Category Archives: WAN Edge

02 Jan

FatPipe’s Comprehensive End-to-End SD-WAN and SASE Solution

Amidst the evolving challenges of remote work and branch connectivity, enterprises benefit from SASE, which integrates SD-WAN’s networking efficiency with a plethora of cloud security features, including zero trust network. As per research reports, by 2025, at least 60% of organizations will have explicit strategies and timelines for SASE adoption covering user, branch, and edge access. FatPipe unique technical cloud security features can help you accelerate the transition to the SASE architecture with tailored implementations that align with your organization’s unique needs.

SASE’s Vital Significance: Five Enterprise Use Cases

  • A large enterprise has several employees working from home, connecting with colleagues and customers through various collaboration tools to perform their tasks. SASE ensures secure connections, enabling employees to collaborate seamlessly while protecting sensitive information to enhance productivity.
  • An IT Services company needs to ensure secure and context-aware access for diverse user roles within its network infrastructure. SASE helps in providing a comprehensive security fabric with identity-based control and context awareness. IT professionals or user groups can be seamlessly associated with specific identities, enabling the organization to grant access tailored to roles, teams, or management hierarchies.
  • Faced with the critical need to align its network with stringent financial regulations, a pharmaceutical company must enhance its security posture, particularly in adhering to data encryption standards. Leveraging the integrated security capabilities of SASE, including robust data encryption, the pharma company can achieve regulatory compliance expectations.
  • A retail chain faces security risks as employees needed remote access to the company network while working from field and client offices. SASE offers a Zero Trust-based secure access solution, enhancing security by meticulously verifying identities and permissions before granting network access to remote employees.
  • A developing tech start-up was challenged with scaling its network infrastructure after the emergence in the need of accommodating a rise in users and escalating data loads. SASE’s cloud-native architecture provides the ideal solution, enabling the start-up to effortlessly expand both its network and security capabilities in tandem with its rapid growth path.

A large organization with a complex network infrastructure can gain from the gradual deployment capability of SASE, which enables a seamless transition without disrupting ongoing operations. FatPipe SASE provides simple yet effective transformation methods with advanced blockchain type of secure data transmission, making it easier, modular, and granular to implement secure Edge. FatPipe’s comprehensive cloud security products include Secure Web Gateway, Threat Protection and Management, ZTNA, IDS/IPS, Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), etc.

FatPipe’s comprehensive end-to-end SD-WAN and SASE solution lifecycle services meticulously encompass every aspect to improve business continuity and operational efficiency with impregnable security.

20 Nov

Catch Up with Rising Intelligence on the WAN Edge

WAN Edge refers to the device deployed at the “edge of the network,” especially at the branches. Till a few years back, these devices were expected to make routing decisions without human intervention, but with the advent of SD-WAN, the Edge devices are gaining much-needed intelligence and also are capable of performing multiple functions. Imagine effortlessly managing your WAN, elevating its performance, fortifying the security, and seamlessly integrating new heterogeneous connections of different technologies – all in one powerful suite of solutions. FatPipe Networks, the inventor and multiple patents holder of SDWAN technology has been at the forefront of making the “Edge” more powerful and intelligent to exponentially enhance the network performance. It provides unique patented technology MPSEC TM to the networking industry which has given a new dimension to Edge Intelligence. It also provides solutions for improving network performance in an existing WAN, simplifying WAN management, or adding and managing additional connections with zero-touch provisioning.

WAN Redundancy with MPSEC TM

FatPipe Multi path security patented technology allows multiple heterogeneous connections to the WAN for seamless aggregation of MPLS, Internet, 4G, leased networks, and satellite networks in one single virtual link with seamless sub-second failover to enhance network SLAs.

Dynamic load balancing on multiple lines 

FatPipe’s dynamic load balancing allows the load to be distributed on a WAN connection according to several algorithms ranging from simple round-robin load balancing to complex load balancing that determines the least number of hops from start to destination.

Multiple Quality of Service

FatPipe technology supports QoS mechanisms that let organizations prioritize specific traffic over others. This will ensure that VoIP calls have priority and the availability needed to be completed.

Data traffic Optimization

The Edge is enabled with multiple WAN Optimization techniques making it more intelligent. FatPipe data compression technology can compress data by up to 8x. FatPipe’s de-duplication technology looks for data duplicates in data sets and eliminates them. By caching local copies of transmitted data, FatPipe technology reduces the strain on network resources.

Hybrid WAN

The Hybrid WAN has the public and private networks working in parallel. We can also have internet-only branches to connect to their HQ or other data centers using an on-site or cloud gateway.

Centralized control and Policy-based management 

FatPipe SD-WAN ensures data security and decision-driven traffic routing through a centralized control function with additional benefits such as application performance, user satisfaction, business efficiency, and reduced operational expenditure. Based on policies, FatPipe manages the configurations and flow of traffic.

Dynamic path selection

FatPipe SD-WAN intelligently prioritizes data and diagnoses existing network conditions to effectively map application traffic to the best-suited route.

Last-mile connectivity

FatPipe SD-WAN devices deployed at each location elevate last-mile connectivity between sites without excessively relying on service partners, as with cloud-based solutions.

Fabric and Flat Networks

While fabric networks facilitate the seamless integration of many components, improve scalability, and enhance overall network performance, flat networks can reduce complexity in WAN environments with a simplified structure. Flat networks can improve data transfer efficiency, lower latency, and simplify management by minimizing the number of network layers.

Intelligent WAN Edge Consolidation 

FatPipe Intelligent WAN Edge consolidation typically involves simplifying management processes, improving network performance, and adding or managing additional connections into a unified and intelligent solution. The objective is to provide a more cohesive and effective approach to managing and optimizing the WAN edge infrastructure.