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How SD-WAN helps SaaS connectivity
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I am trying to understand how SD-WAN helps SaaS connectivity for an enterprise company. What I know only that SD-WAN is used for WAN connectivity between Main and Remote Offices.
For example if I am located at branch office and wants to connect with Office 365 then how SD-WAN make a connectivity with Microsoft Cloud ?
Can someone please shed some light on this ?
I am trying to understand how SD-WAN helps SaaS connectivity for an enterprise company. What I know only that SD-WAN is used for WAN connectivity between Main and Remote Offices.
For example if I am located at branch office and wants to connect with Office 365 then how SD-WAN make a connectivity with Microsoft Cloud ?
Can someone please shed some light on this ?
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Yes, using SD WAN, you can still leverage multiple connections (high-speed business Internet, broadband, wireless, you name it) and smart routing to use the right connections for the right task. And it lets workers connect directly to the Internet for SaaS and cloud applications while still retaining central network connections and traditional WAN levels of visibility and control.
Of course if you have two separate channel as shared, no issue too. You can still allow the direct internet to access SaaS without going through SD WAN. Ultimately, you can do you benchmark to use the best Internet path for their many applications and services.
Of course if you have two separate channel as shared, no issue too. You can still allow the direct internet to access SaaS without going through SD WAN. Ultimately, you can do you benchmark to use the best Internet path for their many applications and services.
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How does SD-WAN provide end to end encryption when accessing SaaS applications through SD-WAN?
Does SD-WAN first route the connection to Office 365 backbone server?
How does SD-WAN provide end to end encryption when accessing SaaS applications through SD-WAN?
Does SD-WAN first route the connection to Office 365 backbone server?
Would not be going to details but it is primarily using cloud native VPNs with branch-to-branch connectivity using meshed VPN for total data protection.
Yes it can be done. Office 365 runs on the Microsoft Global Network, which includes front end servers around the world, there will often be a front-end server close to the user's location. By providing local Internet egress and by configuring internal DNS servers to provide local name resolution for Office 365 endpoints, network traffic destined for Office 365 can connect to Office 365 front end servers as close as possible to the user.
Yes it can be done. Office 365 runs on the Microsoft Global Network, which includes front end servers around the world, there will often be a front-end server close to the user's location. By providing local Internet egress and by configuring internal DNS servers to provide local name resolution for Office 365 endpoints, network traffic destined for Office 365 can connect to Office 365 front end servers as close as possible to the user.
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This is useful when company's are back hauling internet through centralized internet gateway at the main data center but if the branches have two internet connections i.e. one is dedicated for Internet access and other for SD-WAN. In this case study, the purpose of SD-WAN is to connect branches with remote site.
As I understood, if the enterprise wants to pass through SaaS traffic SD-WAN, then SD-WAN looks for shortest path to reach Saas based server. Isn't it ? Also this is useful when SD-WAN is cloud based.
Please correct me I am wrong.
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