SD-WAN is an innovative way to orchestrate application delivery, accelerate application performance and unify network connectivity – often across hybrid WAN, LAN/WLAN and cloud networks.
SD-WAN makes managing networks simple, cost effective and reliable. It also provides operational and performance benefits and huge cost savings as compared to traditional WAN infrastructure. The right SD-WAN can improve network management, decrease time to market and increase business agility.
How Do I Manage an SD-WAN?
The right SD-WAN solution should allow you to design, deploy and change your deployments and orchestrate services quickly and easily – without CLI configuration. Some SD-WAN solutions require CLI configuration, increasing complexity and requiring highly skilled, expensive IT staff at corporate and sometimes in remote locations when problems occur.
Centralized management with easy-to-use, menu-driven workflows can eliminate tedious, error-prone CLI configuration. Intuitive, cloud-centric SD-WAN workflows drive instant expansion of new network end-points, without additional operational overhead, with zero-touch provisioning to remote locations and automated “single-click” expansion of connectivity and orchestration into cloud environments.
A SD-WAN managment console should give you a complete view of the enterprise network, from the hybrid WAN at branch locations, cloud infrastructure environments and even reaching to the end user with branch wireless and wired LAN networks.