Software-defined WAN offers organizations flexible connectivity, facilitates cloud strategies and improves application performance, all in a secure environment. It also can improve operational efficiencies and help control or reduce WAN costs. Approaches to SD-WAN implementation and supported capabilities vary from one OEM to another. This briefing will explore four of the top SD-WAN vendors and highlight the innovative features that set each of their solutions apart, including a live demonstration of our on-demand SD-WAN lab environments and explanation of how to access them.

SD-Branch is an umbrella label applied to the growing interest in a cloud-managed single vendor stack for the branch. The solution is comprised of SD-WAN, SD-LAN all wrapped in security and often delivered with elements of SASE and SSE. In this briefing we will talk through the strengths and challenges of the top OEM's in this space covering: Cisco-Meraki, Aruba, Juniper/MIst, Nile and Fortinet.