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Where software-defined networking (SDN) deployed in a service provider network enables flexible deployment and usage-based solutions between high capacity sites (like headquarters and data centers) SD-WAN services help optimize traffic flows for performance and cost at branch sites.
Still in the early stages of customer adoption, SD-WAN was a hot topic of conversation at the recent WAN Summit New York, with both customers and vendors highlighting the benefits of incorporating the technology into a hybrid WAN solution.
As such, enterprises have questions about the service and how to use it in their own networks:
What is SD-WAN and how is it deployed across the network?
What common network problems does it address?
What benefits can it provide for corporate WANs?
Good news for enterprises: we have SD-WAN answers to share.
What is SD-WAN & How is it Deployed Across the Network?
SD-WAN is a service that enables enterprises to dynamically route traffic across a hybrid WAN based on current network status.
By replacing traditional branch routers with appliances that assess and utilize different transport technologies based on their performance, it allows enterprises to route large portions of their traffic over cost-effective services, such as broadband. As needed, voice, video, or other quality of service (QoS)-sensitive traffic is then routed over private multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) links.
