Enterprises seeking private WAN services have more choices today than ever, including MPLS, SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE). The range of choices and the blurring of which features belong to what services makes it challenging for IT leaders to choose the right private WAN service, or combination of services, to meet their organizations’ needs.
According to Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of research for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the rise of SD-WAN roughly a decade ago “kicked off multiple waves of innovation as startups delivered solutions that made expensive routers and firewalls redundant in many remote sites. SD-WAN also triggered waves of mergers and acquisitions when Router and firewall vendors bought SD-WAN providers to preserve and extend the value of their existing solutions.”
WAN innovation keeps marching onward, and today new options have emerged, including SASE, security services edge (SSE) and even 5G.
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https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/4-questions-to-answer-before-you-pick-a-wan-service-sd-wan-sase-5g-or-something-else/2023/10/
