No matter where an organization is on its digital transformation journey, its technology leaders are assessing SD‑WAN (software-defined wide-area networks). Whether already part of the strategy, or still under consideration, SD‑WAN has emerged as the predominant technology to access the multicloud environment.
By abstracting the service layer from infrastructure, SD‑WAN offers enterprises a more efficient and cost-effective way to manage networks. Over the past decade, increasing numbers of organizations recognized how SD‑WAN enables MPLS bandwidths with less expensive Internet connectivity. SD‑WAN’s policy-based forwarding, application awareness and centralized management have made it the on-ramp of choice to the cloud for many enterprises.