SD-WAN technology, initially utilized for cost-effective connections between branch offices and cloud services, has evolved into a smarter solution for network edge challenges. The conversation around SD-WAN has shifted towards achieving a Secure Access Service Edge with a single vendor, managing multicloud connectivity, exploring multi-access edge computing (MEC) use cases, adopting SD-WAN as a serviceand implementing Network Reliability Engineering (NRE) across branches. HCLTech's Managed SD-WAN, powered by Cisco, is a future-ready and technology-agnostic (choose between Catalyst SD-WAN and Meraki) framework that dynamically routes and intelligently connects the enterprise's global WAN infrastructure to make it truly transport-agnostic. It is an architectural framework that simplifies leveraging investments in Multiprotocol Label Switching and enables offloading of internet traffic, thus helping with hybrid cloud adoption, providing a capability to be carrier-agnostic and improving user experience.