What is SD Branch and How is It Helping Drive SDN Adoption in Business? Lanner

Over the past few years, significant changes have been seen within both branch architecture and networking in business and technology has been at the forefront. Network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) are currently two hot topics within this area and with them, automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and other cutting-edge technologies are being brought into the fold. One of the more recent developments has been the advent of SD Branch, a concept that encompasses SDN into branch architecture so as to bring the various benefits of SD-WAN to branch networking. It is also currently being suggested that SD branch represents the next stage of SD-WAN's evolution and that this process is redefining how businesses and organisations are connecting their branch sites to either corporate or cloud data centers. In this article, we'll be looking at what exactly SD Branch is, what benefits it brings to those who invest in it, and what it could mean for the future of SD-WAN and software-defined networking.