SD-WAN is one of the hottest technologies in the networking space. Being “hot”, though, doesn't mean that SD-WAN has a solid business case to support it. How can IT executives justify the investment in this technology? In short, SD-WAN promises to have a positive business impact in the following areas:

● Improve network capacity, availability, and agility to maximize end user productivity

● Optimize...

The tissue industry has Kleenex, and the bandage industry has Band-Aid. For the networking industry, SD-WAN has become the generic term for every new WAN development, be it Internet-based backbones or cloud-WAN integrations. SD-WAN is invariably “good” and “new,” but what exactly does it mean? Here are seven colloquial definitions:

1.Internet Backbone

This is the original SD-WAN. Businesses equip locations with one or more...