From a channel partner perspective, is the SD-WAN market going to transform the networking industry?

[SD-WAN] moved rapidly from initial concept last year to production deployments during 2015. [While] SDN remains elusive in the data center, SD-WAN is real and is changing the way companies connect users in the branch with applications. Channel partners are realizing the opportunity that SD-WAN presents because never before has a technology emerged like this that offers the end customer upwards of 90 percent cost savings … all while interoperating with existing networking solutions in the IT infrastructure.