Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) virtualizes the WAN to decouple network software services from the underlying hardware —providing agility, flexibility, simplicity, performance, and scale for all enterprises leveraging the cloud.
SD-WAN solutions provide the software abstraction to create a network overlay and decouple network software services from the underlying hardware.
Provision branch offices in minutes with automated zero-touch deployment. Centrally manage your WAN from the cloud with global visibility and remediation control. Scale quickly with automation, outcome-driven policies, and end-to-end analytics.
Optimize application access performance over any type of WAN link with the intrinsic ability to determine deliver content across multiple transports.. Deliver desired quality for business-critical applications through policy-based prioritization, intelligent traffic steering, continuous link monitoring, and dynamic remediation.
Directly access SaaS, hybrid and multi-cloud through gateway as a service. Enable easy cloud adoption with managed on-ramp to any cloud. Reduce latency to cloud workloads with no data center backhaul.
Customize and enforce intelligent security policies throughout the entire network. Easily insert third-party firewall and cloud security services in any traffic route. Protect, prioritize, and isolate traffic via the zero-trust model and end-to-end segmentation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SD-WAN provides a software abstraction to create a secure, reliable, and transport-independent network overlay and decouples networking software services from the underlying hardware. SD-WAN architecture comprises of – securing network overlay, scalable secure cloud network, virtual service delivery, orchestration and analytics.
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.
As applications increasingly move to cloud and enterprises adopt SaaS applications and services, the legacy architecture and branch routers inhibit scalability and flexibility. SD-WAN delivers simple branch configuration and management, secure and reliable access to resources and applications in the cloud, and reduced install and maintenance costs.
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