MPLS may have been the WAN workhorse for larger enterprises for the past, but it’s unlikely to be the future in the age of the cloud.
Having application performance problems over your Internet VPN connections to your manufacturing locations or partners based in China? Outsourcing locations based in India? Sales offices in South Africa? Are you thinking that MPLS might be the only answer to your WAN troubles? It’s probably not.
Congestion-based packet loss and increased latency are the biggest killers of application performance on any WAN. MPLS can be great for addressing those kinds of problems within a continent. International MPLS connectivity, however, despite the sky-high costs, often does not.
Learn more about how a multi-segment architecture for WAN Optimization is your best answer for long distance global connectivity here.