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Cisco SD-WAN is a cloud-first architecture that separates data and control planes, managed through the Cisco vManage console. You can quickly establish an SD-WAN overlay fabric to connect data centers, branches, campuses and colocation facilities to improve network speed, security and efficiency.

While SD-WAN plays a pivotal role in unifying the network edge, security has become more top of mind when looking at these solutions. Cisco, recognizing this growing trend, has added to their solution Unified Threat Defense (UTD). This capability is deployed locally on an edge device and delivers an Enterprise Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, URL Filtering, Advanced Malware Protection and Umbrella DNS security integrations.

VeloCloud provides a broad SD-WAN feature set including deep application recognition, categorization and policy treatments for traffic prioritization, dynamic path selection and impairment remediation. It also enables scalable ease of deployment and management.

VeloCloud uses VCG's to allow scalability. In a hosted solution there are hundreds of locations around the globe that can be used. Policy and configuration changes are pushed from the Orchestrator to the VCGs and then the VCGs will push the changes to the edge devices.

Many know Fortinet as one of the leaders in the security space but not many have looked at them through the lens of SD-WAN. The combination of SD-WAN, security, automation, reporting, and SD-Branch make Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN a compelling full-stack solution for branches and campuses.

The Fortinet SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). It is designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports this lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

This environment is designed to be presented from the FortiManager as the single pane of glass for configuration, monitoring and deployments.

Silver Peak's architecture begins with a robust, secure SD-WAN foundation but doesn't stop there. Unique innovations provide added performance, visibility and control, security and extensibility.

The only components used in this solution are an orchestrator and edge devices. The Orchestrator pushes the policy and configurations to the edge devices and gather stats on the network and edge device health. This allows operators to have a single pane of glass to see the status of the network as a whole, or drill down into any location or application.

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