SD-WAN FEATURED ARTICLE

VeloCloud Talks SD-WAN Benefits at Industry Event

May 06, 2016

By Casey Houser, Contributing Writer

An influential company in the business of creating cloud-based software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) was recently selected to feature in a prominent industry event.

A number of figures from VeloCloud were selected to talk about the real-world experience of dealing with SD-WAN at this year’s Interop (News - Alert) conference that took place in Las Vegas. First, on May 4th, Steve Woo, the vice president of products at VeloCloud, joined Sanjay Srinivasan, the chief technology architect at Vonage (News - Alert), to present their “Real World SD-WAN Deployments and Benefits” talk to event participants. The following day, on May 5th, Michael Wood, the vice president of marketing at VeloCloud, presented his own talk, “SD-WAN: Why Architecture Matters.”




The three business heads preceded VeloCloud’s reputation as a top company in this field. It received a Unified Communications Product of the Year Award from TMC (News - Alert) this year for its ability to support the growth of clients’ applications and for its network agility. TMC referenced that honor in a recent podcast with Wood and noted the market prediction that the SD-WAN is expected to grow to $6 billion in global revenue by 2020.

Although the TMC report noted that figures such as the $6 billion could be taken with a grain of salt, it nevertheless underscores the momentum currently taking place in alternative networking. Companies look for ways to connect their employees and office to one another in a secure manner. With nearly all of the information technology field moving to the cloud, it makes sense that secure wide area networks available as a service could perform well.

Wood brings more than 20 years of experience to the rest of the team at VeloCloud. Woo compliments those years with his own time spent as an executive and high-level employee of companies such as Cisco (News - Alert) and SynOptics Communications, where he helped retrieve $1.7 billion in revenue with his product line. They now lead a group of people that could be responsible for changing the face of networking as we know it. In addition, Srinivasan’s decades of experience in voice-over-IP, software architecture, and product marketing make him more than qualified to speak about the real-world applications of business networks.

VeloCloud and Vonage have worked tightly together in past projects such as the Vonage SmartWAN that runs atop VeloCloud services. Together, they are able to provide business customers with efficient and secure voice, video, and data transfer that can work between multiple client sites and many employees.




Edited by Maurice Nagle

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