SD WAN | Discover software controlled networks
What is SD-WAN?
Wide-area networks defined by software or SD-WAN (software-defined networking in a wide area network) , are a business design approach to optimize the use of resources in the internal networks of companies, to improve performance and use by time to route traffic to remote locations.
This type of technology allows managing multiple types of connections from MPLS , broadband to LTE.
To explain it in a simple way, the SD-WAN is a way to apply software to prioritize and order the traffic of our network, be it Internet or interconnection of offices, sending the use of certain applications through certain links, considering the speed, Internet latency and consumption of these applications.
A correct analogy would be to think of the data traffic of a company as the congestion of cars on a busy avenue, the SD-WAN vendors would be the authority capable of ordering it to ensure adequate flow and not waste time.
How SD-WAN works
SD-WAN changes the rules of the game in terms of administration and monitoring of broad networks. This technology allows grouping and managing all types of connections from secure to public.
Through software we control the communication of our links. For example: we can direct the traffic of collaborative Software such as Office 365 through a low-latency Internet link and reserve the higher capacity links for software that demand greater data delivery and Internet consumption.
In this graph you can see how link balancing works to send non-essential application traffic through the Internet link with the lowest latency.
Wide-area networks defined by software or SD-WAN (software-defined networking in a wide area network) , are a business design approach to optimize the use of resources in the internal networks of companies, to improve performance and use by time to route traffic to remote locations.
This type of technology allows managing multiple types of connections from MPLS , broadband to LTE.
To explain it in a simple way, the SD-WAN is a way to apply software to prioritize and order the traffic of our network, be it Internet or interconnection of offices, sending the use of certain applications through certain links, considering the speed, Internet latency and consumption of these applications.
A correct analogy would be to think of the data traffic of a company as the congestion of cars on a busy avenue, the SD-WAN vendors would be the authority capable of ordering it to ensure adequate flow and not waste time.
How SD-WAN works
SD-WAN changes the rules of the game in terms of administration and monitoring of broad networks. This technology allows grouping and managing all types of connections from secure to public.
Through software we control the communication of our links. For example: we can direct the traffic of collaborative Software such as Office 365 through a low-latency Internet link and reserve the higher capacity links for software that demand greater data delivery and Internet consumption.
In this graph you can see how link balancing works to send non-essential application traffic through the Internet link with the lowest latency.
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