Managed SD-WAN services underpin many strategic enterprise initiatives and provide cable operators with a high-growth market. As the market matures and cable operators expand their SD-WAN service portfolio, they must broaden their service portfolios and improve their operational processes to ensure they maximize this opportunity.
This paper summarizes SD-WAN trends and growth forecasts and highlights both market and operational challenges associated with managed SD-WAN implementations today; it also describes how progress that has been made in industry standards bodies can help cable operators implement an open, standards-based closed-loop automation framework that overcome these issues.