SD-WAN as Intent-Based Networking: Opportunities Abound

M. Fratto

• Proscriptive network configurations work well, but they are static and unwieldy and don’t really reflect what IT wants or users expect.

• For many organizations, SD-WAN will be their first contact with intent-based networking, which can open many opportunities.

Admit it, you really want your computers to do what you want, not what you say, but computers are really only good at doing what you tell them—nothing more and nothing less. That paradigm has driven all of our human-computer interactions, including how IT systems are designed and operate.