SD-WAN for enlightened

Tue May 2 18:19:03 UTC 2017

As of this announcement:

http://investor.cisco.com/investor-relations/news-and-events/news/news-details/2017/Cisco-Announces-Intent-to-Acquire-Viptela/default.aspx

there will be one less than before :-)

Seriously - when I first learned about them, upon service inclusion of the
Viptela products into the VzB SD-WAN offering, they (Viptela -
http://blog.ipspace.net/2014/11/viptela-sen-hybrid-wan-connectivity.html)
looked very nice, already, as standalone products. And that was a few years
back.

***Stefan

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Doug Marschke <doug at sdnessentials.com>
wrote:

> Too many to list.  I don’t know who is “winning” in market share right
> now, as I am sure each vendor tracks their wins differently.
>
> There are definitely a few making more noise than others.
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> From: Colton Conor [mailto:colton.conor at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 6:26 PM
> To: Doug Marschke <doug at sdnessentials.com>
> Cc: Kasper Adel <karim.adel at gmail.com>; NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: SD-WAN for enlightened
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> So who are the big SD-WAN players out there?
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> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Doug Marschke <doug at sdnessentials.com
> <mailto:doug at sdnessentials.com> > wrote:
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> Hello Kasper,
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> I will do my best to answer your SD-WAN question, but as you mentioned it
> is a buzzword that has a bit of confusion in its definitions.  I would say
> that a SD-WAN solution should have the following elements:
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> 1.) Ability to manage multiple WAN connection and choose the path based on
> user and machine criteria (The Hybrid WAN)
> 2.) A controller to manage the polices and operations of the SD-WAN devices
> 3.) Analytics on the network and application level
> 4.) A software overlay that abstracts and secures the underlying networks
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> Currently there are a lot of solutions out there by many vendors.  Some do
> all of these and some a subset, so it make the landscape a bit confusing.
>  Lots of times vendors use SD-WAN when they are really just talking about
> Hybrid WAN (multiple connections) or WAN optimization.
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> Subject: SD-WAN for enlightened
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> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if the buzzword SD-WAN is used to compensate for another
> buzzword that got over-utilized (SDN) or it is a true 'new and improved'
> way of doing things that has some innovation into it.
>
> I heard different explanation from different vendors:
>
> 1) appliances (+ controller) placed in-line to put traffic in tunnels
> based on policy, with some DPI and traffic tagging...(to do
> performance/policy based routing) over an expensive link (MPLS) and a cheap
> one (broadband) with some 'firewall-like' filtering capabilities.
> 2) same as above, with a flavor of 'machine learning' to find a pattern
> for traffic to optimize utilization.
> 3) a controller that instantiates and tears down tunnels from 'classic
> routers' based on external policies and Network based features to do
> performance based routing over an expensive link (MPLS) and a cheap one
> (broadband) with encryption.
>
> Is the above a decent high-level summary?
>
> Has anyone tried any of these solutions, any general feedback ?
>
> Cheers,
> Kim
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