How SD-WAN technology can help enterprises

The emergence of SD-WAN technology breaks the limitations of traditional enterprise network architecture and brings a more flexible network architecture. In the traditional enterprise network architecture, all traffic must be forwarded through the enterprise's internal data center, and the network bandwidth capacity is limited, which cannot meet the growing network needs of the enterprise. SD-WAN technology can realize multi-path parallel forwarding and distribute traffic to multiple lines, thereby improving network bandwidth utilization and performance.

1. Improvement of network performance and availability: SD-WAN technology can perform flow control and route optimization on enterprise networks, thereby reducing network delays, packet loss and other issues, improving network performance and availability, and reducing downtime by more than 90%.

2. Cost reduction: SD-WAN technology can use cheap public networks to replace expensive dedicated lines, thereby reducing network operating costs. SD-WAN can increase bandwidth utilization by more than 50%, which means that enterprises can improve network performance and availability without increasing bandwidth overhead.

3. Better network security: SD-WAN technology can integrate security policies to achieve better network security, such as VPN, firewall and other functions. At the same time, SD-WAN technology can monitor the status and traffic of the network, and can quickly respond to network security threats and improve network security.

4. More flexible network architecture: SD-WAN technology can implement a distributed network architecture, better support various application scenarios such as cloud applications, branch offices, and mobile offices, and provide a more flexible network architecture. It can reduce the configuration and management time by more than 80%, reducing the possibility of manual errors, thereby improving the reliability and security of the network.

5. Better user experience: SD-WAN technology can intelligently adjust and optimize the network according to application characteristics and user needs, thereby improving user experience.

What kind of enterprise is suitable for SD-WAN?

1. Distributed offices: If an enterprise has multiple office locations or branches, especially branches across geographic locations, SD-WAN technology can provide faster and more stable network connections and improve network reliability.

2. High requirements on network performance: If an enterprise's network applications require high bandwidth, low latency, and high reliability, SD-WAN technology can ensure maximum application performance through flexible network architecture and real-time traffic routing.

3. Hope to reduce network management costs: If an enterprise needs to change network configurations frequently, SD-WAN technology can easily modify the network topology through a centralized management platform without manual operations on all branch network devices.

4. Need for better security protection: SD-WAN technology can not only provide faster and more reliable connections, but also provide better security protection and visibility through built-in security functions, cloud security proxy and SASE-based security services, protecting Enterprise networks are protected from all kinds of threats.