(Avant 2019 Cloud Channel Survey of 187 channel sellers). Although AVANT has named SD-WAN as the industry’s #1 most disruptive technology, SD-WAN’s market uptake is not yet coming at the expense of legacy MPLS technology, given that 53 percent of $1B enterprises still plan to invest in MPLS, while the lower end of the market is displacing MPLS much more quickly (Avant State of Disruption 2019). Source: AVANT State of Disruption Report 2019 SD-WAN technology can be purchased on a CAPEX model or on a monthly basis, sometimes with an upfront hardware charge for on premises equipment, or the on-premise hardware cost is rolled into the monthly charge. OPEX charges are typically charged based on maximum capacity while month- ly contracts typically charge by stair-stepped bandwidth throughput corresponding to various price bands, or alternatively by actual use statistics. When SD-WAN is looked at by the top 5 industries adopting it, Consulting/Business Services is posting the highest rate of disruption at 20 percent RDI while e-commerce and Healthcare/medical post the lowest disruption among the top five at 11 percent RDI. Source: AVANT State of Disruption Report 2019 7 Copyright © 2019 AVANT Communications, Inc.