SD-WAN is the Trojan Horse for CSPs to win in the road to a Dynamic Enterprise Edge. Telcos once owned enterprise services, as they were, end-to-end, with PBXs, “Centrex”, (voice) VPNs, terminal gear, etc. Then the pendulum, pushed by a combination of regulation, and competitive economics, swung away from Telcos, toward DIY. They became hollowed out, deliverers of dumb, or at least relatively simple, pipes. Today, there is a new opportunity, driven by uCPE at the edge router location, NFV, cloud services, and deep market shifts that are tearing the protected, closed worlds of enterprise datacenters and inter-location WANs apart. SD-WAN should be an opportunity to change this Public Cloud, distributed value chains, work-from-home, even Covid-19 are rendering old methods and architectures for corporate data and WAN obsolete. Its is creating opportunity for new architectures that are far more flexible. The main beneficiary, so far has been SD–WAN. On the positive side, this is a great start, if only SD-WAN and its myriad of potential benefits were better understood. On the negative side, so far we have seen modest commitment to this opportunity and to innovation. Most CSPs offer SD-WAN as a managed service, along with some kind of firewall […]