As cloud-based application adoption continues to accelerate, geographically distributed enterprises increasingly view SD-WAN as critical to connecting users to applications.
As enterprise applications migrate from the corporate data center to the cloud, private line connections such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) have proven to be overly rigid and expensive. With greater reliance on the internet, the opportunity to achieve "cloud speed" is better served by integrating broadband internet services into the WAN transport mix.
The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform enables enterprises to improve application performance and dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of building a WAN by leveraging broadband internet to connect users to applications.
EdgeConnect SD-WAN provides a secure network foundation for Zero Trust and SASE frameworks to tackle the networking and security challenges of hybrid working and cloud computing. The solution tightly integrates with HPE Aruba Networking SSE to form a unified SASE platform, for a simpler adoption and a faster deployment of SASE.
Additionally, EdgeConnect SD-WAN includes a built-in next-generation firewall providing fine-grained segmentation and identity-based access control capabilities, as well as IDS/IPS and DDoS defense to protect branch offices from malicious activities. Recognized by an independent, third-party organization, EdgeConnect SD-WAN has earned the Secure SD-WAN certification from ICSA Labs thanks to its advanced SD-WAN and security features.
EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform
Three components comprise the HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform:
- HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN physical or virtual SD-WAN appliances (supporting any common hypervisors and public clouds) deployed in branch offices to create a secure, virtual network overlay. This enables customers to move to a broadband WAN at their own pace, whether site-by-site, or via a hybrid WAN approach that leverages MPLS and broadband Internet connectivity
- HPE Aruba Networking SD-WAN Orchestrator, included with the EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform, provides unprecedented levels of visibility into both legacy and cloud applications with the unique ability to centrally assign policies based on business intent to secure and control all WAN traffic. Policy automation speeds and simplifies the deployment of multiple branch offices and enables consistent policies across applications. Moreover, customers can launch the SD-WAN Orchestrator software directly from HPE Aruba Networking Central which provides the ability to view the enterprise-wide SD-WAN topology, health status, and alarms of all EdgeConnect SD-WAN appliances in the SD-WAN in addition to other HPE Aruba Networking wired and wireless network devices.
- HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect WAN optimization allows companies to accelerate performance of latency-sensitive applications and minimize transmission of repetitive data across the WAN in a single, unified SD-WAN edge platform.
EdgeConnect SD-WAN key features
- Business intent overlays: HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN is built upon an application-specific virtual WAN overlay model. Multiple overlays may be defined to abstract the underlying physical transport services from the virtual overlays, each supporting different QoS, transport, failover and security policies. Groups of applications are mapped to different business intent overlays to deliver applications to users in alignment with business requirements. Business intent overlays may also be deployed to extend micro-segmentation of specific application traffic from the da
