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Colt Technology Services has expanded its managed
SD-WAN to 13 countries across Europe. The expansion
will reach even more countries in 2017.
Also known as hybrid WAN, the service allows busi-
ness customers to cope with the network requirements of
the future digital economy by combining dedicated data
connections with low-cost broadband links in their WAN.
“Putting it simply, the customer wants secure, guaran-
teed delivery with quality of service for their data network,”
said Peter Coppens, director of network portfolio at Colt.
“But they don’t want increasing data capacity require-
ments to mean more expensive bandwidth circuits.”
The solution is to use the public Internet for those apps
which are not latency-critical, such as email or web surf-
ing, while reserving your data networks for the mission-
Colt Expands SD-WAN
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