Traditional Wide Area Networks (WANs) are struggling to keep up with new technology disrupters. The transition of businesses to digital has been accelerated tenfold in a bid to mobilise their workforce to ensure business continuity moving forward. Amid the reality of a global pandemic came the need for significant futureproofing and the conversion of `traditional’ ways of connecting with all stakeholders to suit new ways or more effective engagement.

Software-defined WAN is the future of networking and increasingly, enterprises are showing an interest in the technology. To meet this demand, Vodacom Business has continued to scale up its SD-WAN provisioning, with the number of sites contracted increasing from 438 in April 2020 to 1 749 in January this year.