SD-WAN and Cloud WAN

VeloCloud SD-WAN

VeloCloud is now a part of the Arista WAN solutions portfolio!

Figure 1: VeloCloud connecting Arista over Cloud WAN

Arista’s leadership campus wired & wireless solution now includes an industry-leading software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and Cloud WAN solution to connect Enterprise branch offices to headquarters over the Internet, powered by VeloCloud, the newest member of the Arista product portfolio.

In this fast-paced digital era increasingly impacted by AI-based workloads, integrating robust routing with SD-WAN technology provides modern enterprises with centralized optimization and management of connectivity, security, and application control across distributed environments.

VeloCloud Security and AI Solutions Enable zero trust networking with end-to-end encryption and an integrated L7 firewall, along with AI to simplify Cloud WAN operations and advanced traffic optimization for the new traffic patterns imposed by agentic AI and genAI workloads.

VeloCloud SASESecures branch users, remote workers, and IoT devices with zero-trust network access, cloud-delivered firewall, secure web gateway, and advanced threat detection.

Arista WAN RoutingProvides enterprise-class routing platforms available in physical, virtual, and cloud forms, all running the same EOS software for operational consistency across campus, data center, cloud, and WAN environments.

Significantly reducing operational complexity and costs, the advanced Arista portfolio enables dynamic path selection, application-aware routing, and seamless integration of any transport type to help deliver reliable, high-performance connectivity for users, devices, and cloud applications. This agility allows enterprises to rapidly deploy new sites, optimize bandwidth usage, and respond quickly to changing business needs.

VeloCloud SD-WAN Overview

Driven by software-defined networking principles, VeloCloud delivers converged cloud networking from the edge to the data center and cloud. Addressing end-to-end automation, application continuity and branch transformation, VeloCloud empowers enterprises looking to advance their business outside the data center with modern, high performance operations.

VeloCloud SD-WAN is tailored for today’s distributed enterprises. Built on VeloRAIN robust AI-networking architecture, VeloCloud optimizes AI and modern workloads across distributed enterprise networks.

Benefits from Modern SD-WAN

Flexible Foundation for Edge Growth: SD-WAN is now foundational to the distributed enterprise edge — not just for building a hybrid WAN or cloud connectivity
Enable Multi-Cloud Operations: Connect users and branches securely to the cloud, through the cloud, and with the cloud without consuming data center resources
Increase Operational Efficiencies: Reduce operational complexity by harnessing the power of AIOps to rapidly identify root causes and remediate poor application performance
Empower Enterprise Employees: Enable work anywhere—securely, easily, and productively
Take Advantage of Application Flexibility: VeloCloud SD-WAN supports hundreds of popular secure service edge (SSE) providers and virtual network functions (VNF) applications
Take on New Use Cases: Embrace new applications at the edge with an SD-WAN platform designed for digital transformation

Capabilities to Support Enterprise Operations

Dynamic Multipath Optimization

Zero-Touch Provisioned

Deep application Recognition

Dynamic Application-Based Slicing

High-availability Deployment Models

Enhanced Firewall Services

Global Network of Gateways

Centralized Management via Orchestrator

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The VeloCloud SD-WAN Difference

Cloud Native Workload and application performance
VeloCloud SD-WAN and SASE support a wide range of services, including AWS Cloud WAN, Azure Virtual WAN, and Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center.
AI Networking and AIOps
VeloRAIN is a reference architecture used by VeloCloud to identify and prioritize applications with new intelligent capabilities. It introduces an innovative application layer approach to network-based slicing and employs AI to automate network operations using anonymized real-time data to dynamically adjust policies.

VeloCloud Security and AI

AI Networking for AI Workloads

AI-driven applications are disrupting long-established upstream/downstream edge traffic ratios, their traffic is encrypted and therefore hard to identify for analysis and prioritization, and agentic AI workloads are sensitive to latency and dropped packets. This is why modern organizations are looking to Arista to enable networking infrastructure refresh projects to better support these unique AI workload requirements outside the datacenter.

Explore I&O leader considerations for distributing AI workloads with Gartner >>

Review EMA Paper: The AI-Ready WAN: How VeloCloud Closes the AI Networking Gap >>

Securing your WAN

Advanced network security capabilities, such as end-to-end encryption, integrated next-generation firewalls, secure web gateways, and zero-trust access are foundational to enabling modern operations outside the data center.

VeloCloud SASE

VeloCloud SASE, combines best-in-class VeloCloud SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE) to connect users located anywhere to applications at the edge, cloud, and data center, in a reliable, secure, and optimal manner. The solution delivers better user experience, reduces operational complexity, and helps mitigate compliance risk.

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SASE Use Cases

Cloud migration: 81% of enterprises are expected to have workloads deployed in multiple clouds .
SaaS adoption: Increasing use of SaaS applications exposes the enterprise perimeter to websites whose risk or reputation may not be well known.
Edge transformation: New edge-native applications are being deployed at branch locations or in mobile edge destinations like police cars or ambulances.
Hybrid work: Major surveys indicate approximately 50% of employees are expected to work remotely or in a hybrid environment.
Stop new generation of attacks: VeloCloud SASE prevents targeted ransomware attacks that exploit legitimate software and endpoints to hide their tracks.
Ensure compliance: Enterprise data is spread across data centers, the public cloud, SaaS clouds, and the edge.
Protecting data: A substantial amount of enterprise data gets generated and consumed in the cloud or at the enterprise edge.
WAN upgrades: Bandwidth requirements at the edge continue to increase and enterprises look for ways to keep the WAN link costs within budget.

The VeloCloud SASE Difference

Security Service Edge for VeloCloud is a cloud-hosted solution that offers threat and data protection with users access applications in the cloud.
Bancolombia increased business agility by upgrading and connecting ATMs and branch offices due to the easy implementation of the VeloCloud SASE solution.
Reuse and adapt your existing SD-WAN and SASE for edge compute deployments with SASE to optimize and secure connections to the edge and integrate with edge compute.

Arista WAN Routing

Arista’s WAN Routing, designed for enterprise WAN routing use cases, combines cloud-grade routing software, enterprise-class WAN routing platforms, carrier/cloud-neutral Internet transit options, and CloudVision^® automation software to simplify and improve customer wide area networks.

Based on Arista’s EOS^® software and CloudVision’s cloud-based management and orchestration services, Arista WAN Routing delivers advanced traffic engineering, encrypted fabric management, and predictive diagnostics and analytics from the cloud to the edge that simplify the WAN and lower WAN operating costs. Enterprise-class routing features are available in a broad series of physical, virtual, and cloud platforms – all using identical EOS software.

Highlights:

Arista AWE-7200R Series Platforms offer the performance and scale to meet modern enterprise WAN edge and aggregation requirements.

CloudEOS™ virtual and cloud platform is fully supported by Arista WAN Routing as a transit hub and connectivity architecture.

Cloud on-ramp and transit options

CloudEOS with WAN transit gateway services is widely deployed in all major public cloud platforms and marketplaces, via customer on-premises appliances, and in Equinix Edge, Metal, and Fabric services.

Arista’s WAN Routing features are available in a series of physical, virtual, and cloud platforms – all using identical EOS software.

CloudVision^® Pathfinder Service

CloudVision is Arista’s modern, multi-domain management platform that leverages cloud networking principles to deliver a simplified NetOps experience. Now with the addition of CloudVision Pathfinder Service for the enterprise WAN network, customers can manage their global WAN infrastructure including WAN site management, WAN fabric provisioning, policy management, traffic engineering, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

CloudVision PathFinder Service - Modernizing the Enterprise WAN

Pathfinder Routing System enables Arista clients to deploy a consistent networking architecture across all primary Enterprise network domains from the campus to the edge to the cloud to the data center with a single instance of Arista EOS and a consistent management platform and operating model.

Arista delivers SD-WAN Features and Technologies with Cloud-Managed Service:

Secure ZTP for remote and distributed network devices and services
Automated deployment and management of the encrypted network fabric
Managed EVPN Route Reflectors for site-to-site discovery and scaling
Automated Provisioning and auto-scaling of transit hubs for multi-cloud and multi-carrier peering and connectivity
Self-Healing and dynamic rerouting for edge to aggregation traffic issues
Federated Path Computation Engine for Aggregation-to-Core-to-Cloud multi-pathing

Adaptive Virtual Topologies: simplify and automate provisioning and engineering of application specific topologies
Native integration with overlay SASE and Zero Trust Network Access services
Arista NetDL to provide accurate time-series streaming telemetry storage, data enrichment, and predictive analytics and models to be applied for predictive failure modeling, accurate root cause analysis, and traffic engineering
Arista Pathfinder Service is delivered as part of the Arista CloudVision Platform*

*CloudVision Pathfinder Service is available as part of an advanced feature package for use with Arista’s WAN Routing System platforms. Check with your Arista representative for supported platforms, timeframes and availability.

Equinix

Arista has partnered with Equinix to develop both virtual and physical implementations of the Arista Pathfinder system that are deployable globally in Equinix facilities. This enables customers to have access to a globally distributed WAN core leveraging multi-carrier and multi-cloud transit options - all provisioned through Arista CloudVision and through the Arista CI architecture.

“Arista Pathfinder leverages Equinix’s Network Edge, Equinix Metal, and Equinix Fabric services to deliver scalable routing architectures that accelerate customers with cloud and carrier-neutral networking,” stated Zachary Smith, Global Head of Edge Infrastructure Services at Equinix. “Pathfinder’s ability to scale, in software, from a single virtual deployment to a multi-terabit globally distributed core that reallocates paths as network conditions change is a radical evolution in network capability and self-repair.”

https://community.equinix.com/t5/Announcements/Arista-s-CloudEOS-Router-is-now-on-the-Network-Edge-Marketplace/ba-p/1179

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMim_I79LWM

https://www.equinix.com/resources/webinars/equinix-metal-arista-cloud-on-ramp

https://docs.equinix.com/en-us/Content/Interconnection/NE/deploy-guide/Arista/NE-Arista-specs.htm

WAN Dynamics

WAN Dynamics is a reseller of Arista cloud networking solutions and was an early adopter of the Arista WAN Routing System.

“As an Elite Arista Partner, we have been using Arista EOS and CloudVision for years and testing the Arista WAN Routing System in production environments for several quarters. The software quality and features within the system are ideal for enterprise network architectures embracing modern distributed application architectures across a blend of edge, campus, data center, and cloud and SaaS environments,” stated Jason Gintert, chief technology officer at WAN Dynamics.

https://www.wandynamics.com/blog/wan-dynamics-arista-certified-services-partners

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