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Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst | theCUBE Research

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Conversation with Muninder Sambi

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Muninder Singh Sambi, VP/GM, Networking & Security | Google

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Manisha Gupta, Group Product Leader | Google Cloud

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Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst | theCUBE Research

Connect Your Global Enterprise With Cloud WAN: A Network Built for the AI Era, Asia-Pacific
May 2, 2025 | 5:00 AM - 5:40 AM UTC

Get the inside track on how Google is reshaping enterprise connectivity at the “Connect Your Global Enterprise With Cloud WAN” event. TheCUBE delivers exclusive interviews and real-time analysis from networking experts, infrastructure engineers and industry leaders as they explore the future of modern WANs. Discover what's powering Google Search, YouTube and Google Cloud behind the scenes — and what it means for business. Explore advancements in global network architecture, enterprise connectivity, cloud partnerships and next-gen infrastructure strategy.

Bob Laliberte
Principal Analyst theCUBE Research
Muninder Singh Sambi
VP/GM, Networking & Security Google
Peter Blum
Group Product Leader Google Cloud
Manisha Gupta
Group Product Leader Google Cloud
Get the inside track on how Google is reshaping enterprise connectivity at the “Connect Your Global Enterprise With Cloud WAN” event. TheCUBE delivers exclusive interviews and real-time analysis from networking experts, infrastructure engineers and industry leaders as they explore the future of modern WANs.

Discover what's powering Google Search, YouTube and Google Cloud behind the scenes — and what it means for business. Explore advancements in global network architecture, enterprise connectivity, cloud partnerships and next-gen infrastructure stra... Read more
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Bob Laliberte

>> Hello and welcome to our webinar, Connect Your Global Enterprise with Cloud WAN, a Network Built for the AI Era. I'm your host, Bob Laliberte, principal analyst for theCUBE Research, and we're coming to you from our Palo Alto Studios. We've got a great event lined up for you today so you can learn about Google's Cloud WAN service. You may recall that Google recently announced Cloud WAN at Google Next 2025. It's a fully managed enterprise-grade backbone network service designed to meet the demands of modern distributed organizations. Now, this is the same planet-scale network environment that powers Gmail, YouTube and Search, and is now available to enterprise customers. It delivers performance, security and reliability at scale with a 99.99% SLA. This new network service will also simplify network management by replacing legacy WAN architectures and multi-vendor stacks with a unified cloud-native solution. Given its scale, performance and flexible pricing, organizations can leverage it for data center interconnects, multi-cloud networks, and campus and branch connectivity. So let's go over what we have in store for you today. First up, we're going to hear from Nestle about their transition to using Cloud WAN and the results it has achieved using it so far. Next, really special conversation with Muninder Singh Sambi, VP and general manager cloud networking of Google, so that we can discuss this new offering. Then we're going to hear from Citadel Securities about their implementation of Cloud WAN. Following that, Manisha Gupta, group product manager, and Peter Blum, group product manager, both of Google, will provide an overview of Cloud WAN. And then, I'll wrap things up with my analysis of the offering and how I believe it can help your organization. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so let's get started hearing from Nestle.

>> The Nestle Group is the world's largest food and beverage company. It was founded more than 150 years ago, and it's headquartered in the Swiss town of Vevey. Nestle is present in more than 180 countries, has more than 400 factories and 275,000 employees, all committed to Nestle's purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Nestle offers a wide portfolio of products and services for people and their pets. It has more than 2,000 brands, ranging from global icons, like Maggi, Milo, Purina, Nescafe, or Nespresso, to local favorites. Nestle is undergoing a significant digital transformation journey in many business areas. Think about the role and impulse that a revamped digital commerce and modernized digital manufacturing and the introduction of AI could play in operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. In IT platform, particularly in networking, this translates into our ability to be adaptive and deliver increased performances, while maintaining resilience and cost-effectiveness at its best. Nestle wants an agile operational model that allows to inject competitive and innovative options available in the market. The network must evolve into a flexible, resilient, SD-WAN-enabled concept that bridge the gap between edge and cloud, and allow for a seamless end-to-end orchestration of all connectivity services. Over the last four years, Nestle has completed a network transformation process to move brand site from a legacy global WAN solution to an environment leveraging hybrid WAN services, utilizing MPLS and internet as underlay, as well as SD-WAN as overlay. This includes ensuring all internet traffic goes through inspection gateways. This model, while allowing end-to-end traffic control, does not allow us to scale as we would like, and we are always looking to enhance cost efficiency and performances. Thanks to Google Cloud WAN architecture, we can host Cisco SD-WAN headend in Google Cloud, while Google backbone is used as an underlay, providing high-speed connectivity between Cisco SD-WAN headends across continents, branch sites connect to SD-WAN headend via internet, leveraging Google Cloud premium peering providers. Nestle will retain end-to-end visibility and control over the architecture, with the ability to monitor network traffic and performance across the entire network infrastructure, from the source to the destination. The new architecture will allow for the complete replacement of MPLS with direct internet access, while maintaining the same level of resilience and reliability and with improved performances, last-mile provisioning lead time and cost efficiency. Additionally, the new architecture will provide an option to easily consume SSE-based services hosted in Google Cloud and delivered by Nestle's technical partners. First of all, better application performance for all branch sites. Nowadays, bridging the gap between edge and cloud is paramount to support the enablement of AI, GenAI and IoT use cases. Looking at size transitions so far to Google Cloud WAN, we have measured performance improvement up to 40%. In addition, we expect cost efficiencies by fully replacing MPLS with internet. Finally, we can deliver high resilience and flexibility to seamlessly scale up bandwidth and spin off any cloud services at any geography. This is truly what we were looking for.
Bob Laliberte

>> Today, I'm joined by Muninder Singh Sambi, vice president and general manager of cloud networking of Google, and today we're going to discuss Google's new planet-scale network service, which is now available to all organizations, and how it can help improve performance, reduce costs and simplify operational efficiencies. Welcome, Muninder.

>> Thank you, Bob. Thank you for having me here on the show.
Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah, absolutely, it's great to have you here. I wanted to get started with the questions, now, Google built a really impressive network to support its own services, like Gmail, Search, et cetera, all those great services that you have. I wonder if you can give us a sense of how large that is. You guys operate globally, but talk to us a little bit about the details of the network itself.

>> Happy to do, Bob. You can think of our network as planet-scale, that we've been innovating for almost 25-plus years. Now, if you look back in history, we started off with the internet era, where it was all about search and our ability to bring that network at a global-scale to enable search. Then came in streaming era, with the YouTube acquisition and YouTube being on the same network infrastructure, expanding, building up the POPs so that we could provide the best content delivery closest to the user. And then, obviously, cloud was big, so being able to take that network and offering it to our cloud customers to consume was what we believe is the third era. We are at a very exciting point now, which we like to define as the fourth era, which is about AI, as we all know how AI is going to fundamentally transform everything that we do. When we talk to our customers and they think about AI and GenAI applications, they're thinking about four things. They're thinking about an AI strategy, they're thinking about a data management strategy, they're thinking about a cloud strategy, and they're also thinking about a network and network security strategy. Networking is fundamental to almost anything that a customer needs to do from a workload perspective, from a cloud and AI. Now, in this fourth era, what we have done, we've made a lot of investments over the years, where we have roughly about two million-plus miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables that are Google-owned and they span across the entire globe, operating and connecting almost 200-plus countries and territories.
Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah. You're a very large network service provider unto yourself and delivering services for yourself, so I've always been impressed with the network and I've covered it previously. I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit, you alluded to a little bit about the AI era, but why open it up to all the enterprises now?

>> Yes, absolutely. So we were on this journey, as you have done in the past, like Cross-Cloud Network, very, very important for our customers, especially in the multi-cloud world. We started with how do we optimize and offer this network to be able to seamless connect workloads. How can workloads better their on-prem or in any other cloud connect to Google managed services or third-party managed services inside Google? And we operated and extended that Cross-Cloud Network with distributed applications. And then, we also extended our Cross-Cloud Network to offer a global front-end with any user that is connecting to an internet-facing application, whether the back-end is in GCP, it's in any of the other cloud providers, or even on-prem, we can provide best-in-class application delivery, security, with no compromise of where the back-end is. Now, in this particular announcement that we did, we are now extending this Cross-Cloud Network infrastructure that we have to the enterprise. And what I mean by the enterprise is employees like you and myself in our own organization should be able to now connect to cloud and SaaS applications using Google Cloud infrastructure, what we like to call as Cloud WAN. And that's where a lot of our customers who are now thinking of evolving or becoming cloud-native, AI-native enterprises, they've started to think about how do I connect my branches in a very simple, easy, have consistent security for all my users and employees as they connect to cloud and SaaS applications, and we believe this was the right time for us to extend our Cross-Cloud Network infrastructure into a Cloud WAN offering for the enterprises to consume.
Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah, it certainly makes a lot of sense to do it now. Organizations are really struggling with a lot of the data that's being moved, the traffic that's being moved, and across globally anyways, organizations are struggling to do that in an operationally efficient way, because the network keeps growing and scaling, getting more complex, but the amount of staff dedicated to managing it stays the same or gets smaller, so there's certainly a strong need to have a different way to connect your global network. I'm wondering if you could touch upon some of the strategic benefits you see for these multinational corporations and maybe where you see their interest. What are the top use cases as well that they're being drawn to when you're talking to them about Cloud WAN?

>> Bob, we see two big use cases. The first one being high-performance connectivity, and the second one being migrating or connecting branch and campus networks. Let me talk about the first use case. As you know, we had Cloud Interconnect that allowed customers to connect data centers into Google Cloud. Then we got to know, hey, there's going to be a multi-cloud world, so we introduced Cross-Cloud Interconnect. But customers were still investing in physical infrastructure and buying various links to connect their data centers. Some customers call it data center interconnect. We wanted to provide a converged infrastructure so that we can have a common infrastructure that customers can use, whether they're connecting their data center into Google Cloud or connecting cloud A to cloud to Google, but also extended to connect their physical infrastructure with data center interconnect, and with that, we announced Cross-Site Interconnect. It's a fully managed L2 infrastructure with protected capacity that provides a circuit and we take care of the reliability needs. It's available in almost 70-plus locations globally, it offers roughly about 50% lower TCO. And then, we obviously have Citadel as one of our customers who are actually connecting their data centers not only to Google Cloud for AI infra, especially when they're doing AI inferencing and training, but they also want to be able to use their data center interconnectivity using Cross-Site Interconnect and use it for data movement between these locations. The second use case is about migrating and connecting branches and campus networks into Google Cloud. And for that, we evolved our premium tier network offering, where we now provide lower latency, almost improving application experience by about 40%. It's a fully reliable backbone, 99.99%. It also offers 40% lower TCO for our customers. We have Nestle as a very strong co-development partner, in addition to many other customers, and Nestle has quoted that for any downtime of 10 minutes, it cost the company roughly about 2.5 million. So employee productivity, reliability, is super, super important as part of having a global WAN infrastructure.
Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah. That's certainly impressive and I agree with you 100%, we've been tracking this through our research and showing the rise of not just using multi-clouds, but using multiple different public clouds in earnest. And we're definitely seeing we're there, I often refer to it as a distributed cloud environment, because it takes in both of your use cases, it's not just about the clouds and data centers, but it's also about those remote locations and how you connect those to the application. So it's great to hear that you took a really thoughtful approach to rolling this out and having it being able to connect to not only data center to data center and colos, but to all the different multiple clouds, and then also all the edge and branch locations as well to ensure that... You said performance, I'll translate that into much better customer experience, employee experience for those people using those applications, and obviously for the operations team, being able to simplify that through having a single vendor to work with instead of trying cobble together multiple different vendors, especially when you go global and you've got all those different regions. And I think that's an important point to make sure is made during this conversation, this isn't, quote, unquote, a "new" service, you're not ironing out any of the kinks or the processes. Your teams have been running this network for years, if not more than a decade.

>> More than a decade.
Bob Laliberte

>> Right. And so, you've got your processes down, you've got all the procedures down, you know how to handle those, again, and that's what you're basically relieving the on-premises network teams from having to deal with any of those issues, from troubleshooting and so forth. So really positive approach. So you had mentioned security a couple of times, so I wanted to bring that up. I know Cloud WAN has integrated into a number of third-party SD-WAN, SSE in general, SASE vendors if you will, as part of the ecosystem. How is that helping, how is that impacting organizations that are looking to adopt Cloud WAN and maybe already have existing tools or are looking to switch to something different? I was wondering if you could comment on that.

>> Yes. One of the big tenets of our Cross-Cloud Network is about an open ecosystem, and especially for this particular use case around Cloud WAN, having an open ecosystem that is fully and tightly integrated, hosted in Google Cloud, is a very important strategic pillar. And one of the things that we had to do is tightly integrate the ISV ecosystem partners that we have. So we have almost every SD-WAN provider, you can have the SD-WAN headend, and we introduce something called the Network Connectivity Center gateway, NCC gateway, that tightly integrates the SD-WAN headend with their choice of a SASE provider, could be Prisma Access from Palo Alto Networks and the likes of others, could be Broadcom with the Symantec, and we're also extending that to other SASE providers. With that fully integrated approach, what customers get is a fully managed secure infrastructure for all type of users and all type of employees, whether the user and employee is connecting from a coffee shop, an airport, whether they're connecting from a branch, whether they're connecting from a campus, they now are able to integrate and land on a common security infrastructure, which you can have consistent policies. Many of our customers also came back and told us about branch consolidation or simplifying what the branch looks like. So we've extended beyond the SASE, SD-WAN and security providers. We also worked with some of the newer use cases, for example, Infoblox, to offer universal DDI. DDI stands for DHCP, DNS, IPAM services, at a global-scale. We are also extending that for wireless LAN infrastructure services, working very closely with a very modern stack coming from Juniper and Mist, where physical infrastructure, you need the access points, you need the switches, but everything beyond that, whether it's wireless LAN controllers, it is network and mission control capabilities, or even location services and AIOps.
Bob Laliberte

>> Got it, excellent. Sounds like you've thought it really through in all aspects of the network connectivity spaces. This has been great, super insightful. Thank you so much for joining me today.

>> Thank you, Bob.
Bob Laliberte

>> And next up, let's hear from Citadel Securities.

>> Hi, my name is Chris Dee, and I'm the head of cloud platform engineering at Citadel Securities. As a leading global market maker, Citadel Securities provides liquidity to ensure investors can efficiently trade what they want and when they want. To do this, we must be able to provide accurate prices for thousands of securities at all times. We host the research and data infrastructure to accomplish this across a hybrid of our own data centers and cloud providers. Google Cloud has increasingly become a key vendor in this hybrid environment. The hybrid capabilities of Google's network, from Cross-Cloud Network solutions to interconnected routing options, have provided us with the scale and stability required for our large-scale research platform and our other high-performance applications. Having a performant, reliable, hybrid WAN to move large amounts of data globally between cloud providers and data centers is critical as we continue to scale and adapt to new technologies. We look forward to leveraging Google's same hybrid networking technology with Cloud WAN to address our high-performance cross-site connectivity needs with Cross-Site Interconnect. We've seen impressive stability so far on long-haul intercontinental connections, and continue to work with Google to expand the use of Cloud WAN and Cross-Site Interconnect to connect our global infrastructure.
Bob Laliberte

>> Well, that was just another great example of how organizations are able to leverage Cloud WAN. And next up, we've got Manisha and Peter to do an overview of Cloud WAN.
Peter Blum

>> My name is Peter, and I'm a product manager in the Google Cloud Networking team. I'm joined today by my colleague, Manisha.
Bob Laliberte

>> Thanks, Peter. Hi everyone. I'm Manisha Gupta, product manager with Google Cloud Networking team as well, driving the Cloud WAN solution. And we are both very excited to take you through an overview of Google's Cloud WAN. Peter, do you want to start us off?
Peter Blum

>> Yeah, sure thing. So let's start with talking about our Cross-Cloud Network. We introduced our cross-cloud networking solutions a few years ago, and we've seen tremendous growth since then. We've seen the most rapid adoption by our largest customers, including now over 50% of the Fortune 500. And to give you a sense of the scale, the Cross-Cloud Network is handling over 23 exabytes of data a month, which is a massive amount of data. We continue to see customers looking to our solutions to help them build, deliver and connect applications across clouds, data centers, colo and SaaS, to customers, partners and employees across the globe. We started Cross-Cloud Network with two use cases, the first helping customers connect and protect distributed applications across clouds and on-prem, and then the second helping them deliver, scale and protect internet-facing applications with the global front-end. Now, with Cloud WAN, when we have our third use case, focused on allowing enterprises to connect their employees to public and private applications globally, leveraging our massive Google planet-scale network. We developed Cloud WAN as a response to conversations we were having with our customers. We saw this continued trend of global enterprises building and managing multiple bespoke WAN networks. For example, they were using MPLS for connecting offices to data centers and then colo facilities, then using SD-WAN to connect branch offices to each other over the internet, different solutions for connecting to public cloud providers, and then most recently, the rise of using SSE and SASE to connect employees and offices to public apps and the internet. So they ended up with multiple bespoke networks for different needs, and that's led to increased complexity, increased operational and licensing costs, and then each of these wide area networks has its own security stack, resulting in more overhead, gaps in protection across the different WANs. At the extreme end, we've seen many of our largest customers deploying their own global networks. They set up locations around the world, they buy their own network transit, and then they have to manage stacks of networking equipment to connect their branch and campus offices, data centers and clouds around the globe. So that led us to develop a new solution called Cloud WAN. Cloud WAN is a fully managed global WAN solution that leverages Google's global private network with our partners to enable enterprises to simply and securely connect employees with high performance and reliability to public and private applications across the internet, clouds, colocation and data centers. It lets customers have access to the same global private network we use to deliver our own multi-billion user services, things like YouTube, Search, Maps and Workspace, plus, of course, our own massive cloud. This allows enterprises to consolidate their multiple WAN and MPLS solutions to a single network we manage with last-mile connectivity with our partners. Supporting this, we have integrations with popular secure service edge solutions for best-in-class protection, plus connectivity integrations with SD-WAN and DDI. Manisha is going to talk a lot more about our partners and how that all works in just a few minutes. As part of Cloud WAN, we also have a novel site-to-site interconnect option, which lets customers have an L2 connection across our global network. Cloud WAN makes global simple, fast and flexible. We provide broad global connectivity with up to 40% improved performance than with using the public internet. And by consolidating multiple WAN solutions, customers can reduce their total cost of ownership by up to 40%. Powering Cloud WAN is the Google global network, with over two million miles of fiber, including 33 subsea cables, 202 network edge locations, it's one of the largest global networks in the world, with access in over 200 countries and territories across the planet. Now, I'd like to hand over to Manisha, who's going to take us deeper into the use cases, technology and partners that make up the Cloud WAN solution. Manisha, over to you.

>> Thank you, Peter. Cloud WAN enables two use cases, providing high-performance connectivity and premium tier networking for connecting your branch and campus environments. Large global customers with extensive data center networks need to move large amounts of traffic reliably, and Cloud WAN offers flexible connectivity options for linking geographically dispersed data centers, providing a modern solution to traditional backbones that come with limited capacity, high cost of operations and lower reliability. Our premium tier network serves as a powerful cloud on-ramp, helping to securely connect your branch offices and campuses to public cloud resources, to SaaS applications or to the internet. And we deliver a unified fully managed WAN solution that extends the performance and reliability of our trusted network directly to enterprises. Let's double-click into the two use cases. We have Cloud Interconnect that connects on-prem data centers to cloud regions. Our customers told us that they wanted multi-cloud networking for connecting their applications in other clouds with Google-native services, like BigQuery, Cloud SQL, et cetera, for which we introduced the Cross-Cloud Interconnect. Cross-Cloud Interconnect connects your Google VPC to your VPC in another cloud, and both Cloud Interconnect and Cross-Cloud interconnect are fully managed, SLA-backed services. But you still have a gap, you have to rely on lease line infrastructure from different providers in collocations to connect across your on-prem data centers. We are excited to introduce Cross-Site Interconnect, a cloud-first layer-to-connectivity service that offers 10 and 100-gig protected capacity with predictable pricing. It runs over Google backbone, and it offers you a four-nine SLA with built-in redundancy and parts diversity, and it's fully managed so you don't need any new infrastructure to use it, simplifying your operations and reducing your costs. Let's now talk about the branch and campus connectivity. That's our second use case for Cloud WAN. Cloud WAN extends the performance and reliability of Google backbone to securely connect any branch or any campus to any cloud, SaaS or internet. It uses Network Connectivity Center as a centralized hub that offers you flexible options, like cloud VPN or your preferred SD-WAN provider, for connecting your hybrid locations. And it delivers up to 40% improved application performance compared to any other backbone. And compared to any other bespoke solutions, Cloud WAN also offers you 40% lower TCO. You can significantly drive down your fixed upfront costs by consolidating your career-neutral facility deployments to fewer cloud regions and take advantage of our flexible pricing options, usage-based or fixed pricing. We believe that you, our customers, must have the flexibility to use your preferred connectivity and security vendors, and we make that happen with a tightly integrated partner ecosystem. Our premium tier network gives you unparalleled any-to-any connectivity. You can connect to any of our 42 regions from any of our 202 edge locations, over two million miles of fiber, and your traffic will enter Google Network as close to the user and exit from the closest to the application, giving you that significant improvement in application experience. Let's take it a step further. Today, when you connect your branch to an application, the traffic has to go over multiple hops over the internet, which reduces latency. Premium tier network brings traffic into Google backbone from our closest POP, and it minimizes the number of hops. Google Network is ranked number one amongst all CSPs, with 5,700 BGP peerings, and it provides the most optimal traffic handoff to any other network, and this is how you achieve that latency reduction of up to 40%. Reliability is top of mind for all enterprises, and you get four-nine reliability with Cloud WAN. Our VPP partners provide resilient connectivity to Google, and we have 28 VPP partners and we are rapidly expanding. Partners like Lumen and BT now offer SLA-backed connectivity from last-mile to the cloud. And this entire Cloud WAN infra is SRE-managed, fully automated closed loop to ensure continuous operations, in contrast to traditional NOCs, where you need to rely on multiple tools and manual processes. Many of you have already adopted SD-WAN for your branch and campus connectivity with headends in your collocations or data centers, so how do you integrate with Cloud WAN? You can start with augmenting your existing SD-WAN deployment in Google Cloud. Add an SD-WAN headend in a cloud region as an NCC spoke to natively integrate with our backbone, or you can simply run it as an overlay network. Our broad ecosystem extends to leading SD-WAN vendors, so you can use your preferred provider. And you have the choice of self-managing these overlays or consuming it as a service. We also know that security is top of mind for you, so we have partnered closely with leading security providers to offer their services natively with Cloud WAN so you can achieve a unified security posture for any user to any app. And we are excited to introduce NCC gateway, a new service that stitches your high-bandwidth cloud on-ramp with SASE, our Cloud NG firewall, or your preferred NG firewall services. NCC gateway can be further extended to deliver that high-performance, low-latency off-ramp for your critical private applications. You can further extend the benefits of Cloud WAN to your branch to reduce branch footprint by shifting to a cloud-delivered model for your brand services, DDI, NAC, wireless LAN services, AIOps, et cetera. Leading providers in the industry are taking enterprise through this journey by evolving their offerings from on-prem appliance-based to cloud-delivered SaaS services, and we are partnering with the leading providers to bring those services to you in Google Cloud with Cloud WAN. To summarize, Cloud WAN delivers 40% TCO reduction, 40% improvement in application experience, and it integrates with market-leading ecosystem to deliver you a cloud-native experience for your preferred services. Thank you so much for joining us today to talk about Cloud WAN for connecting your global enterprises.
Bob Laliberte

>> Thanks, Manisha and Peter, that was a great overview of the service. So to bring things to a close, I've been covering Google networking for a number of years, and I've always been impressed with the level of thought and innovation that Google has put into its own network, designed to power all the Google offerings, but also to enable the Google operations teams to manage this planet-scale, high-performance network in a very efficient manner. So it's really exciting for me to see Google open it up for enterprise use and it's well-timed, considering that modern IT and application environments are more distributed and a lot more complex. In fact, 80% of respondents to a survey recently stated that their network environment was more or much more complex. But what was also interesting was that another telling data point was that 93% of these organizations also stated that the network was more important to achieve better business outcomes. So when we drilled down into what was causing all of that complexity, organizations highlighted that the main drivers were around increased traffic, the distributed nature of the network, and all the disparate management tools. So again, those are probably not a surprise to anyone who's watching, you're dealing with that on a daily basis. The increase of traffic is synonymous with those certainties in life, like death and taxes, well, now it's death, taxes and data growth. And that's also compounded by the fact that there's fewer skilled resources to be able to manage that environment. And it was interesting, because I was just talking to a lead network engineer this week, and he was commenting on the same thing, the network continues to grow and scale, but the staff doesn't, so you have to find ways to be more operationally efficient. Organizations also have to deal with the rapid adoption of these generative AI environments and workloads, they begin to spin up in a lot of the private data centers or even in public clouds, and that's another source of data traffic that's really going to impact the network. And so, this is important, but the ability to move that traffic can't come at the expense of existing mission-critical apps. Your network teams need to be able to support both the new generative AI and the existing mission-critical. Because of that, I think Google's offering is really well-timed to help organizations in these highly distributed environments, and especially those with globally distributed environments, including things like multi-cloud and all the remote locations that are being spun up and collecting data as well. The service also addresses one of the biggest points of trying to manage multiple different vendors in different regions, which can often create blind spots and obviously delay problem identification and resolution. So by leveraging the Google Cloud WAN, organizations are able to retain control and visibility, without having that burden of life cycle management activities and troubleshooting. And then, with all its peering partners and over 200 POPs, Google's making it easier to get onto that Google Cloud WAN network faster. And lastly, by integrating with existing SASE ecosystem partners, both SD-WAN and SSE, it allows organizations to continue to use those solutions when they're migrating to Cloud WAN, and with so many POPs, it has the ability to place the network and security tools closer to the users or the applications. Unfortunately, we're out of time, so I would like to thank you for joining us for the Connect Your Global Enterprise with Cloud WAN, a Network Built for the AI Era webinar, and if you'd like to find out more about Google Cloud WAN, please visit the website listed below. This is Bob Laliberte from theCUBE Research, signing off.
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