Product Overview: Peplink SD-WAN
Peplink SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking) is a revolutionary solution designed to simplify and enhance branch office networking, ensuring optimal application performance and unparalleled network agility.
What Peplink SD-WAN Does
Peplink SD-WAN leverages WAN virtualization to abstract the underlying network hardware and transport characteristics from the applications that use the network. This approach allows multiple underlying connectivity technologies such as xDSL, MPLS, cellular, and fiber to be combined into a single logical WAN connection. This integration presents a unified and reliable connection to users and applications, whether it is to the Internet or between branch offices.
Key Features and Functionality
Intelligent WAN Management
Peplink SD-WAN enabled networks are capable of monitoring WAN health and quality in real-time. This capability allows the system to make intelligent decisions on application traffic flow, ensuring that real-time services like VoIP and video are sent via the lowest latency link. The system also supports intelligent failover and active/active configurations to guarantee reliability even when a WAN link fails.
Centralized Management and Monitoring
The solution is centrally managed and monitored using a single interface, typically through Peplink’s InControl 2 cloud-based device management, monitoring, and reporting system. This allows network administrators to provision, monitor, and manage branch offices, including complex VPN configurations, from a single platform. Centralized WAN monitoring and notifications provide a real-time view of WAN health and global branch office availability.
WAN Virtualization and Bonding
Peplink’s SD-WAN utilizes SpeedFusion VPN Bonding, a WAN virtualization technology, to combine the bandwidth of multiple connections into a single logical WAN connection. This ensures secure, fast, and reliable branch-to-branch connectivity. The technology supports bonding multiple WAN connections for improved throughput and resilience, making it ideal for bandwidth-hungry and latency-sensitive tasks.
Enhanced Security
The solution provides secure VPN connections, enabling branch offices to access cloud resources securely. It also supports the offloading of public Internet traffic at the network edge, reducing the traffic sent through the VPN and enhancing overall network security.
Flexibility and Scalability
Peplink SD-WAN is highly flexible and scalable, allowing businesses to add WAN connectivity as needed. It supports a variety of connectivity technologies and can be deployed in various environments, including fixed branch offices, data centers, mobile vehicles, temporary locations, and even body-worn applications. Products like the Balance SDX, MAX HD4 MBX, and MAX Transit Duo offer modular designs and interchangeable connection interfaces, making them easily upgradeable to 5G and other future technologies.
Load Balancing and Application Awareness
The system includes advanced load balancing algorithms that decide how the device transitions between links, ensuring optimal traffic flow. It also supports application awareness, allowing administrators to set up traffic priorities to manage application traffic automatically.
In summary, Peplink SD-WAN offers a robust, centrally managed, and highly flexible solution that enhances network agility, reduces costs, and ensures optimal application performance across various branch office and remote networking scenarios.