For today’s enterprises, their network infrastructure is their lifeblood. It allows them to connect their IT assets around the world, and connect with the partners and customers that matter to their business. It’s no wonder so many of them are looking for ways to improve performance across those networks, while also optimizing costs, resilience, scalability and flexibility. These businesses have different networking technologies to help them achieve this goal. In recent years, the software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) has been among the most prominent of these technologies. Even today, it’s clear that the SD-WAN era isn’t over: IDC predicts that the…

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