The importance of connectivity in the new digital age

The Internet was conceived as a “best effort” tool for communication. Under stress, there can be severe bottleneck situations – think about streaming of big sporting events or the text traffic on New Year's Eve. And from the security side of things, DDoS attacks and the blackmailing of companies have increased in recent years.

64%

of organizations say latency and performance are either a “significant” or “moderate” technical challenge.

29%

say they need to urgently improve their networks for connecting to the cloud.

_{Source: IDC}

High performance and reliable network connectivity are vital for cloud and digital transformation success.

Enterprises need to get back the control over their data and optimize their connectivity beyond the "public" Internet. This requires a solid cloud and interconnection strategy, secure connections, and keeping the data pathways as short as possible.