For decades, we have heard debates about whether major service providers could become trapped in the “dumb pipe” model for being commodity-based providers of voice and data services. With legacy cash cows such as International toll services (remember that?) and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) drying up, the urgency to come up with new value-added services is accelerating—especially in the enterprise market.
Software-defined wide area network managed services (SD-WAN MS) hold a unique promise for the enterprise segment of communications services. Providing a virtualized networking platform that can be easily linked to value-added services from the cloud, SD-WAN provides service providers with a unique opportunity to re-capture value in enterprise services.
