February 24, 2017

The 2017 Guide to WAN Architecture and Design - Complete Edition

Jim Metzler, Ashton Metzler & Associates
Distinguished Research Fellow and Co-Founder
Webtorials Analyst Division

The primary goals of the 2017 Guide to WAN Architecture and Design are to make enterprise network organizations aware of the emerging alternatives to the traditional approaches to WAN architecture, management and security and to help them understand the key differences in those alternatives.

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The sections of The Guide are:

Part 1: State of the WAN

This section focuses on providing insight into the current state of the WAN and it contained the results of a survey that was distributed in May of 2016. Throughout The Guide the network professionals who completed the survey will be referred to as The Survey Respondents.

Part 2: WAN Evolution

This section contains the description of a hypothetical company called NeedsToChange and it also contained how each of the sponsors suggested that NeedsToChange should evolve its WAN.

Part 3: Planning for a Successful Transition to a New WAN

This section shares Jim Metzler's research and guidance with a best-practices roadmap for enterprise network organizations to follow for a successful transition to the new WAN.

Executive Summary

This section summarizes what you need to know about the most current statistics, trends and analysis.

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