Talk:SD-WAN

Wrong approach to the topic
As a network professional with +25 years of experience in the field the approach is wrong. I'll make some adjustments in order to clarify what the real difference is between standard/old fashioned WAN and SD-WAN is. CarlosRibeiro (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:42, 9 January 2020 (UTC)


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Unreliable source removed from testing and validation section
I removed the source that was added to the Testing & Validation section. It's an opinion piece written by the friend of a testing company that is mentioned in the article. It's too promotional, and as an opinion piece is unreliable, and so it fails WP:RS. TimTempleton (talk) (cont)  21:22, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Additional sourcing needed for recently added history information
I'm not comfortable with accepting the recently added history info from an SPA that is sourced using an article written by the co-founder of the organization claiming credit for having hosted the event where SD-WAN technology was created. Rather than just delete the content, I added citation needed templates in the hopes that others can provide more reliable sourcing for SD-WAN's history. TimTempleton (talk) (cont)  23:22, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I removed the sources since they are unreliable - the source points to an organization's own web site where it claims that it invented the phrase SD-WAN. At this point I'm about to remove the info giving sole credit for coming up with SD-WAN to Jim Kyriannis, unless a better reliable source can be found. TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)  23:42, 4 January 2018 (UTC) <-- Agreed. One person did not invent SD-WAN and it's self-serving for said group to cite its own materials. I added a note re: highly suspect material.
 * I pulled out the controversial content, and the talk page discussion that was started in the article body. Here it is for the purposes of a discussion:

Jim Kyriannis from New York University proposed the initial concept and use case for SD-WAN to the ONUG Board in Fall of 2013 (initially called "Hybrid WAN" and later "WA-SDN"). He presented his WA-SDN use case among seven others at the Fall 2013 ONUG Meeting, and the industry members voted WA-SDN as one of the top three priorities for the SDN industry to focus on developing. This pivotal industry event directly led to the creation of SD-WAN technology. Jim is credited with inventing the SD-WAN concept and delivering it to the industry at ONUG. <-- Just not true: SD-WAN was a brisk topic well before this --> just look at the 2013 posts from the networking nerd (https://networkingnerd.net/category/software-defined-networking/page/2/https:/networkingnerd.net/category/software-defined-networking/page/8/), which pre-date this claim. One person did not come up with the concept. this is silly. Another: Talari Networks demonstrating SD-WAN at Interop April 2013 (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EIj4tdrjCWgJ:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/interop-las-vegas-previews-news-announcements-from-over-60-exhibitors--sponsors-205261491.html+&cd=50&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari); Avaya was even talking about SD-WAN in 2013 (https://www.avaya.com/en/documents/the_2013_guide_to_network_virtualization_and_sdn.pdf?t=0).
 * Looking at the sources, there's a blog, a press releases and a primary source. None reliable. We'll need more than that to put info in the history section. The main question is whether early discussions of software defined networking (SDN) should be credited as the foundation of the concept of SD-WAN. It's a fairly technical point, which will again come down to proper sourcing and reliably correct interpretation. TimTempleton (talk) (cont)  19:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)