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description: Consider constructing a wide area network (WAN) using software-defined Azure Virtual WAN networking services.
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Contoso, Ltd. is a growing financial services company in London with major offices located throughout the world. Contoso is evaluating the adoption of a global transit network architecture. This network would be used to connect their growing number of distributed offices. It would also address the work-from-home initiatives and control their cloud-centric modern, global enterprise IT footprint.
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