The importance of creating synergies between the deliverance of business-critical data over the wide area network to support remote employees is increasingly important to business because more than half of the total workforce works outside the corporate headquarters’ structure. According to Aberdeen’s February 2008 Benchmark report, “The Roadmap to the Next generation Branch Office Networks,” the number of end-user organizations expect the number to increase by 7 percent by the end of 2008.
