Wireless WAN technology is changing the landscape of our industry. Sales of traditional connectivity services like T1s, MPLS, DSL, and even fiber are expensive, hard to manage, slow to deploy, and do not offer the same level of performance and flexibility required by today's enterprise businesses.
Next-generation wireless WAN technology is getting faster, with reduced latency, more affordable connectivity, and solutions that can be deployed in days vs. weeks. This revolution is spurring the launch of new and disruptive technologies like Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and creating new opportunities as companies migrate their applications to the cloud and more machines begin communicating with each other.
As 5G becomes broadly available, it will push the use cases for wireless as primary connectivity even further. According to Gartner, over 20 billion IoT devices will soon be connected, and even more importantly, 60% of distributed enterprises will deploy Software Defined Networking solutions! These and many other data points tell us that 4G LTE and 5G technologies represent the most significant opportunity for growth in the telecom industry and offer VARs, agents, resellers, and system integrators tremendous opportunities to build practices based on these technologies.