IDC TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT Sponsored by: Cisco Three Key Requirements of Enterprise SD-WAN: Integrated Security, Multicloud Connectivity, and Application Reliability April 2021 Written by: Brandon Butler, Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Networks Introduction: Enterprise-Grade SD-WAN The software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market is at an inflection point. This powerful technology has moved beyond initial deployments and proofs of concept and graduated to full-scale, enterprisewide adoption. The maturation of the SD-WAN market has resulted in enterprises gaining significant value from SD-WAN deployments, and many are now looking to standardize on software-defined principles for managing their WAN. At the same time, three key, interwoven requirements of an

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