Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) - Huawei Enterprise

Huawei SD-WAN for the Cloud Era

As emerging technologies such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) become ever-more closely integrated with the cloud, enterprises are accelerating transformation toward intelligence and cloudification. This trend has caused the Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic of enterprise branches to surge, overwhelming traditional WANs that mainly rely on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) private lines.

Software-Defined (SD)-WAN is an obvious choice in the cloud era, interconnecting enterprise branches, headquarters, and multiple clouds. And by transmitting traffic over the optimal link among available links — such as MPLS, Internet, 5G, or Long Term Evolution (LTE) — SD-WAN ensures a high-quality cloud experience. This results in improved reliability, flexibility, and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) efficiency for branch networks, all while ensuring service continuity and stability.

Huawei's SD-WAN Solution provides powerful networking, a superior user experience, and simplified O&M capabilities, meeting WAN interconnection requirements of enterprises of all shapes and sizes, as well as carriers and service providers.

Features and Benefits

Intelligent Ultra-Broadband, On-Demand Interconnection

5G/wired uplinks enable reliable and scalable interconnection between enterprise branches and headquarters and clouds anytime, anywhere.
Intelligent Traffic Steering, Optimal Experience

Application-based intelligent traffic steering and optimization ensure the best possible experience for key local and cloud-based applications at branches from anywhere, including office and production applications.
Intelligent O&M, Unified Management

Unified, cloud-based management of Local Area Networks (LANs) and WANs simplifies the deployment and O&M of a vast number of branch services.

Deployment Modes

Enterprise-built

iMaster NCE — Huawei's SD-WAN controller — centrally manages the SD-WAN network.
Carrier/MSP-operated

Huawei's carrier and Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners for SD-WAN are
managing the SD-WAN infrastructure lifecycle.