Historically, the branch office of an organization was the red-headed stepchild of the network. Today, transactions, workflows, applications, and data requests at the branch need to be just as fast as those being processed at the network core. The number and types of end users and the increasing volume of voice and video traffic and business applications connected to the branch network have multiplied. SD-WAN solutions were developed to overcome the networking challenges that traditional MPLS-based branch network strategies couldn’t address.”]