Exploring SD-WAN for enterprise: A three-part series

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A three-part mini-series exploring SD-WAN technology from an enterprise perspective. We highlight the main networking challenges that SD-WAN is designed to address. We outline existing flavours of SD-WAN available on the market and discuss three possible pathways for SD-WAN evolution.

Description

Exploring SD-WAN for enterprise is a 3 part series of reports. You will receive all 3 reports with this purchase.

Part 1: Enterprise networking challenges: How can SD-WAN help?

Format: PDF filePages: 8 pagesCharts: 2Author: David Martin, Matt PooleyPublication Date: June 2019

Table of contents: 

  • Introduction: What networking challenges are faced by today’s digital enterprises?
  • Which networking challenges does SD-WAN address?
  • Challenge 1: Managing the costs of WAN links
  • Challenge 2: Improving control of hybrid WAN and multicloud environments
  • Challenge 3: Assuring service and prioritising business-critical traffic
  • Challenge 4: Introducing new sites and capabilities
  • Challenge 5: Preventing attacks and mitigating security risks
  • Challenge 6: Managing different network domains and services across the whole enterprise
  • Challenge 7: Future-proofing enterprises’ advancing requirements while reducing complexity
  • Conclusion: Is SD-WAN really a one-stop shop solution?

Part 2: Flavours of SD-WAN: What’s on offer and which work?

Format: PDF filePages: 19 pagesCharts: 1Author: David Martin, Matt PooleyPublication Date: June 2019

Table of contents: 

  • Introduction: SD-WAN as a solution to the networking challenges of digital enterprises
  • What are the aspects of different SD-WAN deployments?
  • Aspect 1: CPE (dedicated appliance, uCPE or cloud)
  • Aspect 2: Networks (overlay, hybrid or dedicated)
  • Aspect 3: Network topologies (hub and spoke, partial mesh and full mesh)
  • Aspect 4: Security (integrated or not)
  • Aspect 5: Extension across geographies and domains
  • Conclusion: SD-WAN – one solution, many flavours

Part 3: Predicting the future: Where next for SD-WAN?

Format: PDF filePages: 11 pagesCharts: 2Author: David Martin, Matt PooleyPublication Date: June 2019

Table of contents: 

  • Introduction: SD-WAN and future evolution
  • Defining the evolution pathways in detail
  • Conclusion: What does this mean for enterprises and SPs?

 

Technologies and industry terms referenced include: artificial intelligence, CPE, edge computing, enterprise networking, IoT, mesh, network-as-a-service, nfv, SD-WAN, SDN, security, Virtualisation