SD-WAN Architecture: Secure Your Network for Scale and the Cloud

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud is leading the SD-WAN revolution. This webinar will walk through the unique features of VMware SD-WAN that have contributed to its status as a recognized leader in this space. There are more than 60 vendors who claim to sell SD-WAN, but when evaluating a solution, it’s important to look for one that caters to a variety of use cases and performs well in scaled environments. Additionally, the majority of SD-WAN deployments are brownfield and no customer wants to rip and replace their current infrastructure. How does VMware SD-WAN solve these customer concerns? Come join us to find out.

According to Forbes, IoT is forecasted to have 50-75% of enterprise data generated at the network edge by the year 2020; and at the same time, 83% of enterprise workload will be in the cloud by 2020. The WAN network will become more important in delivering these services to ensure high quality application performance and seamless operational technology (OT). This session will examine how SD-WAN directly enables IoT use cases by prioritizing business-critical applications, ensuring cost savings with zero-touch deployments and usage of internet links, and much more.

Enterprises are transforming their business to stay competitive in today’s rapidly changing digital world and IT must keep pace with these evolving business requirements. Enterprise WAN is no exception--enterprise IT must transform the WAN edge to be the cloud and compute edge, to ensure end-to-end application performance and continuity, and to do all of this and more in an agile, scalable, secure and cost-effective fashion.

SD-WAN has emerged as the enabler of WAN transformation. It has quickly evolved in a few short years from a connectivity infrastructure to a services platform. An ideal SD-WAN platform must encompass built-in and extensible security, support services such as analytics and application performance monitoring, an optimized migration path to a hybrid/multi-cloud strategy, and much more.

Join this webinar to learn more about the vision and evolution of SD-WAN as a platform, and why VMware is the undisputed leader to deliver this vision. Steve Woo, senior director of product and co-founder of VeloCloud, now part of VMware, will share his insights based on years of experience in the SD-WAN space.

SD-WAN is emerging as a preferred platform for accessing networking and security services using a cloud deployment model. The market is attractive to service providers because of the potential to deliver value-added services that integrate networking, applications visibility, cloud app acceleration, and network security functions. This webinar will take a look at the approaches to deploying SD-WAN to enterprise customers.

Based on a survey of more than 100 communications service providers by independent research firm Futuriom, this webinar will cover the following elements:

• What are the drivers for SD-WAN service adoption?
• What is the deployment timeframe that service providers are looking at?
• Which key features are necessary in an SD-WAN offering.
• An overview of SD-WAN market development.

SD-WAN is changing the way that organizations run their business. The continuum it offers enables new and enhanced offerings to become available that simplify, expand, and optimize all network activity.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how SD-WAN architecture provides the flexibility needed to make the necessary enhancements. Which includes enablement of secure transport, expanding bandwidth for multiple applications, video offerings, and enabling sophisticated analytics, all while turning the network into a profit center.

Growth technologies of the last several years have laid the foundation for the next wave of digital transformation. The network is no longer just a set of devices, but instead an intelligent service that links together cloud and virtualization functions. Transforming the network directly supports the larger digital transformation. The WAN architecture must evolve to support these increasing demands and become a platform for innovation. SD-WAN has emerged as an integral part of this transformation by providing a robust and agile network with greater visibility and control.

In this webinar with AT&T and VMware, hear directly from the experts how to modernize your WAN by embracing a flexible and future-proof approach to managing your WAN and improving the user experience. AT&T SD-WAN PLUS leverages AT&T’s VPN (AVPN), broadband aggregation, and SD-WAN to deliver competitive pricing and value, consolidated invoicing, proactive security and threat detection, and dramatically improved business outcomes.

Join this webinar to:

• Discover the advantages of SD-WAN and how it helps drive the next wave of digital transformation.
• Learn about how AT&T SD-WAN PLUS employs transport components using VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud VNF over the top with AT&T FlexWare.
• Hear how AT&T SD-WAN PLUS ensures an enterprise-class solution with a cloud-first approach that provides network visibility, along with simplicity and performance assurance.

For many organizations, the wide area network (WAN) infrastructure that connects an enterprise’s remote and branch offices has not changed for decades. However, as application are rapidly moving to the cloud ( SaaS and IaaS), the WAN needs to evolve in response.

Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst with ESG, Inc., will explore the challenges many organizations face with legacy WAN environments, illustrate why a new solution is needed and highlight the business value of rearchitecting with SD-WAN. This will include reviewing customer examples and a TCO model to demonstrate the value to your business. Organizations will learn how SD-WAN provides a combination of pure economic benefits as well as agility and flexibility to help organizations be successful.

Enterprises are deploying SD-WAN, at an increasingly faster pace, as an important first step towards building optimized environments that are ready for multi-cloud world. As a platform, SD-WAN is a solid first step in deploying edge security applications and services with additional security functions like next-generation firewall (NGFW), intrusion prevention, SSL inspection, web filtering, DNS security, and malware analysis needed as well. In this webinar, we will discuss how VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud lays the foundation for SD-WAN and how Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and GlobalProtect security products complement and strengthen overall security to help organizations prevent successful cyberattacks. We will also discuss how Intel architecture, network and security specific hardware and software technologies help these workloads operate in a consistent, saleable and high performance way.

Managing the wide area network can be a challenge for small business that have limited IT resources. As the use of applications grows organizations need to add bandwidth and connect to the cloud with high performance. They need to ensure that critical traffic like voice is given high priority and that they have tools to ensure performance.

In this webinar with AT&T and VMware we will show you how you can improve the quality of your WAN and increase visibility into network performance while reducing the resources that you dedicate to managing your WAN. You will learn how you can access applications from the cloud with ease and get better voice quality for your remote sites. Together, AT&T is offering a cloud-delivered SD-WAN service to all of your business needs.

Join this webinar to:

Discover the benefits of cloud-delivered SD-WAN for your small business
Find out how other businesses like yours are implementing cloud-delivered SD-WAN
Learn about the AT&T SD-WAN NOW managed service offering

SD-WAN is changing the face of networking, ushering in an era that is not limited by bandwidth, location of data and apps, and hardware. But as the technology becomes more pervasive, so does the amount of SD-WAN options available to those seeking the solution. In this webinar, we’ll take a closer look at the architecture of SD-WAN, why it’s important in the decision process, and the seven key questions that a network organization should ask when evaluating an SD-WAN solution.

In this webinar, we go a level deeper into SD-WAN Migration by focusing on its architecture and its ability to adapt to the varied network requirements of global enterprises. Topics will also include best practices and recommendations for a successful SD-WAN transformation for both regional and worldwide deployments.

The increased deployment of cloud applications, storage, hosted voice, video, mobile applications, and the emergence of IoT has challenged IT and business managers to provide high-quality WAN services to the branch. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) offers compelling advantages for distributed organizations with critical branch operations, including the benefits of business agility, optimized application performance, and increased bandwidth efficiencies.

This webinar discusses the emerging role of SD-WAN as the key element for branch and remote user connectivity, including:

-Multi-cloud optimization
-Network security
-Cloud-based intelligence and management

An over-the-top deployment enables a simple and reliable way for users to take advantage of cloud transformation. But making the transition to SD-WAN can seem overwhelming, but in reality, is not as complex as one would imagine. In this webinar, viewers will learn the best practices on how their organizations can adopt SD-WAN at scale without disrupting their existing networks.

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud helps improve operational efficiency and lowers cost of running a business without compromising on security, with a robust architecture that is uniquely flexible to secure both traffic and data. Join this webinar to learn what options VMware SD-WAN offers to secure customer networks by using built-in security capabilities or by partnering with world class security vendors for cloud-based and on-premise security deployments.

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud delivers best in class SD-WAN capabilities to deliver reliable branch office network connectivity using commercially available broadband, MPLS or LTE transport. But, security at the edge of remote sites is highly important and having the ability to deliver tight security policies along with SD-WAN capabilities is essential.

Join this VMware webinar to learn how our SD-WAN solution acts as a simple security service insertion platform to deliver enterprise-grade security functions like IPS/IDS, stateful firewall and Malware detection using local third-party DIA security engines or cloud-based security engines.