Vodacom Business Africa said it has successfully deployed its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service to several businesses in South Africa, meaning the company is currently providing the service to customers in 47 countries in Africa.

According to telecompaper website on October 5, Vodacom Business Africa said it has successfully deployed its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service to several companies in South Africa, meaning the company is currently providing the service to customers in 47 countries in Africa. According to Vodacom, SD-WAN is becoming the preferred solution in the enterprise, providing better performance and cost-effectiveness, including increased flexibility and service quality, better reliability and security.

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SD-WAN improves efficiency by managing bandwidth availability and utilization, traffic routing and priority of business key protocols. These services ensure high-quality connections to all sites, even in hard-to-reach locations or rural areas. Vodacom claims that their services are designed to simplify the structure of users’ on-premises and international networks, which is critical to managing multiple data centers in private and public cloud environments. The company says customers can get enhanced application performance and improved network visibility.

(Compiled by: Shi Tianyang)