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Comparison of the SD-WAN vendor solutions
Lasted Updated: July 12, 2017 (Juniper added)
Velocloud
SD-WAN Solution
Viptela
Versa
Silver Peak Citrix
Riverbed
Cloud-Delivered Secure
Versa
Silver Peak
SteelConnect SD-WAN
Netscaler
Talari
Ecessa
Nuage/Nokia Juniper
SD-WAN
Nuage VNS Cloud CPE with SD-WAN
Cloud SD-WAN
Unity
Extensible
SD-WAN
IP Platform Network SD-WAN Controller
VeloCloud
vSmart
SD-WAN Unity
NetScaler
Policy Provisioning
Orchestrator
controller
controller Orchestrator SD-WAN
VSC
SteelConnect Network
Ecessa
Manager
Insight
NSC
Edge/PowerLink NSG
NFX-series /
Controller
CSO
Center SD-WAN CPE
Velocloud Edge Viptela vEdge FlexVNF
Unity
CloudBridge SteelConnect Talari
SRX-series EdgeConnect
Gateway
Appliances /WANworX
Appliance
Appliance
Appliance Appliance
Appliance
Appliance
Appliance
Appliance
Appliance
Appliance
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
/VNF
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
2,200
3,000
2,600
10,000+
4,000
1,300
N/A
N/A
1,400
3,000+
O (passive)
O (active)
O (active) O (passive)
O (active)
O
SD-WAN CPE Formfactor Zero Touch Provisioning No. of auto-detect applications (e.g., Skype, Facebook,…) Network Performance
O (passive) O (active)
O (passive) N/A
(active/passive) Measurement
Proprietary
BFD
ITU-T
Proprietary
Proprietary ICMP Ping
Proprietary
OWAMP
Y.1731
RPM, TWAMP, BFD, JFLOW
Dynamic Path Switching
Per-flow load balancing
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
X
O
O
X
X
Per-packet load balancing (Link Aggregation: Use multiple
links to support the same session) Unidirectional measurement and steering (Can be different upstream
O
X
O
X
O
X
O
X
O
O
O
X
O
O
X
X
X
X
X
X
O
X
O
O
X
X
(for VoIP)
(VoIP, real-time
and downstream path, Asymmetric) FEC Forward Error Control (TCP
(dynamic,
for packet loss
applications) for VoIP)
Packet Duplication
O
Use multiple links to send
(for VoIP)
X
O
X
(UDP
(for VoIP)
applications)
applications)
the same packet. Data Encryption AES-256
Segmentation Network slicing
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
N/A
O
O
VRF at SD-WAN Proprietary VPN
VRF-lite at
VRF at SD-WAN
CPE
SD-WAN
CPE
ID in IPsec
CPE
packet header
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
(3rd party)
(3rd party)
WAN Optimization Support (3rd party)
N/A: Not Announced O: supported X: not supported