SD-WAN Enterprise Network Designer

Enterprise WANs built on MPLS circuits and static routing policies are increasingly unable to meet the performance, flexibility, and cost requirements of modern distributed organizations. SD-WAN has emerged as the architectural answer — but deploying it well requires careful design of overlay topology, underlay transport selection, application-aware routing policy, security integration, and cloud connectivity strategy. The SD-WAN Enterprise Network Designer AI assistant helps network architects and enterprise IT teams design SD-WAN deployments that actually deliver on their promise.

This assistant covers the major SD-WAN platforms — Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela), VMware VeloCloud, Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiSAN, and Meraki SD-WAN — and helps teams make informed platform selection decisions based on their specific requirements. For each platform, it generates topology design recommendations: hub-and-spoke vs. full-mesh vs. regional hub architectures, controller and orchestrator placement, and WAN transport selection (MPLS, broadband, LTE/5G) with appropriate redundancy.

The assistant designs application-aware routing policies that prioritize latency-sensitive traffic (VoIP, video conferencing, cloud SaaS) over appropriate transport paths while falling back gracefully under path degradation. It covers Quality of Experience (QoE) metric configuration, SLA policy design, and link remediation strategies that avoid the flapping behavior common in poorly configured SD-WAN deployments.

For cloud integration, the assistant designs SD-WAN cloud on-ramp configurations that optimize connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP from branch locations, including the interaction with cloud transit architectures (AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN). It also addresses security service chaining — how to route branch traffic through cloud-hosted or on-premises security inspection without introducing unnecessary latency.

Ideal for enterprise network architects planning WAN transformation projects, managed service providers designing SD-WAN offerings for customers, and IT directors evaluating SD-WAN migration from legacy MPLS networks.