Introduction to Multitenant SD-WAN Edge:
A partner/service provider/large enterprise offering managed Multitenant SD-WAN service to its customers uses SD-WAN Edge devices to provide access to the common resources or services on its backbone network. Today, they deploy dedicated SD-WAN Edge devices (2 or more for redundancy) per customer in the provider Point of Presence (PoP) locations to share access to the critical services at their Data Centers. This becomes extremely unmanageable for the providers due to management overhead and the cost of operating these locations. While the devices are capable of 10/40/100 Gigs of bandwidth the requirement typically may be much less per customer and the hardware and the software resources are underutilized on these devices. Leveraging Multitenant SD-WAN Edge providers can deploy a shared gateway at each regional point of presence (PoP). The provider can carry inter-region traffic belonging to multiple customers or tenants through these shared gateways and the transport backbone linking the PoPs.
Multitenant SD-WAN Edge Use Cases:
Branch Use Case:
Gateway Use Case:
Service Connector Use Case:
Requirements for MTE and the Problem it Solves
Understanding and Configuring MTE
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