?Checklist for SD-WAN functional specifications

The following is a checklist for SDWAN functional specifications to which the Fusion product conforms.

Managed Service Provider

• White labeling - leverage own brand
• Multi-tenant - installation supports multiple clients
• Simplified single line item pricing catering for bandwidth variations without a pricing change
• Bonding admin portal - cloud based administration
• Client portal - client has access to dashboard, configuration and performance
• IBM cloud-based management server including SLA guarantees for management, security and performance
• Hierarchical administration and assignment rights - service provider can allocate reseller areas
• RAG (Red Amber Green dashboard) including up time benefits and statistics 
• Leg and interface widgets for status and error conditions 
• Online product documentation of all functions and features
• Hub and spoke architecture eliminating last mile problems
• Secondary and failover hubs for resilience
• Asset management fields and annotation of CPE and leg details 

Quality of Service Ability

• Crystal clear voice 
• Default real time, interactive, routine and bulk categories 
• Reservation percentages  
• Bandwidth limitations 
• Overhead back-haul encapsulation configuration 
• Low latency/jitter algorithm
• High bandwidth algorithm
• Packet filters using IP headers
• Bandwidth adaptation to dynamically adjust to congestion situations
• Split tunneling including bandwidth reservation
• Traffic flow visualization using Netflow/IPFIX ability
• Compression

Secure edge abilities

• Uplink security including HMAC, AES128, AES256 and SALSA20
• Encryption handshaking
• Prevention of encryption interception

Steering

• Packet Distribution: Weighted round robin, Flowlet and IDMPQ.
• CPU optimization
• TCP clamping
• Source address verification
• Automated monitoring of legs
• Instant failover of legs
• Aggregation of bandwidth and legs
• Packet loss detection including setting of limits, warnings and notifications
• Leg flap detection
• Automated MTU detection and monitoring
• Full log and troubleshooting ability
• TCP Acceleration
• Port selection
• Concurrency selection
• Congestion control algorithm selection
• Cloud Connector and Accelerator
• Automated CPE provisioning
• 3 to 7 ISP legs
• Leg upload and download speed provisioning
• DHCP, Static and PPPoE settings for legs
• Secondary and multiple leg settings per interface including unlimited use of vlans 
• Floating IP and CPE based NAT 
• Public and private IP address integration for connected IPs 
• IP space management
• IPV6 and IPV4 support 

Monitoring

• CPE/node statistics 
• Leg/connection statistics 

Integrated Performance Graphing

• Scaling from 15 minutes to 1 year
• Utilization graphs
• Latency graphs
• Packet loss graphs
• Leg changes graphs
• Quality of service graphs
• CPU graphs

Private Wide Area Networking / branch networking

• Centralized branch breakout
• Firewall as a service integration with any 3rd party ISOs
• Road warrior VPN integration using Strongswan/Softether or alternatives
• DNS filtering integration
• Built-in bandwidth testing tool including history log
• 24/7 international support - without limits

Ronald Bartels works at Fusion Broadband and is driving SDWAN adoption in South Africa.

Contact him at [email protected] about connecting your business to the cloud.