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The first several years of SD-WAN solutions consistently failed in production. This failure was primarily due to an overall lack of understanding of the differences between legacy, routed WAN solutions and the new SD-WAN solutions that leveraged policy differently to forward traffic instead of relying on the routing protocols. The disaggregation of data and control plan for policy-based decision-making in SD-WAN effectively grandfathered much of the skill of the world’s best network engineers. SD-WAN felt as if programmers purposely sought to eliminate network engineering as a skill in favor of active software-based decision-making.
It is interesting that the WAN engineer and the SD-WAN engineer can have an entire conversation ...
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