As more and more applications move to the cloud, enterprises are faced with the challenge of providing secure and reliable access to those applications from anywhere and on any device. This is where Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN can make a significant difference. In this blog, we will explore how Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN enables secure cloud migration and application performance.
Note - Unfamiliar with SD-WAN? Understand the basics with our What is SD-WAN? Blog.
Aruba EdgeConnect optimizes access to cloud applications by allowing direct access to cloud services instead of backhauling traffic to a data center, reducing latency and improving performance. This approach has several benefits:
Aruba EdgeConnect uses dynamic path selection to steer traffic over the best-performing link for a particular application, prioritizing business-critical applications and ensuring optimal performance.
This is done by constantly monitoring the performance of each link in the WAN and automatically selecting the best-performing path for each application. By doing so, EdgeConnect optimizes the application performance and ensures that business-critical applications receive priority over non-business-critical applications.
This dynamic path selection also allows Aruba EdgeConnect to quickly detect and respond to network issues, such as congestion or link failures, by automatically rerouting traffic over an alternative path. As a result, businesses can achieve maximum network uptime and consistent application performance, even in the face of network disruptions or other issues.
Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution offers a variety of integrated and comprehensive security features to provide secure access to cloud-based applications and protect against cyber threats. Some of the key security features of Aruba EdgeConnect include:
EdgeConnect's firewall provides granular control over network traffic, ensuring that only authorized traffic is allowed to access the network.
Aruba EdgeConnect provides centralized management and orchestration of network policies and configurations. This allows network administrators to manage and monitor their entire SD-WAN deployment from a single pane of glass, simplifying the management of distributed networks and reducing administrative overhead.
With Aruba Central, administrators can easily configure and deploy new branch sites, define network policies, and manage security features across the entire network. This includes the ability to configure and manage routing, Quality of Service (QoS), security policies, and WAN optimization settings. Additionally, Aruba Central provides visibility into network performance, application usage, and security events, allowing administrators to quickly identify and resolve issues.
Centralized management and orchestration also simplifies compliance and auditing, as administrators can ensure that all devices and policies are up-to-date and in compliance with regulatory requirements. This is particularly important in industries such as healthcare, finance, and retail, where compliance is critical.
Aruba EdgeConnect offers a variety of application acceleration features that can significantly improve the performance of cloud applications. One such feature is TCP optimization, which is designed to mitigate the effects of packet loss and latency on application performance. By using various techniques like packet duplication, retransmission, and congestion avoidance, TCP optimization ensures that data is transmitted efficiently and without delay, resulting in improved application performance.
Another feature of Aruba EdgeConnect is caching, which is used to store frequently accessed data in local memory, allowing it to be quickly retrieved by the application without having to be reloaded from the cloud. Caching can significantly reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network, resulting in faster application response times and reduced network congestion.
Compression is another application acceleration feature provided by Aruba EdgeConnect, which is designed to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network by compressing it before transmission. This can significantly reduce the amount of network bandwidth required by cloud applications, resulting in improved application performance and reduced network costs.