Haku

SD-WAN-ratkaisun testaus ja arviointi

QR-koodi

SD-WAN-ratkaisun testaus ja arviointi

Software-driven wide area network (SD-WAN) services have become more widespread in recent years, and amount of companies that offer them is growing. The purpose of this thesis was to test the suitability of one manufacturer’s SD-WAN-solution as a basis for a service offered to business customers. The solution included physical network equipment as well as its cloud management software, and different tests were conducted to test the functionality of them both. The purpose of the work was to evaluate the solution based on the test results from the point of view of both the corporate customer using the service and the company providing the service.

The work was carried out by designing and building a test network in the company’s backbone network that is based on the hardware and software of the SD-WAN solution. The tests examined the solution‘s functionality, configuration possibilities and suitability to meet the requirements set by the company.

In testing, most of the solution’s features were found to be functional, but the problems of the current cloud management software version made it unusable as part of the service in its current state. However, the devices included in the solution can be manually configured without cloud management software and used in the development until the problems are fixed.

As a result of the work, both the client and the writer of the thesis were left with better information about the operation of SD-WAN and the implementation of corporate networks with it. With the test results, the SD-WAN-service project was able to move forward to practical testing in real life corporate networks.

Tallennettuna: