In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations need a network solution that seamlessly connects their geographically dispersed sites, data centers, and cloud environments. Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) has emerged as a transformative solution, offering enhanced connectivity, performance, and agility. This document explores the benefits and key features of Exium's SD-WAN solution for connecting sites, data centers, and cloud resources, enabling organizations to meet their modern networking needs. We also provide guidelines on configuring and activating SD-WAN in Exium's SASE platform.
Enterprises face several network challenges:
Distributed Sites: Managing a network that spans multiple sites, including remote branches and corporate headquarters, is a complex task. Traditional WANs may not offer the agility and performance required.
Data Center Connectivity: Secure and high-performance connections to data centers are essential for accessing critical applications and data.
Hybrid Cloud Adoption: As organizations leverage public, private, and hybrid cloud resources, they require reliable, secure, and efficient connectivity to these environments.
Network Performance: Ensuring consistent and optimized network performance, especially when connecting to cloud services, can be a significant challenge.
SD-WAN offers a comprehensive solution that addresses these challenges and unlocks several benefits:
Feature |
Description |
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Optimized Network Performance | SD-WAN dynamically routes traffic across the most efficient path, combining broadband and cellular connections. This enhances network performance, reduces latency, and ensures the best application experience. |
Centralized Management | SD-WAN provides a centralized management platform for network orchestration, allowing administrators to configure, monitor, and optimize network traffic from a single console. |
Dynamic Path Selection | SD-WAN solutions use real-time performance monitoring to dynamically route traffic across the most suitable path, ensuring that applications and cloud services receive the best available connectivity. |
Security Enhancement | Some SD-WAN solutions such as Exium's Secure SD-WAN include integrated security features, such as next-generation firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and encryption, protecting data and applications across all network connections. |
Application Prioritization | SD-WAN solutions can prioritize network traffic based on application requirements, ensuring that critical applications receive the necessary resources for optimal performance. |
Data Center and Cloud Connectivity | SD-WAN simplifies connectivity to data centers and cloud environments, providing secure and reliable connections to public and private cloud resources. |
SD-WAN is a transformative technology that enhances network performance, security, and flexibility. It is the ideal solution for connecting multiple sites, data centers, and cloud environments, providing organizations with the agility and control they need to navigate the demands of a modern digital landscape.
Exium Secure SD-WAN solves network complexity while cutting total cost of ownership. Unlike legacy SD-WAN solutions, Secure SD-WAN combines additional security features for extended protection within a single offering.
Secure SD-WAN connects remote sites to an organization’s private network using Exium’s CyberMesh. This assures complete site protection from external threats by inspecting and securing all inbound and outbound traffic from the internet, as well as cross-traffic within the site itself.
Easy to Deploy and Manage: Deploying Secure SD-WAN can be done quite easily by running Exium’s Cyber Gateway (CGW) connector software on your choice of hardware and connecting it to the CyberMesh platform using one or more last mile connections. Flexible hardware support makes deployment and management easy, while enabling organizations to use their existing hardware.
Exceptional performance: Once deployed, Secure SD-WAN delivers exceptional performance and high availability capabilities, such as active-active link aggregation, and dynamic path selection to overcome network outages or brownouts. Additionally, Secure SD-WAN includes advanced performance features, such as application prioritization and local breakout to ensure superlative quality of experience for end users.
Full-stack, enterprise-grade security: With Secure SD-WAN, remote sites enjoy all the benefits of full-stack, enterprise-grade security without the hassle of having to deploy and manage an array of multi-vendor security appliances at every location. All traffic to and from remote sites gets the benefits of Exium’s Defense in Depth security stack, which includes next-generation firewall, secure web gateway, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, and more.
For an SD-WAN solution, you would need deploy Cyber Gateways (CGW) on each site, data center, and cloud. You can create as many CGWs as you wish in the centralized admin console by following the steps below.
To learn more about implementing SD-WAN for your organization and explore tailored solutions that meet your unique requirements, contact Exium at hello@exium.net for a consultation or demonstration.