Why SD-WAN?

With the advent of SaaS (Software as a Service) and Public Cloud it has become crucial for every branch of an organization to be connected to the WAN or the Internet directly.
The current practice of putting up a single Firewall at the Head Office (HQ) and then connecting multitudes of branches to that particular HQ Firewall just isn’t reliable enough anymore due to the increasing demand on bandwidth consumptions and the latency increase as well.

What’s the Solution? 
SD-WANs, with the integrated SD-WAN technology in the Barracuda Cloud Gen Firewall. It has become possible for each branch office to be connected with each other and the Internet.

Key components of our SD-WAN include:

1) Ability to route traffic over your existing network connections with support for multiple network technologies including MPLS, Internet broadband, fiber, LTE, and DSL.

2) Automatic failover of network connections.

3) Ability to dynamically change network paths to optimize network traffic loads.

4) Segmentation to automatically priority and route network traffic based on its source or type.

5) A visual management console that lets administrators manage the network from a central location without dealing with physical network connections.

6) Advanced Threat Protection & Malware Protection (Optional).

7) Zero-touch provisioning of new branches and locations.

8) Support for VPNs.

With a pure play SD-WAN vendor you might only get a subset of these features but with Barracuda Cloud Gen Firewall you will get all of these features in a modular format, so you turn on the features and functions you want and leave whatever it is you don’t want. That is a great SD-WAN Solution!