Enterprises worldwide are undergoing some form of digital transformation or have a digital strategy in place. At the heart of these transformations is an intent to provide consistent and superior real-time customer experience to their end customers, rapidly deliver new services, and significantly reduce the cost of operations. To achieve some of these goals, enterprises are moving to multi-cloud environments; research shows that enterprises now use multiple public cloud platforms alongside their own private clouds.

Multi-cloud environments enable application agility, allowing enterprises to dynamically place the applications and workloads in the most suitable cloud environment, and access public cloud and SaaS-based cloud services to deliver the best application performance, latency, and customer experience at lower cost points. However, to deliver application agility, enterprises must overcome the networking bottlenecks – rigid appliance-based branch networks and static wide-area network (WAN) connections. The focus is on communications service providers (CSPs), which supply wide-ranging managed services to enterprises, including branch networks and WAN services, to deliver agile branch networks and agile WAN. Read this paper to learn more.