Highly available software defined wide area network
AssigneeSedonasys Systems Ltd
InventorOri GERSTEL
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Abstract
A system for connecting sites of an enterprise organization over a wide area network, including: customer premises equipment (CPE) at sites of the enterprise organization; wherein the CPE are configured to communicate using at least two VPNs over a wide area network (WAN) with other CPEs of the enterprise organization; wherein each CPE is connected by a service provider edge router to the WAN; and wherein each VPN defines a tunnel for routing traffic in the IP layer between the service provider edge routers of any two CPEs.
Claims20
A system for connecting sites of an enterprise organization over a wide area network, comprising:
- customer premises equipment (CPE) at sites of the enterprise organization;
- wherein the CPE are configured to communicate using at least two virtual private networks (VPNs) over a wide area network (WAN) with other CPEs of the enterprise organization;
- wherein each CPE is connected by a service provider edge router to the WAN;
- wherein each VPN defines a tunnel for routing traffic in the IP layer between the service provider edge routers of any two CPEs, and
- wherein the tunnels are defined such that a physical path between the service provider edge routers in the at least two VPNs are diverse from each other.
A method of connecting sites of an enterprise organization over a wide area network, comprising:
- installing customer premises equipment (CPE) at sites of the enterprise organization;
- configuring the CPE to communicate using at least two virtual private networks (VPNs) over a wide area network (WAN) with other CPEs of the enterprise organization;
- connecting each CPE to the WAN by a service provider edge router;
- wherein each VPN defines a tunnel for routing traffic in the IP layer between the service provider edge routers of any two CPEs;
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- wherein the tunnels are defined such that a physical path between the service provider edge router in the at least two VPNs are diverse from each other.
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