Your applications are increasingly demanding high quality bandwidth. Your employees must frequently collaborate with customers and each other across geographic and organizational boundaries, which mandates a network robust enough to support videoconferencing and other online collaboration tools. Mobile employees with many new devices need secure and ubiquitous access to the network. And virtualization technologies and cloud computing strategies are entirely changing the face of enterprise networking. But you can’t just add bandwidth to meet these needs.

Most corporate network infrastructure consists of multiple disparate networks—each one developed to support specific applications for voice, data, and storage. But managing these separate networks is difficult, time-consuming, and costly.