Hybrid WAN FEATURED ARTICLE

It’s no secret software is in the midst of taking over the networking world. Permeating all points of network operations, the future is now. Starring in the software-defined network hit parade is SD-WAN, which is a space growing at an exponential rate. And with this opportunity of an expanding market, providers are tasked with differentiating.

This week, Huawei (News - Alert) differentiated from the pack announcing it is the first SD-WAN solution provider to successfully navigate the rigorous European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) testing process. The independent test center explored the solution’s scalability, application based traffic steering, CPE and link resiliency to determine the Huawei SD-WAN solution worthy of a passing grade.

Co-founder and Managing Director of EANTC, Carsten Rossenhoevel said: “Huawei’s SD-WAN solution was comprehensively put to the test and we are very impressed by the results. We verified that the solution meets requirements for interconnected leased lines in the context of application-based traffic steering, elastic scalability, and cloud-based visualized O&M.”

The EANTC testing regimen leaves little margin for error; it pushed one CPE to establish over 2,000 Dynamic Smart VPN (DSVPN) tunnels. Testing illustrated that if CPE or primary link failure occurs, the Huawei solution reaches protection switching in milliseconds. In terms of performance, intelligent forwarding provides for exceptional performance of vital applications, and with visualization and monitoring tools in place, the SD-WAN solution claims to cut OPEX (News - Alert) by more than 80 percent.

Wang Shaosen, General Manager of Huawei Enterprise Gateway Domain, said: “It is a great pleasure that Huawei has become the only SD-WAN solution provider that has passed EANTC’s strict testing process…Huawei’s SD-WAN solution is designed to build WAN interconnection networks with an ultimate experience of applications, VAS acquisition, and O&M. The solution helps enterprises implement rapid transformation in the cloud era and achieve business success.”

The quickly crowded SD-WAN space requires a bit of benchmarking. This transformative technology is vital as we venture deeper into the digital era, and the reality of a software-defined networking world is no longer a vision of tomorrow.

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