India, March 21 -- 5G deployments could be a boon to the SD-WAN market and open up a host of new technological opportunities for SD-WAN, said Orange's Didier Duriez.
"5G will multiply the opportunities for SD-WAN... I think it will be another boost to SD-WAN adoption," Duriez told Light Reading in a recent interview. In addition to potentially increasing SD-WAN adoption, 5G could enable new use cases such as a network slice dedicated to SD-WAN, said Orange Business Services' EVP of Global Solutions.
AT&T and Verizon recently announced plans to boost their SD-WAN services with 5G. AT&T said 5G could benefit SD-WAN services by providing additional traffic management capabilities, and Verizon proposed that 5G support new use cases. Those use...