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SD-WAN

A Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a wide area network that uses software-defined networking technology, such as communicating over the Internet using overlay tunnels which are encrypted when destined for internal organization locations.

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Required characteristics

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Secure access service edge (SASE)

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Marketplace

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SD-WAN

Nodes77
Edges76
Triples126
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025974
Components1

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SD-WAN

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related to Marketplace · 13
SD-WAN → According, Alternatively, Datavagyanik, General, Link-aggregation, Nemertes, Nemertes Research, Network World IT, North America, Pure-play SD-WAN, The, WAN, While Network World's
related to Open source · 13
SD-WAN → Additional, For, IPsec, IPv4, IPv6, Juniper Networks' OpenContrail, Linux Foundation, MEF, MEF Forum, ONAP, OpenDaylight Project, There, Tungsten Fabric
related to Deployment options · 12
SD-WAN → Amazon Web Services, AWS, Google, Most SD-WAN, SaaS, Salesforce, Service, Software, There, This, UCaaS, Unified Communications
related to Secure access service edge (SASE) · 12
SD-WAN → CASB, Data Loss Prevention, DLP, Firewall, Gartner, In December, SaaS, SASE, Secure Web Gateway, With SASE, Zero Trust Network Access, ZTNA
related to overview · 10
SD-WAN → Bandwidth, By, Due, Internet, It, Modern, This, VoIP, WAN, WANs
related to SD-WAN versus MPLS · 10
SD-WAN → An, As, Cloud-based SD-WAN, Enterprise, Internet-based SD-WAN, IT, Many, MPLS, Specifically, WAN
related to Required characteristics · 6
SD-WAN → LTE, MPLS, The, The Gartner, VPNs, WAN
related to SD-WAN versus WAN optimization · 6
SD-WAN → An SD-WAN, The, There, WAN, WAN Optimization, WANs
related to SD-WAN versus hybrid WAN · 4
SD-WAN → SD-WANs, SDN, WAN, WANs
related to Self-healing networks · 4
SD-WAN → AIOps, IT, Modern SD-WAN, SD-WANs

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network wan internet application traffic networking service cloud mpls edge data needed performance access technology wans applications citation management security

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SD-WANis acore component of secure access service edge solutions0.90text
MPLS.When SD-WAN traffic is carried over the Internetinstance ofenabling businesses to partially or wholly replace more expensive private WAN connection technologies0.80text
there are no end-to-end performance guaranteesinstance ofenabling businesses to partially or wholly replace more expensive private WAN connection technologies0.80text
VoIP callinginstance ofModern applications0.80text
videoconferencinginstance ofModern applications0.80text
streaming mediainstance ofModern applications0.80text
and virtualized applicationsinstance ofModern applications0.80text
desktops require low latencyinstance ofModern applications0.80text
WAN optimization controllersinstance ofand third party services0.80text
firewallsinstance ofand third party services0.80text
web gateways FeaturesFeatures of SD-WANs include resilienceinstance ofand third party services0.80text
quality of serviceinstance ofand third party services0.80text

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