Ramesh Prabagaran, Sr. Director, Product Management, Cisco SDWAN
As thousands of customers have adopted SD-WAN, the industry has seen more confusion than clarity with regards to feature requirements. Gartner has defined the four key requirements for SD-WAN (see below), but there still more critical features required to meet the enterprise-grade capabilities. For example, network segmentation to isolate critical applications has been a widely deployed feature since the Target breach.
This webcast will cover essential enterprise SD-WAN features beyond the basics, and how they are important for the common deployment scenarios across industries. These features include:
- Overlay capability over MPLS, Broadband and LTE
- Cloud-ready capability for SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and more
- Unified and centralized management of all WAN infrastructure
- Network segmentation with per-segment topologies
- Predictable Application SLA with centralized policies and real-time traffic steering
- Mature routing capabilities with BGP, OSPF, VRRP, and IGMP
- Unified and centralized management of all WAN infrastructure
- Robust-zero trust WAN security including authentication, encryptions, segmentation and service chaining
As a background, here are Gartner’s four key requirements for SD-WAN:
- SD-WAN solutions provide a lightweight replacement for traditional WAN routers, and are agnostic to WAN transport technologies (that is, they support MPLS, Internet, Long Term Evolution [LTE], etc.).
- Based on business and/or application policies, SD-WAN solutions allow for load sharing of traffic across multiple WAN connections in an efficient and dynamic fashion.
- SD-WAN solutions dramatically simplify the complexity associated with management, configuration and orchestration of WANs.
- SD-WAN solutions must provide secure VPNs, and have the ability to integrate additional network services and offload Internet-destined traffic closer to the edge of the network.