The enterprise network is the central business nervous system, connecting employees, systems and customers across distance and device to ensure seamless service delivery and productivity. It’s the core of communication and collaboration, especially now in the wake of the events of the past two years and evolving within new workplace dynamics and demands. It has to be always on, always connected and always capable – agile and scalable enough to allow for the organisation to fully realise the potential of digital, the value of cloud, and innovate right up to the edge of technology.

Organisations need enterprise networks that are capable of meeting the demands of hybrid working and advanced technologies. These networks have to be ready for the next normal. Yes, everybody hates that term, but it’s a fact. Normal 2022 is not normal 2019, and it won’t be normal 2023. As McKinsey’s 2021 article on operational resilience, ‘The whole-company fitness challenge’, points out, organisations have to optimise their networks with strategic technologies so that they can bypass or minimise the traditional issues of high costs, underused systems, and limited performance.