One of my long-time regular readers sent me this question:

I was wondering if you have had any interest in putting together an SD-WAN overview/update similar to what you do with data center fabrics where you cover the different product offerings, differentiators, solution scorecard…

That would be a good idea. Unfortunately the SD-WAN vendors aren’t exactly helping.

One of rules I use in the Data Center Fabrics webinar is “talk about features, not futures” where features are defined as “things described in product documentation on public vendor web site”. This is the list of SD-WAN vendors that would meet the requirements:

• Cisco IWAN
• Silver Peak Unity

This is the list of vendors that claim to have SD-WAN solution in their marketing materials, but I wasn’t able to find any supporting documentation on their web site in September 2016 (in alphabetical order):

• Cloudgenix
• Nuage
• Velocloud
• Viptela
• Riverbed

It’s no fun comparing two vendors, so I’ll wait a bit till at least two more of them see the light (there’s also the backlog of other great things I’d like to talk about)

Note: I’ve probably missed something, so please provide more fun links in the comments.