As the globe enters its second year beholden to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing emphasis on the adoption and optimisation of new technology. This is driven by the general acceptance of the “new normal”, central to which is the need to provide organisations and their employees with the ability to safely and securely connect to business applications from any location.
 
For example, an idea finally acquiring its place in the sun is the pandemic-inspired “work-cation” a trip where you travel to a new destination and work from there while taking advantage of a change of scenery without taking a leave of absence from “the office”.
 
In the corporate networking space, we can therefore envisage a steady growth in the application of new technologies as organisations move to underpin the “work from anywhere” digital business transformation with cloud-based, software-defined secure access solutions.
 
And, as organisations move ever-rapidly to convert their conventional network edge infrastructures, a significant increase in the application of technologies such as software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is to be anticipated.

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