As we entered 2020, it was easy to foresee that SD-WAN would continue to be a crucial component in enterprise digital transformation across many verticals. The driving forces were clear and included aspects such as corporate applications shifting from private to hybrid or public cloud, the move from branch- to cloud-centric networking, the demand to support ‘any-to-any’ traffic patterns (both inside and outside the enterprise perimeter) and support for sustained traffic growth while working within restricted budgets.