• Cloud Edge Secure Access
• Welcome to SonicWall Cloud Edge!
• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • Accessing the Client Management Console
  • Installation Methods
• Networks
  • Understanding Networks
  • SDP Networks
  • Regions and Gateways
    • Adding a region
    • Adding a gateway
  • Connecting Infrastructure
    • Prerequisites
    • Site-to-Site Connections
    • IPsec Tunnel
    • WireGuard Connector
    • Connect On-Prem Resources
      • Firewalls
        • SonicWall
    • Connect Cloud Resources
      • Amazon AWS
        • AWS Virtual Gateway
        • AWS Transit Gateway
      • Alibaba Cloud
      • Microsoft Azure
      • Google Cloud Platform
      • Heroku Enterprise
      • IBM Cloud
      • Docker
• Groups and Members
  • Members
    • Inviting Members
    • Password Requirements
    • Managing Roles
  • Groups
    • Managing Groups
    • Identity Provider Groups
  • Identity Providers (IdP)
    • Integrate Identity Providers
    • Azure AD
      • Azure Active Directory (SAML 2.0)
      • Azure Active Directory
    • Google Suite
      • Google Services
      • Google Apps (SAML 2.0)
    • On-Premises Active Directory
    • SAML 2.0
      • Generic SAML
      • Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
      • Auth0
      • Okta
      • OneLogin
      • PingIdentity
      • JumpCloud
• Securing the Platform
  • Securing Networks
    • Segmenting Networks
    • Device Posture Check
    • Network Traffic Control
    • Firewall-as-a-Service
  • Securing User Access
    • Multi-Factor Authentication
      • MFA Authentication
      • DUO Security
    • Agent-less Access
      • Zero Trust Application
        • HTTP/HTTPS
        • RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
        • SSH (Secure Shell)
        • VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
      • Zero Trust Policies and Rules
    • Agent-based Access
      • SonicWall Agents
        • Downloading and Installation
      • Agents Configuration
        • User-Groups Policies
        • Managing Configurations
        • General Configurations
        • Network Configuration
        • OS-Specific Configurations
• Monitoring
  • Activity Tracking
    • Activities and Logs
    • Member Devices
  • Monitoring Dashboard
  • Integrations
    • Amazon S3
    • Azure Sentinel
    • Splunk Cloud
• Compliance
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • SOC 2 Type 2
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Understanding Networks

The ability to create your network is one of the fundamental features of the Management Platform. This article describes the components of a network.

Each network has three basic components - Regions, Gateways, and Tunnels.

Those components enable one or more Groups of your Members to securely access your on-premise and cloud-based resources.

Network Components

• Region(s)- Physical locations where your Gateway(s) will be deployed.

  One Network can have several Regions for lower latency and better performance.
  Members connecting to a multi-regional Network will automatically be routed to the closest Region.

• Private Gateway(s) - Dedicated private servers deployed in your selected Region(s). Every Gateway has its own static IP address and can be connected to others on-premise or cloud resources by Tunnels.

  One Region can have several Gateways, which improves the redundancy of your Network and ensures better load-balancing between the Gateways.

• Tunnel(s) - Site-to-Site securely encrypted connections deployed from your Gateway(s) to your on-premise and cloud-based resources in-order to connect them to your Network. A green dot indicates that the tunnel is up. A red dot indicates that the tunnel is traffic that does not flow from one site to another.

  Tunnels can be used to connect all of your branches to one Network by easily deploying a Tunnel to each one of them. One Gateway can have several Tunnel connections.