IDG Contributor Network: How SD-WAN changes the network services market

Every decade or so, a business faces major shifts in its competitive landscape. To borrow from the former (and late) Intel CEO Andy Grove, these “strategic inflection points” often escape detection, but they can lead executives who heed them to make fundamental changes in their businesses. In the telecommunications industry, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is creating one of these points.The rapid rise of SD-WAN is no secret. The metrics vary, but analysts are forecas