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SD-WAN for Food Retail: Connectivity, PCI Compliance & Store Resilience

With food retails facing the task of not only optimising for perishable goods but also tackling the likes of PCI compliance and always-on store experiences, SD-WAN has become an essential network component.

Scoring SASE Vendor Proposals for Retail: Enterprise & Mid-Market Framework

Retail procurement teams evaluating SD-WAN and SASE vendor proposals face a fundamental challenge: inconsistent responses make fair comparison difficult without a standardised framework in place.

Retail RFP Guide: What to Include When Procuring SD-WAN & SASE

Retail SD-WAN and SASE RFPs require sector-specific requirements. Structured procurement processes ensure vendors respond to comparable criteria rather than submitting proposals lead by marketing that obscure capability gaps.

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) in Retail: Rolling Out Hundreds of Stores Without Engineers

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) fundamentally changes traditional deployment models by eliminating the requirement for technical staff at each location. Retailers can ship SD-WAN appliances directly to store managers who have no networking expertise.

Beyond Failover: Why Retailers Need "Active-Active" SD-WAN (Not Just 4G Backup)

When internet connectivity fails at a retail location, the impact can be catastrophic – in stores during peak hours, a five minute outage can result in abandoned trolleys and lost sales.

Retail SD-WAN & PCI DSS: A Technical Guide to Reducing Audit Scope via Segmentation

Traditional flat network architectures leave every device "in scope" for audit, creating compliance headaches and exposing payment data to lateral movement attacks. Find out how SD-WAN fixes that.

SD-WAN RFP Questions: Complete Guide with Copy-Paste Examples

This guide provides an SD-WAN RFP template that you can adapt for your business' needs, alongside a deeper framework based on Netify's own 20 pillar SD-WAN and SASE RFP framework. This template not only helps you ask the right questions but guides you on how to compare vendors.

Who invented SD-WAN?

SD-WAN was not invented by a single individual or company, but the term was first referenced by Gartner in 2014, building on the SDN (Software Defined Networking) concept introduced in 2007. A single individual or company did not invent SD-WAN - the term 'Software Defined Wide Area Network'

Does SD-WAN use MPLS?

SD-WAN can support MPLS but is increasingly preferred with public internet connections, offering better cost and flexibility for modern cloud-based needs. SD-WAN technology can support MPLS as one of several types of connectivity. It is designed to be connectivity agnostic, meaning that service providers can offer support for MPLS, as

How to choose an SD-WAN for Large Enterprises

Choosing the right SD-WAN for large enterprises boosts network performance, scalability, and security while supporting global operations and remote work. For large enterprises, Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions offer a significant improvement to network performance, scalability and security when compared with traditional WAN networks. However, choosing the best