Presentation

As a Service in the Cloud, ExtremeCloud SD-WAN Orchestrator enables you to easily configure network appliances and manage the applications over the network.

Each defined Customer corresponds to a set of physical appliances positioned at the measurement or control points of a network. The appliances build the connections between the sites and when routing the traffic, they also control, compress and accelerate it on the entire network.

In this documentation, Use Case 1 and Use Case 2 illustrate a simple network where the connections of three sites are done through/over the MPLS, or over the Internet, or both.

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Use Case 1 architecture corresponds to a hybrid mode network (with at least one bridge appliance, one bridge/router appliance and one full router appliance).

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Use Case 2 corresponds to a full router mode network (all appliances are deployed in router mode).Both Use Cases are used to describe the configuration procedure required by the Orchestrator to build the underlay and overlay network of site connections.

SD-WAN Orchestrator management includes the following features:

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Application Visibility to understand application usage and performance over the entire network. The system provides clear application performance KPIs, high level consolidated reports, and very detailed information at the flow level.

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Application Control to guarantee user experience by controlling each application flow in real-time, depending on the network resources.

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WAN Optimization to accelerate delay sensitive applications and reduce bandwidth consumption.

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Dynamic WAN Selection to guarantee application performance across hybrid [MPLS + Internet] networks, improve business communication continuity, exploit large network capacity at low cost, benefit from Internet immediacy and ubiquity, eliminate complex policy based routing and unify the management of hybrid networks. The system automatically and dynamically selects the best path for each application flow across the various networks.

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Management of the network devices (in bridge, full router or hybrid mode) to configure the connections between the sites and route the applications over the network.