SD-WAN is an exciting area of growth for Verizon, says Shawn Hakl, Senior Vice President, Business Products, but it is important to understand how transformative it really is. SD-WAN is really becoming a control layer that lets enterprises pull in a whole new set of services.
There has been a fairly rapid evolution of customers to whitebox solutions. Inevitably, customers don’t buy SD-WAN as a standalone solution anymore. The market wants security services and WAN optimization.
One of the most exciting things is the movement to an agile, software-development model. This changes the conversation between the Service Provider and the customer. The focus turns to business outcomes.
As we enter 2019, Verizon is looking to where else SD-WAN can go, including how it will interact with 5G.
