By Sander Almekinders
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 05:30:00
Securely connecting a branch office to a corporate network and keeping it connected is no easy task. Cisco promises to reduce this from months to minutes with Unified Branch (and new Secure Routers). That’s quite a statement. We wanted to hear more about it.
A branch environment is completely different from that of an organization’s head office. Of course, employees want a fast and, above all, reliable Wi-Fi connection there too. The same applies to the internet connection. In addition, employees also see workloads disappearing to other locations. In addition to SaaS and public cloud, they are also moving to the company’s central data center. New AI workloads at the branch, like more automated customer services at retail sites, certainly don’t make the branch environment any easier to manage.
Furthermore, there is often little to no support in branch environments. Finally, in terms of security, these environments deserve the same as the head…
