SD-WAN Solutions Resources

Management APIs are planned for future releases of Oracle SD-WAN.

In response to your first point, Oracle can in fact support this. However, we don’t recommend it and prefer/recommend having HA pairs at each location – for two key reasons: Failure of the interconnect could result in both appliances becoming active, resulting in unpredictable network behavior The alternative approach using Geographically Diverse controllers would provide quicker and deterministic failover between data centers in the case of a major data center failure. Your second point is incorrect. Oracle can and does support the ability to establish IPSec tunnels on either untrusted or trusted interfaces. We support policy-based VPNs today; we are looking into supporting route-based VPNs in the future. For any further comments or questions please feel free to reach out to the Oracle SD-WAN team via email at: oraclecomms_ww_grp@oracle.com@oracle.com. with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share.

MPLS and SD-WAN are often pitted against other. It's a false dichotomy – in fact, SD-WAN technology is often used to augment MPLS in a hybrid WAN architecture. The MPLS market is still huge, despite its expense and its limitation for accessing cloud applications. Based on various forecast sources (e.g. IDC, Grand View Research, Research and Markets, etc.), in 2018 the global MPLS revenue is slated to exceed $15 Billion. Telecom operators keep MPLS prices high as the service gives enterprises predictable and reliable private network connectivity. While it's costly and infeasible for meeting enterprise needs for multi-cloud access, MPLS functions seamlessly within an SD-WAN architecture alongside internet links, especially between headquarters and larger remote offices. Even those enterprises that intend to eventually eliminate their MPLS WANs usually begin SD-WAN deployment with a hybrid architecture, avoiding the need for a "rip and replace" forklift upgrade, preferring instead to eliminate MPLS after 12-18 months, perhaps when their MPLS contract expires, or when sufficient network reliability has been proven with the deployment of failsafe SD-WAN technology.