{"id":1595,"date":"2018-10-08T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2018.dc5g.com\/?page_id=1595"},"modified":"2018-10-08T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:42:09","slug":"research-brief-cutting-through-the-sd-wan-confusion-a-handy-guide-for-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/research-brief-cutting-through-the-sd-wan-confusion-a-handy-guide-for-enterprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Brief: Cutting Through the SD-WAN Confusion: A Handy Guide for Enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With billions of dollars in upcoming revenue forecast for the\u00a0<a class=\"a-l\" title=\"What is Software-Defined WAN (or SD-WAN or SDWAN)?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/sd-wan\/definitions\/software-defined-sdn-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a>\u00a0market, there\u2019s plenty of \u201c<a class=\"a-l\" title=\"2017 SD-WAN &amp;#038; Virtual Edge Report &amp;#8211; Download\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/reports\/virtual-edge-report-nuage-networks-citrix-systems-download-companion-2017\/\">SD-WAN<\/a>-washing\u201d going on, with many solution providers jumping into the fray. Vendors slap the\u00a0<a class=\"a-l\" title=\"The Essentials of SD-WAN Architecture: Advantages and Options\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/sd-wan\/definitions\/essentials-sd-wan-architecture\/\">SD-WAN<\/a>\u00a0label on their\u00a0<a class=\"a-l\" title=\"Products Directory\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/directory\/products\/\">products<\/a>, promising the world to enterprises looking to revamp their WAN. This free-for-all in the marketplace leads to confusion for enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>And while the\u00a0<a class=\"a-l\" title=\"Corporate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/about\/\">SDxCentral<\/a>\u00a0Research team\u2019s own analysis and market research point to a clear demand by enterprises for new WAN solutions, our surveys also show that confusion abounds about which vendors are the best fit for a given enterprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/articles-analysis-research-brief-cutting-through-the-sd-wan-confusion-2018-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With billions of dollars in upcoming revenue forecast for the\u00a0SD-WAN\u00a0market, there\u2019s plenty of \u201cSD-WAN-washing\u201d going on, with many solution providers jumping into the fray. Vendors slap the\u00a0SD-WAN\u00a0label on their\u00a0products, promising the world to enterprises looking to revamp their WAN. This free-for-all in the marketplace leads to confusion for enterprises. And while the\u00a0SDxCentral\u00a0Research team\u2019s own analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10038,"featured_media":1597,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1595\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdevents.accessintel.com\/dc5gsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}