InfoVista Builds Application-Centric SD-WAN With Two Partnerships

InfoVista advanced its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) goals with new partnerships and integrations with ZTE and Nokia’s Nuage Networks. For both partnerships, InfoVista leverages its Ipanema virtual network function (VNF), which helps provide application visibility, dynamic WAN selection, and WAN optimization. InfoVista’s Senior Director of Strategic Alliances Ranga Thittai said these partnerships represent a shift in the SD-WAN market as it moves past the early adopter phase, or SD-WAN 1.0 as he referred to it, to an application-focused version of SD-WAN that meets growing demands, or SD-WAN 2.0. “What’s leading the way is a very deep and differentiated visibility into individual applications,” said Thittai. “There’s going to be an expectation in the market to be able to differentiate applications in a very discreet and detailed fashion. That’s essentially what we enable with our VNF.”