Today’s business environment is more dynamic and challenging than ever. New players, with new and innovative solutions, are challenging the status quo and long-term market leaders. For business verticals like healthcare, finance, education, and transportation, disruption is the new reality.
Thriving in a scenario where Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotic process automation, and business analytics are the new normal requires a more pragmatic approach when defining the network infrastructure that will support digital transformation.
Cloud and multi-cloud computing are the new go-to technologies, providing the flexibility needed to meet storage and dynamic compute requirements. However, traditional IP VPN technology can’t do the same for the connectivity.
Traditional IP VPN and new SD-WAN implementations are designed to support business environments—where customer network characteristics typically remain unchanged for long periods of time. These scenarios are rapidly disappearing, and the only way service providers can efficiently and competitively support their customers’ ecosystems and unique digital transformation journeys is with a business services portfolio that can adapt to new application requirements. Let our Adaptive IP™ approach lead the way.
IP VPNs will continue to be a critical network connectivity technology as they evolve from a traditional rigid, hardware-centric approach to a software-centric one. As SD-WAN becomes more prevalent at the network edge combined with additional security apps, it will provide essential secure IP capabilities to:
Better support and secure new and emerging applications
Offer cloud-like and multi-cloud-like scale
Facilitate business transformations through intelligent automation
Ciena’s Adaptive IP is a unique approach that combines our market-leading routing and switching products with machine learning analytics and intelligent automation software. With Adaptive IP, service providers can cost-efficiently support existing, new, and emerging business opportunities while offering the scalability and flexibility customers require to support their digital transformations.
