The Emergence of Cloud WAN Services

The Emergence of Cloud WAN Services

This IDC Market Perspective looks at the emergence of cloud WAN services from the main cloud providers and outlines their impact on telcos and their existing WAN businesses."By enabling organizations to create global WANs connecting users, branches, datacenters, and cloud workloads over cloud providers' private backbones, services such as Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN, AWS Cloud WAN, and Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center represent a new paradigm of networking for enterprises as they move into the cloud, and a potential threat to telcos' existing WAN businesses," said James Eibisch, Research Director, IDC's European Enterprise Communications Services CIS. "At the same time, they also create opportunities for telcos to accelerate their own cloud networking propositions."

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