David Hughes is chief executive officer at Silver Peak, the broadband and hybrid wide area network (WAN) company that has done much to foster wider adoption of software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology in enterprise branch offices over the past couple of years.
The pace of scale of enterprise and service provider SD-WAN deployment accelerated sharply in 2017
2017 was a good year for software defined wide area networks (SD-WANs), as increasing numbers of end user organisations replaced branch office routers with lower cost and easier to manage virtualised solutions.