2019 Showcase
2019 Next-Gen SD-WAN Report
Enterprises are trying to figure out which SD-WAN solutions make the most sense for them & whether to purchase a managed solution or take a DIY approach. The SD-WAN microsite covers the latest challenges experienced by enterprises making their SD-WAN decision & how to make the best decision in a confusing market.
Sponsor Spotlight Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
SD-WAN Observations 2020 from Aruba's Kishore Seshadri
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Aryaka
Creating a Global Experience for Customers
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Bell
5G is the Perfect Complement
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Cisco Meraki
Smart Video Monitoring is Next
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Colt Technology Services
Enabling Better Global Connectivity
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.
Sponsor Spotlight MEF
Opening New Business Possibilities
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Nuage Networks from Nokia
SD-WAN 2020 Predictions with Nuage's Sunil Khandekar
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Opengear
SD-WAN and Out-of-Band Technology Provides Network Resilience
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Spirent
Next-Gen SD-WAN: Testing for Assurance
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Verizon
Driving Digital Transformation
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.
Sponsor Spotlight Versa Networks
Automation and Programmability
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.
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What the 2019 Next-Gen SD-WAN report finds
The interviews show SD-WAN maturing from a connectivity technology into a platform for digital transformation, tying together cloud access, security, and global experience while operators, vendors, and standards bodies push toward automation, assurance, and convergence with 5G.
SD-WAN becomes a business platform
AT&T reports learnings from tens of thousands of deployed sites, while Aryaka stresses knitting security, application performance, and managed services into one consistent global experience for CIO customers.
Cloud access is the core use case
MEF's Dan Pitt frames SD-WAN as the on-ramp to cloud services on-premises, in colos, or in public clouds, opening opportunity for communications service providers.
Security and Zero Trust converge
Verizon calls SD-WAN fundamental to Zero Trust Networking, virtualizing functions and coordinating policy, while Versa Networks shifts from site-to-site to a user-to-app model driven by telemetry.
5G is the next complement
Bell describes SD-WAN and 5G colliding and needing to be combined deliberately, positioning 5G as a natural complement to what SD-WAN already offers enterprises.
Resilience and assurance mature
Opengear warns SD-WAN devices must not become single points of failure, advocating out-of-band recovery, while Spirent stresses testing the first SD-WAN standard for functionality, performance, and security.
Highlights from industry thought leaders
Video interviews
SD-WAN Observations 2020 from Aruba's Kishore Seshadri
- Aruba advises centralizing where you can and distributing only where you must in SD-WAN deployments.
- Aruba sees SD-WAN as a means to interconnect hub sites in the evolving market.
Abstract
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.
Creating a Global Experience for Customers
- Aryaka's CIO customers focus on digital transformation, security, application performance, and quality of experience.
- Aryaka stresses fitting managed-service components together to create a consistent global experience.
Abstract
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.
5G is the Perfect Complement
- Bell says SD-WAN and 5G are colliding and the industry must direct both trends deliberately.
- Bell discusses combining 5G with what SD-WAN already offers enterprises.
Abstract
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.
Smart Video Monitoring is Next
- Cisco Meraki's smart camera technology offers a single management solution scalable across millions of devices.
- Meraki uses SD-WAN to tie cameras together, targeting outcomes from security to applications to analytics.
Abstract
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.
Enabling Better Global Connectivity
- Colt reports SD-WAN adoption has been a significant source of growth for the company.
- Colt discusses why enterprises are adopting SD-WAN and how its services support them.
Abstract
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.
Opening New Business Possibilities
- MEF's Dan Pitt frames SD-WAN as enabling cloud access on-premises, in a colo, or on public cloud.
- Communications service providers have an opportunity as cloud operators weigh how much connectivity to provide.
Abstract
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.
SD-WAN 2020 Predictions with Nuage's Sunil Khandekar
- Nuage Networks saw strong SD-WAN traction in 2019, engaging service providers across all three tiers globally.
- Nuage CEO Sunil Khandekar shares three predictions for SD-WAN in 2020.
Abstract
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.
SD-WAN and Out-of-Band Technology Provides Network Resilience
- Opengear warns SD-WAN devices must not become a single point of failure for business-critical infrastructure.
- A reliable, cost-effective out-of-band solution adds assurance and recovery options for SD-WANs.
Abstract
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.
Next-Gen SD-WAN: Testing for Assurance
- Spirent says testing and assurance are key to adopting the industry's first SD-WAN standard.
- SD-WAN testing spans functionality, performance, and security, and is more extensive than traditional infrastructure testing.
Abstract
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.
Driving Digital Transformation
- Verizon calls SD-WAN fundamental for Zero Trust Networking through virtualized functions and coordinated policy.
- Verizon explains why its customers are embracing SD-WAN to better protect the enterprise.
Abstract
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.
Automation and Programmability
- Versa Networks says the network is shifting from site-to-site to a user-to-app model, reducing manual tasks.
- Network telemetry from wherever the user is located enables security/compliance and automation/programmability.
Abstract
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.
"The SD-WAN market continues to be on fire with robust double-digit growth expected to continue well into the next decade."
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