Virtualize the WAN
SD-WAN
Compose a seamless experience between users and applications in today’s cloud-enabled digital enterprise with the next wave of networking technology: SD-WAN.
About
Compose the Next-Wave Network
Traditional networking is outdated and outmoded. It was never designed to deal with the demands of today’s digital enterprise: globally distributed, cloud-enabled and always on.
As a result, WANs have become expensive, complicated, difficult to manage, and unreliable — with application performance suffering as a result.
An evolved network is needed to help secure and accelerate the digital transformation. SD-WAN is a transformational networking approach to assure optimal application performance, deliver increased network agility, and significantly reduce cost.
Why
Transform the Enterprise
SD-WAN solutions provide the software abstraction to create a network overlay and decouple network software services from the underlying hardware.
- Simplify WAN Operations
- Assure App Performance
- Choices in Edge Security
- On-Ramp to Any Cloud
Capabilities
Hybrid WAN
SD-WAN uses deep application recognition, dynamic traffic steering, path selection, and link condition analytics to optimize your existing Hybrid WAN links and bandwidth use — ensuring enterprise-grade performance and availability for applications on-premises and in cloud.
Cloud-First Approach
SD-WAN leverages a cloud-delivered approach to support your growing branch network, multi-cloud environment, and SaaS adoption. SD-WAN’s transport-independent architecture, intelligent traffic steering, centralized management, and zero-touch deployment provide optimized and automated secure access to cloud.
Policy-Driven Networking
SD-WAN applies policy-driven networking to proactively manage the network via intelligent, customizable business policies. With SD-WAN, you can set policies for traffic segmentation, application priorities, security services insertion, and more, to automate network configuration and processes.
Edge Routing or Branch Routing
SD-WAN replaces the branch router to improve routing functionality, simplify IT configurations and installations, and facilitate centralized management of the branch network — enabling you to scale quickly and securely.
Security Services
SD-WAN centralizes management of network security, enforces network-wide security policies, and provides visibility into network usage and compliance. With SD-WAN, you can insert third-party firewall and cloud security services in any traffic route — allowing branch users to securely access the data center, SaaS applications, and the cloud.
Features
Deliver Secure, Fast, and Reliable Access to the Cloud
As branch networks grow and need direct access to cloud resources and SaaS applications, traditional WAN remains complex to deploy and data center dependent. SD-WAN enables branch agility and scalability, aggregates existing transport links into a virtual unified pool of resources to optimize performance, and provides secure access to cloud.
Multi-Path Connectivity
Dynamic Traffic Shaping
App-Aware Routing
Centralized Management
Rapid Branch Deployment
Enhanced Cloud Services
Key Benefits
Get the benefits of a software-defined network
Better performance
Maximize bandwidth usage and increase reliability with multi-path connectivity and intelligent traffic shaping
Increased agility
Via centralized software, easily modify and adjust the network per the enterprise’s changing needs
Reduced cost
Augment or replace MPLS connections with broadband internet services to lower WAN costs by up to 90%