Think of managing a corporate wide area network as analogous to running a railway network, suggest executives at global internet access and networking provider Brodynt. Railway operators have the ability to manage the scheduling of trains via timetables, can prioritize train movement and paths through signaling systems, and even can dynamically change routes around failures. Yet despite the investment in infrastructure and infrastructure management, there is little visibility into the one thing that ultimately matters to the customer: the experience of their individual journey. “All you can see are the complaints on social media platforms when something on a journey goes wrong,” said Danyyil Peronkov, digital marketing manager at Brodynt. Similarly, Peronkov continues, enterprise network managers have a raft of tools at their disposal to route packets, choose priorities, enforce security, and monitor the infrastructure performance via packet loss, delay, jitter, and other performance variables. But the ultimate purpose is to enable better flows of information between end-users and applications in order to optimize the individual sessions, “which are the IP networking equivalent of individual rail journeys,” he said. For their part, software-defined networking technologies, such as a traditional SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networking) By Martin Vilaboy Networking advancement looks to simplify SDN serving remote workers Meet Session Smart Routing 30 THE CHANNEL MANAGER’S PLAYBOOK
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