The Customer Journey to SD-WAN: Is It Right for Your Network?

Functional, Technical, and Economic Considerations

Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) can offer a number of advantages over traditional networking techniques for enterprises moving to virtualized IT environments. This paper reviews the main architectural options open to enterprises considering the adoption of SD-WAN, and their technical, functional, and economic attributes, to help networking teams to decide if SD-WAN is the right choice for them.