The document discusses the evolution of financial markets and application delivery over time. As markets deregulated and liquidity fragmented globally in the 2000s, applications and data also spread beyond enterprises due to trends like software as a service, mobile/BYOD, and cloud computing. This caused performance issues as the enterprise ecosystem expanded rapidly. The document then outlines how wide area network technologies evolved from Frame Relay to modern software-defined WANs to support this new cloud-enabled, distributed architecture in a fast, simplified, secure, broadband, resilient manner to address this transformation. It concludes by opening the floor for questions.