SD-WAN, as name states, software-defined wide-area networks use software to control the connectivity, management and services between data centers and remote branches or cloud instances. Like its bigger technology brother, software-defined networking, SD-WAN decouples the control plane from the data plane.
We also discuss the need, benefits, use cases of SD-WAN and then look at Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0, architecture and case studies.