| Comparison of the SD-WAN vendor solutions |
Lasted Updated: July 12, 2017 (Juniper added)
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Velocloud |
Viptela |
Versa |
Silver Peak |
Citrix | Riverbed |
Talari |
Ecessa |
Nuage/Nokia |
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SD-WAN Solution |
Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN |
Secure Extensible Network |
Versa Cloud IP Platform |
Silver Peak Unity |
Netscaler SD-WAN |
SteelConnect |
SD-WAN |
SD-WAN |
Nuage VNS |
Cloud CPE with SD-WAN | ||||||||||
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SD-WAN Controller Policy Provisioning |
VeloCloud Orchestrator |
vSmart controller |
SD-WAN controller |
Unity Orchestrator |
NetScaler SD-WAN Center |
SteelConnect Manager |
Network Controller |
Ecessa Insight |
VSC |
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SD-WAN CPE |
Velocloud Edge |
Viptela vEdge |
FlexVNF |
Unity EdgeConnect |
CloudBridge |
SteelConnect Gateway |
Talari Appliances |
Edge/PowerLink /WANworX |
NSG |
NFX-series / SRX-series | ||||||||||
| SD-WAN CPE Formfactor |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
Appliance /VNF |
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Zero Touch Provisioning |
O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||||||||||
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No. of auto-detect applications (e.g., Skype, Facebook,…) |
2,200 |
3,000 |
2,600 |
10,000+ |
4,000 |
1,300 |
N/A |
N/A |
1,400 |
3,000+ | ||||||||||
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Network Performance Measurement |
O (passive) Proprietary |
O (active) BFD |
O (active) ITU-T Y.1731 |
O (passive) Proprietary |
O (passive) Proprietary |
O (active) ICMP Ping |
O (passive) Proprietary |
N/A |
O (active) OWAMP |
O (active/passive) RPM, TWAMP, BFD, JFLOW |
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Dynamic Path Switching |
O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||||||||||
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Per-flow load balancing |
O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||||||||||
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Per-packet load balancing (Link Aggregation: Use multiple links to support the same session) |
O | O | O | O | O | X | O | O | X | X | ||||||||||
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Unidirectional measurement and steering (Can be different upstream and downstream path, Asymmetric) |
O | X | O | X | O | X | O | X | O | O | ||||||||||
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FEC Forward Error Control for packet loss |
O (dynamic, for VoIP) |
X |
O (TCP applications) |
O | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
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Packet Duplication Use multiple links to send the same packet. |
O (for VoIP) |
X |
O (UDP applications) |
X |
O (for VoIP) |
X |
O (for VoIP) |
O (VoIP, real-time applications) |
X | X | ||||||||||
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Data Encryption AES-256 |
O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||||||||||
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Segmentation Network slicing |
O VRF at SD-WAN CPE |
O Proprietary VPN ID in IPsec packet header |
O | O |
O VRF-lite at SD-WAN CPE |
O | O | N/A | O |
O VRF at SD-WAN CPE |
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WAN Optimization Support |
O | O |
O (3rd party) |
O | O | O | O | O |
O (3rd party) |
O (3rd party) |
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N/A: Not Announced
O: supported
X: not supported
See Also,
SD-WAN traffic path control and WAN quality enhancement solutions by vendor: (2) Citrix, Netmanias Tech-Blog
Netmanias Interview with Nuage/Nokia - Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN), Netmanias Report
D-WAN traffic path control and WAN quality enhancement solutions by vendor (1): Silver Peak, Netmanias Tech-Blog
Survey - Operator’s Managed SD-WAN Services, Netmanias One-Shot Gallery
SD-WAN TERMS | Netmanias' Definition
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What's the difference between an 'X' and an 'O' in the above table? Would be good for you to add a legend indicating this.
Hi Ralph, my understanding is as follows:
- X : not supported
- O : supported
Very nice summary, do you have details on the report ?
e.g - When you say WAN Optimization support what all does it iinclude ?Compression > De-Duplication ?
from my opinion, if dedupe / compression, it may affect the quality of network. If running VOIP, the voice quality may be affected.
Does SD-WAN support scenarios where the Applications accessed are in Datacenters or in cloud dcs where the CPE or any BOX cannot be installed ?. SD-WAN for the enterprise , yes i understand it would work. I am talking about B-C (Business to CLient) scenarios.
thanks,
Balaji KCS
Very nice summary. Really useful for comparing products and getting good reference.
Thank you for this summary. But, its more than one year old (which is an eternity in the SD-WAN old :) ).
Hope we will see a update soon.
Wow very nice summary!
What about Meraki? Why it's not considered in SD-WAN solutions?
Looking forward to an update to this excellent material. Add more vendors and add more features! Excellent information.
Hi can you update about merraki in this comparrison
Could you please add Peplink / Pepwave to this?