What changes can be made to the networking sector? What innovations can make WAN, which plays a vital integrated part of the Cloud ecosystem, more cost effective, performance robust, provisioning efficient, service secure, and operation intelligent? This is what Software Defined-WAN for the Digital Age: A Bold Transition to Next Generation Networking considers, and Software Defined (SD)-WAN is the answer. The technology, solution, market, business drivers, and key players for SD-WAN are all here. The challenges become how the enterprise can effectively adopt SD-WAN so as to "pay less to do more" in WAN networking and how the communication service providers can quickly take SD-WAN to market as a niche of their service portfolio, realizing new revenue streams, growing market shares, and improving customer satisfaction. In a nutshell, how can we cash in on SD-WAN in this new digital era and transcend the WAN market to the next level? Software Defined-WAN for the Digital Age addresses these challenges. In three chapters it covers SD-WAN from the perspectives of technology evolution, enterprise adoption, and service provider portfolio & Go to Market. With some quite fresh use cases and insightful dialogues included, Software Defined-WAN for the Digital Age provides you with easy-to-follow and inspiring insights on next-gen network solutions and services. Book jacket.