Barracuda
Barracuda Secure SD-WAN
Boost application performance and reduce costs
More than ever, today’s businesses rely on connectivity. Organizations are growing more reliant on advanced distributed networks and new network topologies are emerging, to accommodate the accelerating adoption of SaaS solutions and public cloud platforms. It is increasingly critical to ensure predictable application performance and reliability, along with secure, uninterrupted connectivity at all locations. Backhauling internet traffic to a central breakout is no longer sustainable once you decide to leverage SaaS applications like Exchange Online or SharePoint Online in Office 365. These cloud-connected applications increase overall traffic while requiring very low latency to work. To manage these demands, you need a different architecture that enables local internet breakouts at every location for direct access to cloud services.
Software-Defined Wide-Area-Networks (SD-WAN) are an increasingly popular and cost-effective alternative to hardwired network connections and MPLS infrastructures. SD-WAN significantly increases WAN network reliability, agility, and performance by using and aggregating multiple active, load-sharing connections of any type (Broadband/cable, MPLS, 3G/4G). Advanced data caching, traffic compression, and other WAN optimization capabilities leverage the available bandwidth. This lets you ensure that there is always enough bandwidth for business-critical applications, by automatically making dynamic, on-the-fly adjustments to QoS and application usage policies depending on real-time bandwidth and latency measurements. Unlike SD-WAN solutions that only provide connectivity—requiring a separate security solution—Barracuda CloudGen Firewall combines a complete set of SD-WAN capabilities with advanced, multi-layered security technologies in a single unit.