In this whitepaper you will learn some of the key industry trends that are making the task of managing and securing branch office networks increasingly more difficult.

Another goal is to discuss how, similar to the situation in the WAN, the optimum way to drastically reduce the operational burden associated with the branch office is to adopt solutions that take a software-centric approach to providing all of the branch office networking functionality. This new class of solution is referred to as a Software Defined Branch Office (SD-Branch Office).