Orange and Cisco: SD-LAN

2019: Beginning of development of SD-LAN

On July 4, 2019 it became known that Orange Business Services and Cisco jointly work on implementation of the innovative solutions which will help clients to pass from corporate local networks (LAN) to more flexible and powerful software-defined networks of SD-LAN. It will help the companies to open for itself possibilities of network connection in the safe protected environment.

Relying on joint successful experience of use of SD-WAN, Orange and Cisco within the Open Labs program begin development of SD-LAN intended for solutions of specific business challenges — when it is necessary to involve all opportunities of network automation, analytics and security. Advantages of cooperation of two companies are obvious: 80% of the enterprises use Open Lab for check of operability of the concept of SD-WAN then they unroll pilot projects of SD-WAN together with Orange Business Services.

We are sure that our partnership with Cisco and also the principles of the Open Lab program will allow us to use flexible scalable networks SD-LAN most effectively. Relying on productive results of Flexible SD-WAN, we are going to turn a network service on the optimized and adaptable corporate network environment, speaks Pierre-Louis Biaggi, the vice president of Orange Business Services concerning network technologies

Continuous growth of number of devices, mobile applications and amount of data becomes a serious problem for traditional networks, complicating them and raising requirements to access. SD-LAN creates on a centralized basis the managed architecture of a wired and wireless network, simpler in integration, start and operation that allows the companies to work quicker and more effectively. At any time and on any SD-LAN device provides high degree of security.

In the conditions of the exponential growth of the users and devices which are connected to applications and data warehouses in different cloud environments, corporations, on the one hand, aim to ensure safety and optimal user experience, and with another, look for ways of cost reduction. Relying on our cooperation with Orange, we pass from SD-WAN to SD-LAN, offering opportunities to multidomain segmentation, automation and analytics, tells Sachin Gupta, the senior vice president for product management of division of Enterprise Networking of Cisco corporation

For campus Wi-Fi-networks SD-LAN will help to solve problems with deployment and visibility. The technology allows to control effectively provision of services, access and use of network, to expect any significant updates to ensure high-quality functioning of devices. SD-LAN provides highly protected access on the basis of identification, defining users, the IoT-equipment and devices which can be connected to network. Access can be provided or prohibited at the different levels: for example, during creation of guest groups of Wi-Fi-network.

In process of development of IoT and the expected emergence of a huge number of attached devices, their identification and control of use of network will have paramount value. SD-LAN allows to execute segmentation on the basis of attached devices that facilitates structuring network on groups, departments, etc., raising the security level and productivities.