From 2016 and still SDWAN is emerging technologies, there are pros and cons to SD-WAN adoption A rapidly emerging technology, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) both disrupts and complements today’s traditional static WANs by combining programmability and commercial off-the-shelf hardware to deliver cost-effective, highly elastic alternatives to today’s static MPLS WANs. The goal: To virtualize network hardware and services in order to make their operations more flexible and agile. However, as with many emerging technologies, there are pros and cons to adoption. Moving on from traditional WANs Traditional static WANs are built on single-purpose physical devices, and fixed circuits, offering enterprises guaranteed performance, reliability, and control. Traditional WANs have been mainstays of the telco world for decades, yet as customer requirements become more complicated, they fall short on flexibility. Due to the growing demand for enterprise, Internet of things (IoT), a...