ABSTRACT

Starting with problems and challenges faced by enterprise WANs, Software-Defined Wide Area Network Architectures and Technologies provides a detailed description of SD-WAN’s background and basic features, as well as the system architecture, operating mechanism, and application scenarios of the SD-WAN solution based on the implementation of Huawei SD-WAN Solution. It also explains key SD-WAN technologies and analyzes real SD-WAN deployment cases, affording readers with design methods and deployment suggestions for the SD-WAN solution.

The information presented in this book is easy to understand and very practical. It enables you to become adept in the SD-WAN solution’s implementation and design principles. The book is intended for ICT practitioners, such as network technical support engineers, network administrators, and network planning engineers, to use in studying theory. Furthermore, it serves as reference material for network technology enthusiasts.

Authors

Cheng Sheng is the Chief Architect of Huawei’s SD-WAN Solution. He has nearly 20 years of experience in network product and solution design, as well as extensive expertise in product design and development, network planning and design, and network engineering project implementation.

Jie Bai is an Architect of Huawei’s SD-WAN Solution. He is well versed in Huawei security products and SD-WAN Solution and has written books such as Huawei Firewall Technology Talk as well as Huawei Anti-DDoS Technology Talk.

Qi Sun is a Senior Information Architect of Huawei, and he is knowledgeable in Huawei SD-WAN Solution, CloudVPN Solution, and Cloud Management Solution. He also participated in the information architecture design and delivery of multiple solutions.

chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

WAN Developments

chapter Chapter 2|23 pages

Emergence of SD-WAN

chapter Chapter 3|32 pages

Introduction to the SD-WAN Solution

chapter Chapter 4|31 pages

Starting from Sites

chapter Chapter 5|105 pages

Site Interconnection

chapter Chapter 6|81 pages

Guaranteed Application Experience

chapter Chapter 7|30 pages

Security: Top Priority

chapter Chapter 8|32 pages

Easy O&M

chapter Chapter 9|45 pages

SD-WAN Best Practices

chapter Chapter 10|11 pages

SD-WAN Components

chapter Chapter 11|18 pages

SD-WAN Outlook