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  • About This Document

SD-WAN

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) provides software-based control over wide area network (WAN) connections.

SD-WAN is best used for specific traffic types and/or applications requiring dynamically chosen optimal destination interfaces depending on how the network paths are behaving. To operate well, each application has a certain requirement from the network path. For example, the network quality for VoIP to operate well requires the optimal latency be 100 ms or less while a latency of 150 ms or higher results in choppy calls. SD-WAN helps in such scenarios by first dynamically measuring the various network SLA metrics, such as latency, jitter and packet loss on multiple network paths. SD-WAN then compares these metrics with the SLA threshold for a particular traffic flow and determines the optimal network that meets the flow’s network quality accordingly.

From MONITOR | SDWAN, you can:

• Monitoring SD-WAN
• Viewing SD-WAN Rules Connections