This article was written by an independent guest author.
SD-WAN and MPLS are two technologies that are often perceived as either-or solutions. For many organizations, however, SD-WAN and MPLS can complement each other.
This article will define and compare the technologies, explaining how, in many cases, they work together.
We’ll also explore SD-WAN’s popularity and its role in enabling modern security architectures like SASE.
Defining SD-WAN and MPLS
SD-WAN
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is a distributed networking technology that provides a sustainable alternative to high-latency hub-and-spoke network topologies.
Before SD-WAN, hub-and-spoke networks directed branch office traffic to a centralized data center, often through MPLS dedicated lines, as remote and home-based workers connected through VPN. While this model worked well in the past when all applications were installed on the desktop or data center servers, the rapid proliferation of cloud applications and services overloaded MPLS circuits….
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Posted by: Mark Stone |
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April 12, 2021 at 04:08PM
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