AT&T's coming SD-WAN services will tap into FlexWare

Software is beginning to simplify one of the hardest kinds of networking: wide-area networks that link up an enterprise’s remote sites, branch offices, and data centers. Now AT&T is getting in on the game.On Wednesday, the carrier announced AT&T Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), a service that will control all of an enterprise’s WAN connections with the same software.What software-defined networking has done for data centers, SD-WAN does for networks stretched acro