Very NaaS!

I was fortunate to join Greg Bryan again on the WAN Manager Podcast and this time we were talking about Network as a Service or NaaS and it's impact to the WAN. We also take a crack at some fun ways to say NaaS kind of in the vein of SASE being known as "Sassy". It was a wide ranging conversation and pretty fun! You should check it out here or on your favorite podcatcher.

What we covered

What network as a service really replaces, and what it quietly does not. How to separate the vendors who have built something from the ones who have relabeled a portal. Which pieces an enterprise WAN team can adopt immediately and which are still slideware. Greg's proposed new pronunciation of NaaS, which I will let you discover for yourself. And the question in the episode description with the parenthetical gasp: is the private WAN disappearing? My answer then, and now, is that it is shrinking to the places where it still earns its keep, and that is not zero.