SD-WAN competitors

SD-WAN competitors
Cisco https://www.talosintelligence.com/ https://umbrella.cisco.com/	vManage or vBond Dashboard ( Cloud service ) vSmart ( controller: processing policy, routing ) cloud service. Edge: router ASR and ISR series sw: HV, public cloud: AWS/Azure , VNF(on white box) 3 Functions: Encryption ( ASIC, or on x86 ) Segmentation ( #VRF but easier ) isolation of integrated FW ( Zones, sec policy ) +New security NG FW: App signature DB/App FW , IPS + feeds : Talos ( Thread management) Cisco Umbrella: cloud service security: DNS filtering, blacklist , Internet secure GW: look at the traffic >> scrubb, filter +between cloud/S3 storage AWS and user/branch Compliance: Health care: HIPA Finance:PII How the data is manage / personal data management Who can talk to what How do we respond to attack? https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/sd-wan/demos/podcast.html
Aryaka	MyAryaka ( cloud ) + Mgt: cfg/monitor / correlated/Diagram-Logical and geo + Analytics ( traffic by App , per site or all sites, WAN/LAN Latency per site / per WAN optimization / Acceleration technology: TCP compression ( BW or per sites ) Want to replace MPLS Cloud centric / Saas Platform offering: built a L2 private network ( PoP around the world , <50ms ) Smart SDN platform: Orchestration layer, application acceleration , optimization, Smart CDN: smart connect: wan optimization Connectivity to Aryaka: Basic : From the customer FW create an (IPsec) VPN over the internet Using ANAP : or Aryaka Network Access Point Send traffic to ANAP, where : 1- traffic Compress/Optimization/acceleration/ remove duplication, apply QoS 2- set up the IPsec VPN to the closest PoP 3- they can manage Active/Active or Active/Passive link to the Internet ( 1 or 2 tunnels) "Smart Edge", ANAP: can replace the router/firewall Better management of the Bandwidth, load balance, Load share, replicate, FEC/forward Error Correction, selection of path or
Silver Peak	WAN optimization unity Orchestrator : Cloud or On-premise North bound API to Orchestration: Openstack , Adva and blue planet Business Intent Overlay: BIO: >>>> Translated into Policies: performance: FEC and POC-Packet Order Correction, Internet Links Bounding , Internet break out, (First Packet IQ: classify packet on the first packet) >>> Intelligence route / per App WAN optimization: /App for those are sensitive to latency Security : Service chaining ( VM or Cloud-base) , Built-in Stateful FW Resiliency ... BIO >> virtual WAN overlay: Real-time APP, critical App, IoT traffic, Guest Wifi Help with Micro-segmentation Physical/Virtual VM, Could: Azure/AWS https://www.silver-peak.com/products/unity-edge-connect Unity EdgeConnect^™ physical or virtual appliances deliver: Always-consistent, always-available application performance Highest quality of voice and video, across any combination of transport services Unity Orchestrator^™ enables IT to rapidly and centrally define: Application Quality of Service and security policies to 1000s of sites Simplified service chaining to third-party network and security services Unity Boost^™ optional WAN optimization performance pack: Improves the performance of latency-sensitive applications Reduces transmission of repetitive data Tech Field days: https://techfieldday.com/companies/silver-peak/
Nuage Networks
Fortinet	Secure SD-WAN ( FortiOS ) +WAN path Control + Application Aware , Application Steering + User identification Edge consolidation: Router, WAN optimization + NG-FW >>> Single pan of glass NG-FW is not a VM, fully Integrated Architecture: 1- Small: only Fortigate ( firewall) 2- Large deployment : FortiManager ( Manager with North API ) and Fortigate ( CPE - FW) , no Controller , virtual domain for Segmentation. "Cloud Connect" "Fortinet SD-WAN Architecture & Demo" on Youtube Product matrix March 2019 https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/Fortinet_Product_Matrix.pdf https://www.fortinet.com/fortios User base FW: ( AD, LDAP, Radius or local ) User → Map an source IP@ Domain controller + Fornitnet Agent Digital Transformation Fortinet offer Integrated solution : SD-WAN + Secure/NGFW SD-WAN + SD-Branch/switch + Secure SD-Branch(with partner) Measure across the WAN link: performance SLA: packet loss, latency and TWAMP ( Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol) End-2-End testing Measure to O365 ( HTTP/HTTPS or icmp ) In-Band ( icmp or http ) not by the tunnel itself Switchover per Flow ( not per packet) Firewall Application : or
VMware / VeloCloud	Tech Field days: https://techfieldday.com/?s=VeloCloud+ https://techfieldday.com/companies/velocloud/
CloudGenix