FatPipe Networks has announced its Next Gen Version 9 SD-WAN platform, which is designed to further simplify the management of a wide-area network in an SD-WAN world and provide load balancing for Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks, eliminating the need for complex routers.
The platform enables a company to integrate its SDN at the data center with the SD-WAN at the branch level. Virtual versions are available for Amazon and Azure platforms, along with VMware and other common platforms.
The Next Gen SD-WAN platform includes Layer 2 and Layer 3 support for routed and switched topologies for global SDN deployment, bridging the LAN and WAN chasm. A web-based interface automatically scales for all screens: desktop, mobile and tablets. It also includes a universal, “single pane glass” visibility across the entire network and a simplified configuration view to easily bring appliances online.
New auto-configuration functionality dramatically reduces the complexity of configuring multiple appliances; MPSec, VPN and policy routing rules are propagated to remote/branch devices automatically from a central location, in addition to improved support for legacy routing protocols by adding BGP & OSPF support into the platform.
Also, application visibility and performance provide the ability to manage application flows across the WAN, including increased flexibility in application identification and control overflow direction.
Meanwhile, FatPipe’s ‘branch in a box’ SD-WAN product combines all aspects of a branch’s requirements, such as multi-line load balancing, firewall, VPN, QoS, local Smart DNS and other features to implement a single solution at a branch. This makes a branch network very simple to deploy. With Smart DNS present in the local branch, should the cloud-based management product, FatPipe Orchestrator, be inaccessible, the local appliances can continue to perform and transmit data. This is significantly more superior to other SD-WAN products.
“Our customers are geographically dispersed around the world and require a comprehensive and deep view across the entire network from branch offices to data centers. FatPipe’s Next Gen SD-WAN platform gives them more control, visibility and a simplified approach to managing and configuring their entire global network so it performs optimally,” said FatPipe’s CTO Sanch Datta. “This upgrade represents a unified management approach that can be delivered as a comprehensive SDN + SD-WAN architecture − regardless of location, appliances, data center network, routing protocols, types of applications, devices used and configurations, including private, public and hybrid cloud models – and eliminates the need for complex routers.”
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