While there are many forms of connectivity available to consumers and businesses, the internet has become ubiquitous—essentially a utility that’s vital for daily life. For enterprises, the public internet can become the predominant corporate WAN backbone, gradually replacing and augmenting private MPLS networks. The growth of cloud and SaaS applications over the past decade accelerated this shift to internet-based networks as many enterprise software systems migrated to as-a-service offerings. Because of how available and cost-effective the internet is for enterprise connectivity, organizations make a lot of assumptions about its reliability and performance. Often, they assume it’s reliable and performant enough…

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