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virtual reality Versa’s RM: There are a lot of SD-WAN solutions in the market today, so first up would be to really analyze how they wish to consume this new method of secure and intelligent connectivity. Can they build, deploy and operate it them- selves? Should they deploy and operate it themselves but have the control and management hosted elsewhere? Should they look to a managed service provider to offload this from their IT organiza- tion? It boils down to deciding between a hosted, on-premises/ do-it-yourself solution or a com- pletely managed solution. They will need to really look into the various SD-WAN offerings and see how they can handle their existing routing and networking in- frastructure. MPLS will not go away on day one, or at all, so how does the solution provide an off-ramp and on-ramp between the old-network and new? Can each site access this seamlessly? Does the solution fun- nel the traffic to a single gateway, creating a potential bottleneck and point of failure? There is so much more we can discuss on this specific point, but let’s end with applications and services. Take stock of the ap- plications and services and how they need to connect. What kind of network or micro-segmentation is needed? Do they require hub- and-spoke, full-mesh or partial- mesh topologies? What are the business needs related to SLAs for corporate, mission-critical, customer and consumer applica- tions and services? This forces a conversation with your SD-WAN provider on how flexible the solu- tion is to meet your business and user needs while also making sure compliancy, security and re- siliency needs are met. CV:What about security? What data handling considerations are at play for the transition? Aryaka’s CP: Security of end- user data must be a key consider- ation for all SD-WAN vendors. The important thing for a global SD-WAN solution is to be able to deliver business-critical traffic over a secure, encrypted private network. The SD- WAN solution itself should have a multi-layer security approach with a global private closed network, forti- fied security on the POPs, DDoS mitigation, end-to-end encrypted tun- nels and stateful firewalls. The pro- vider can partner with cloud-security platform providers to gain the added layer of advanced security controls needed for web and cloud-bound traffic. These partners would inspect traffic to provide threat prevention, data protection and access control for users, wherever they connect. CREATE A NEVER DOWN ™ NETWORK WITH ECESSA SD-WAN Ecessa provides every customer full sales support and technical support before, during and after deployment. Contact us today to learn more about our line of SD-WAN Solutions. What Makes Ecessa Different? • Premises Based Solutions • Perfect for Regulated Industries (PCI, HIPAA) • No Need to Change IP Addresses • Supports Bandwidth up to 20Gbps • ISP Monitoring & Ticketing Service (Optional) www.ecessa.com · (800) 669-6242 March - April, 2018 | Channel Vision 37