India, March 20 -- Can a challenger attract attention in an SD-WAN market dominated by entrenched incumbents? Infovista says it can, as it re-launches its two-year-old Ipanema SD-WAN with new capabilities designed to help operators prioritize and guarantee performance for strategic applications.
"Current SD-WAN solutions focus around router and MPLS replacement. They lack application intelligence," Mike Wilkinson, Infovista chief product officer, tells Light Reading (a claim that Infovista's competitors dispute -- more on that later).
The updated Ipanema SD-WAN, released Monday, is a new solution that has little in common with previous versions, Wilkinson says. It provides the kind of application intelligence that Infovista claims is abse...