CyberRatings.org, the non-profit entity dedicated to providing confidence in cybersecurity products and services through its research and testing programs, has completed an independent test of VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN by Broadcom.
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This is the third Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) test to be announced by CyberRatings this year. In August, CyberRatings published the SD-WAN test results for Forcepoint and Versa Networks.
“VMware’s SD-WAN is a full-featured solution that proved to be highly efficient.” – Vikram Phatak, CEO
SD-WAN technology helps organizations achieve operational savings by enabling remote configuration of new locations rather than requiring engineers to be onsite. Many vendors offer zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), where onsite engineering expertise is optional, other than the ability to connect a device to the appropriate internal and external links and power up the device. Once online, the device will call “home” to either headquarters or a cloud configuration service to download the operational configuration.
CyberRatings tested five devices, a high availability pair at corporate headquarters and then three remote locations: 1) a regional office, 2) a remote branch office and 3) a retail storefront. Each use case was tested for traffic content, throughput, transport, and impairments to see how the SD-WAN performed. A “AAA” score was based on Management, Routing & Access Control, Stability & Reliability, and the Mean Opinion Score (MOS).
Maximum MOS scores for Voice Over IP (VoIP/audio) are 4.41 and 4.53 for video. The VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN solution achieved a 4.39 MOS score for audio and a 4.39 score for video.
“VMware’s SD-WAN is a full-featured solution that proved to be highly efficient,” said Vikram Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings.org. “Enterprises should have this product on their shortlist.”
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