its unrivaled performance and cost advantages, higher agility and quality of service, improved reliability, and increased security, SD-WAN is quickly becoming the preferred corporate option.
By controlling bandwidth availability and utilisation, traffic routing, and the prioritisation of business-critical protocols, SD-WAN improves efficiency.
This prioritisation is essential when working with business-critical systems and automated processes because a connectivity issue could result in production delays and lost revenue.
“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 noted that Vodacom Business Africa provides an end-to-end SD-WAN solution, which means they supply both the physical network underlay and the digital overlay so that their clients won’t need to contact numerous providers to build up the type of network you require.
Businesses can connect to many providers and let their software choose which one is the quickest and most effective for completing particular activities.
“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 completely managed by a group of technology experts, streamlines networks across numerous locations locally and internationally, and is essential for businesses managing multiple data centers and crucial branch operations across private and public cloud environments.
Clients benefit from increased network visibility, improved application performance, and a single-pane view of all data usage across various assets, whether in faraway 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.