Why would a large enterprise need an aggregation router or edge platform?
Large enterprises use aggregation devices to help manage the explosive growth in network traffic due to mobility, cloud networking, video, and collaboration. An aggregation router or edge platform can consolidate traffic streams and help an enterprise maintain consistent performance among its various sites and cloud locations.
The recent and rapid expansion of remote work, digital collaboration solutions, and multicloud environments has heightened the need for managing network traffic and application performance more efficiently.
Why would a service provider need an aggregation router or edge platform?
Network service providers need to deliver high-performance services and high-bandwidth applications to their customers on demand. And they need to be highly secure, reliable and efficient in that delivery.
Aggregation routers and edge platforms help to flexibly and cost-effectively deliver complex consumer and business services. They can also improve operational efficiency while reducing the risk of downtime.
What is SD-WAN and how does it relate to aggregation?
SD-WAN (software-defined WAN) is an approach to managing a WAN. Organizations use a remote SD-WAN console to manage network connectivity between branches, data centers, cloud instances, and the devices of employees working from home. Options to select link types and deploy connectivity, troubleshoot issues, and observe and secure traffic while applying policies and templates across the entire network can cut costs and improve the overall digital experience.
Aggregation devices can enable an SD-WAN platform to combine multiple WAN connections, using various network transports, and network services such as encryption. The SD-WAN platform can then forward those aggregated connections and services across WAN connections at high speeds to external networks like the cloud to provide a better experience. If the aggregation router or edge platform contains a hardware-accelerated data plane or custom silicon, performance will be optimal.
What do the newest aggregation devices offer?
As more workforces become distributed and remote and more apps move to the cloud, it's important to create network architectures that can evolve. Organizations that want to adopt emerging technology like 5G require the flexibility to deploy any service, anywhere—and implement intelligent capacity planning without compromising performance or uptime.
The latest aggregation services routers enable multicloud architectures, delivering scalable cloud applications for the best connected experience. To do this, aggregation devices provide high-performance SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) platforms, rich cloud networking, and security capabilities to give IT teams needed visibility and control.
The latest ASR technology can provide the application visibility that IT and network teams need to deliver consistent, reliable connectivity and application performance over networks and services that the organization may not own or directly control.
