Fortinet : Enabling Self-Healing SD-WAN from the WAN Edge to the Cloud Edge

The Internet is at times unpredictable and unreliable, and no matter how robust your WAN infrastructure is, brownout and blackout outages are sometimes unavoidable. Unreliable connectivity is especially a challenge for large and distributed enterprises that span multiple countries and regions that grapple with regular internet impairment.

As networks shift from traditional IP-based to application-driven, reactive to predictive, and manual to automated, as well as change to support work-from-anywhere, the business outcomes and expectations to deliver enhanced user experience and instant ROI benefits remain the same. Organizations that have deployed basic SD-WAN solutions are realizing that the time and hassle of a wide-area network that needs to be reconfigured or manually intervened-upon every time there's a wider internet connectivity issue has completely negated many benefits they sought to realize by implementing SD-WAN in the first place. As a result, the need for SD-WAN to enable a self-healing network - one that automatically fixes issues before they are widely realized - from the WAN edge to the cloud edge has now become a key requirement for organizations. So what does it take to enable Self-Healing SD-WAN?