eBook – Required Capabilities for Effective and Secure SD-WAN: The Network Leader’s Guide

With digital acceleration, WFA, and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks placing increased demands on bandwidth requirements to securely deliver the experience users demand, SD-WAN requirements are maturing. However, many solutions on the market today are incomplete. Issues like limited scalability, the lack of automation to simplify operations, and lackluster cloud on-ramp and cloud and SaaS integrations can result in a poor user experience that can undermine the value of an SD-WAN deployment. Further, enabling a direct internet connection via SD-WAN means traffic is no longer backhauled through the data center to apply security controls. Therefore, to be effective, an SD-WAN solution must include a robust set of networking, connectivity, and security tools that can meet and adapt to the dynamic nature of today’s networks. The solution must be able to keep up with rapid cloud adoption, transition from regional to global deployments, office or branch expansion, and the remote workforce.

SD-WAN has been evolving from a point product to becoming a platform and foundational for SD-Branch and SASE transition. As a platform, it needs to be able to support this transition in a seamless way and with unified management.

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