Why should solution providers enter or extend their offerings in the SD-WAN market?

The most immediate answer is that SD-WAN enables solution providers to add new revenue streams to their business as either a stand-alone solution or as part of an integrated offering. Since more and more applications have moved to the cloud, there's been a growing frustration with the high cost and complexity of (multiprotocol label switching) MPLS networks. Enterprises have been searching for a way to leverage lower-cost Internet for the first time in their WAN -- or if they already have multiple links to their branches, finding a way to get better use out of them without compromising performance … SD-WAN is a solution customers have been craving.