We’re happy (and relieved!) to tell you that the tutorial on SD-WAN technology we’ve promised is now available HERE as a zip file that contains the PDF. There’s a license agreement on the cover page that describes the requirements for sharing this document, and I’ll expand on them again here. Note that this PDF is protected from editing, and any attempt to break that protection is a violation of our license and copyright.
First, this document can be shared only in PDF form, exactly as provided on our website. You may not edit the document in any way, including changing the text, adding information, or extracting or replacing pages. You can print it for your own use, in low-resolution form, but you cannot share it in printed form without our express consent.
Second, you must attribute this document to me (Tom Nolle) and CIMI Corporation and acknowledge our copyright if you post a copy to another website. You must also include a link to our website. If you send copies of this document via email, the email must contain the attribution, copyright acknowledgement, and link.
Third, you may not use this document in any way that implies our endorsement of a product, service, or company. That means that you may not distribute it in, or in association with, any sales/marketing event without our consent.
Next, for those of you who follow my posts on LinkedIn, I want to make an earnest request for some courtesy with regard to comments. It’s bad form to hijack someone else’s post to promote yourself, your company, or your products or services. I’ve made a point of calling out people who do that, and I’m especially sensitive here because this tutorial cannot be used to promote vendors/products in the SD-WAN space. If you post what I think is a commercial, I’ll ask you to take it down. If you don’t, then I won’t respond to any comments from you in the future, and I’ll disable comments on this thread, which means others won’t get to ask questions. Be nice here, please.
Finally, as is always the case with what goes out under my name, I wrote every word of this document. I invited an old friend, Dwight Linn of FAE Telecom Inc. to review and offer suggestions, and I thank him for his efforts. I also asked a half-dozen enterprise network executives and service provider/MSP executives to review the material, and while I can’t use their names because they’ve asked me not to, I thank them as well. No SD-WAN vendor or network equipment vendor in a related space saw this document before its release, and nobody influenced what I said in it. You can rely on that.