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 service and 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 global WAN infrastructure of the enterprise 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.