SD-WAN: From Branch Connectivity to Universal Fabric

SD-WAN has evolved dramatically over the last decade. What started as a technology to enable cost efficient branch-to-branch WAN connectivity, its journey progressed to include the support of direct branch-to-cloud connectivity, home teleworking, and more recently security and value-added service consumption hosted at the cloud edge. What remained constant throughout this journey is Nuage Network’s approach to support this evolution by empowering Managed Service Providers with a “Universal Fabric” that removes integration barriers to meet best-in-breed network and security requirements for each enterprise customer.

In this presentation, the evolution of SD-WAN will be detailed along Nuage Network’s approach to support this evolution. Futuriom’s recent report, Trends Driving Value-added Services for SD-WAN, will be referenced extensively.

Digital transformation and multi-cloud IT strategies have created many new challenges for enterprise network architects and managers as well as for CISO teams.

Creating, deploying and managing a secure network that can flexibly deal with these changes requires a deep understanding of the intersection of SD-WAN, multi-cloud and security – a trend that Gartner observed and described as the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) in 2019.

Join Hari Krishnan, Director of Security Product Management and Lindsay Newell, Head of Marketing for Nuage Networks from Nokia as they discuss the key trends, challenges, tools and technologies that are enabling enterprises and SD-WAN service providers to secure the network of the future.

In this webinar you will learn…
+ Trends driving multi-cloud and SD-WAN adoption
+ What this means for existing approaches to network, user and application security
+ Is SASE a ‘one size fits all’ solution?
+ How Nuage Networks from Nokia is helping enterprises and service providers to address these challenges

The Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) market is now maturing and entering the sweet-spot of growth. Early use cases such as uCPE, bandwidth optimization, and MPLS redundancy or replacement have broadened to include networking analytics, advanced security applications, and direct cloud connectivity.

This webinar, hosted by Futuriom analyst R. Scott Raynovich, will unveil the results of Futuriom's fourth annual SD-WAN growth report, which included feedback from a survey of 100+ enterprise users on their plans for using SD-WAN technology. We'll also check in with Patrick McCabe from Nuage Networks on the latest trends in SD-WAN and what they are seeing in the market.

On April 15th 2020, Nuage Networks from Nokia and Asavie announced a partnership that extends SD-WAN from the enterprise branch to mobile users and IoT devices. The combination of Nuage’s industry-leading SD-WAN 2.0 solution with Asavie’s unique clientless SD Edge solution will enable service providers to deliver seamless and secure networking to all enterprise mobile and IoT endpoints, in addition to users in branch offices.

Join this webinar to gain insight on how this unique solution can help enterprises and service providers to:
- unify and simplify security and management across all enterprise fixed, mobile and IoT assets
- improve business efficiency by streamlining policy enforcement across all users and devices, in the branch and on the move
- extend SD-WANaaS to incorporate zero-footprint, clientless mobile and IoT endpoints, allowing enterprises to focus on running the business

SD-WAN has become a ‘go to’ solution for automated and simplified enterprise-wide area networks, offering the benefits of enhanced application performance, improved network efficiency and centralized policy control and management. With the increasing adoption of hybrid cloud IT environments, deployment of IoT for Industry 4.0 and the imminent arrival of 5G connectivity, there are more technology choices than ever before to meet the needs of enterprise branches and users.

Join this webinar to gain insight on how these new technologies can help enterprises to . . .
- drive business efficiency by creating a Software-Defined branch environment
- improve security and flexibility while simplifying branch networks
- take advantage of 5G, Cloud and IoT in combination with SD-WAN to accelerate digital transformation

Presented by Saurabh Sandhir, Head of Product Management and Lindsay Newell, Head of Marketing at Nuage Networks from Nokia.

In a very short time we have witnessed a massive shift in cloud. From private enterprise clouds to the era of public clouds where hybrid and multi-cloud deployments are commonplace across most networks as enterprises were seeking the optimal mix of private and public cloud assets to drive business efficiencies. Up to this point, it was the enterprise reaching out to the cloud for compute services but now we are seeing evidence of the cloud reaching out to the enterprise as public clouds try to take advantage of Industry 4.0 trends such as IoT, industrial automation, smart manufacturing, and more. Through all of this turbulent change, the one constant that has become ever increasingly important is network automation through SD-WAN.

In this webinar join Saurabh Sandhir, VP Product Management, as he takes you through a brief historical view of the evolution of the cloud and looks forward to what is coming next. Saurabh will discuss the importance of SD-WAN and why it is even more important now as enterprise networks have expanded beyond their traditional boundaries and the complexity of the network and the demands of business applications increase.


Topics that Saurabh will cover include:

- A brief historical recap of the cloud-based services
- How and why cloud-based services are moving toward the enterprise
- Why SD-WAN is more important now than ever before
- The importance of security in this new era of the cloud and how best to protect enterprise networks
- Why an SD-WAN managed service is an ideal way for enterprises to consume SD-WAN

SD-WAN Services Trends Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) has been taking the world by storm. The technology has the potential to reduce operating costs, connect applications to the cloud more efficiently, improve security, and give organizations more IT agility. But not everybody wants to do it themselves. This is driving increased adoption of SD-WAN Managed Services.

Following months of research including a survey of 120 enterprise end-users, independent research firm Futuriom has identified key trends in the market. In this webinar, Futuriom will present the findings of the SD-WAN Managed Services research and discuss these trends with experts from leading SD-WAN vendor Nuage Networks from Nokia.

SD-WAN platforms are reaching mainstream adoption, as service providers and enterprises alike seek a more efficient technology for deploying and managing enterprise wide-area-networking services. This webinar will take a look at the benefits and growth prospects of SD-WAN, based on months of primary research with service provider and enterprise end users.

Topics Covered
SD-WAN Market Highlights:

- Enterprises and service providers see SD-WAN as the edge networking platform of the future

- Futuriom expects the SD-WAN tools and software market to grow at a CAGR of 33% to $2.1 billion by 2020 and $3.5 billion by 2022

- The top drivers of SD-WAN adoption are network security and streamlined management via cloud software and orchestration