2019 Next-Gen SD-WAN Report

After deploying tens of thousands of sites with SD-WAN technology we've learned a lot across the ecosystem. AT&T's Chief Product Officer, Roman Pacewicz, discusses what we've learned and the new value of SD-WAN from the perspective of AT&T's business customers.

SD-WAN is fundamental for Zero Trust Networking. When you can virtualize functions and implement policy in coordination to SD-WAN you have the ability to better protect the enterprise. Shawn Hakl, Senior VP of Business Products at Verizon, talks about why Verizon's customers are embracing SD-WAN technology.

SD-WAN and 5G are colliding. As an industry, how do we direct these two storms in the right way? Jeremy Wubs, Senior VP of Products and Marketing at Bell, discusses how we combine 5G with what SD-WAN has to offer.

Enterprises are quickly adopting SD-WAN technology which has been a significant source of growth for Colt. Mirko Voltolini, Global Head of Network on Demand at Colt, discusses why enterprises are adopting this technology as well as Colt's services.

As enterprises become dependent on the use of SD-WAN for business-critical infrastructure, they need to ensure that SD-WAN devices don’t end up becoming a single point of failure. Opengear CEO, Gary Marks, discusses how a reliable, cost-effective out-of-band solution can provide additional assurance and recovery options for SD-WANs.

Two key observations about the rapidly evolving SD-WAN market from Kishore Seshadri, VP/GM, SD-WAN, Aruba. First, centralize where you can, distribute where you must. Second, look to SD-WAN for interconnecting hub sites.

Nuage Networks saw a lot of traction for SD-WAN in 2019 with their engagement with service providers in all three tiers across the globe. Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage Networks, shares three predictions for SD-WAN and what we can expect to see in 2020.

In enterprises today, too many tasks are manual, but as the network evolves from site-to-site to a user-to-app model this will change, says Kelly Ahuja, CEO of Versa Networks. A key to this is network telemetry from wherever the user is located. This data will open new possibilities for (1) security/compliance and (2) automation/programmability.

Dan Pitt, Senior VP, MEF, discusses how SD-WAN enables access to cloud services, whether on-premises, in a colo, or on a public cloud. Communications service providers have an opportunity here while cloud operators figure out how much connectivity services they should provide.

Testing and service assurance is going to play a major role in enabling the adoption of the industry's first SD-WAN standard, specifically in terms of functionality, performance, and security. Marc Cohn, Director of Technology Strategy and Virtualization at Spirent and Co-Chair of MEF Certification Committee, discusses why SD-WAN testing is more extensive than traditional infrastructure testing.

Matt Carter, CEO of Aryaka, provides details into what their CIO customers are saying about digital transformation, security, application performance, managed service components, and the quality of experience. He describes the importance of how all these components fit together to create a consistent global experience.

What's next in SD-WAN? Meraki's smart camera technology provides a single management solution that is scalable across millions of devices, across hundreds-of-millions of clients, using SD-WAN to tie them together. Jeevan Patil, Head of Product Marekting at Cisco Meraki, talks about Meraki's smart camera technology focused on customer outcomes from security to applications to analytics.