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Aruba Associate Cloud & SD-WAN Flashcards

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  1. What is SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network)?

    Answer: A software-based approach to managing WAN connections that abstracts the underlay transport from the overlay network

    SD-WAN is a software-defined approach to WAN management that abstracts the underlying transport (MPLS, broadband, LTE) and provides centralized policy-based traffic management across multiple WAN links.

  2. What is the primary benefit of SD-WAN over traditional WAN architectures for enterprise branch offices?

    Answer: SD-WAN enables intelligent, application-aware traffic routing across multiple WAN links with centralized management

    SD-WAN improves on traditional WAN by enabling application-aware traffic steering, load balancing across multiple transport links, and centralized policy management from a cloud controller.

  3. Which Aruba product line provides SD-WAN capabilities for branch office deployments?

    Answer: Aruba EdgeConnect

    Aruba EdgeConnect is Aruba's SD-WAN solution designed for branch offices, providing application-aware routing, WAN optimization, and centralized management via Aruba Orchestrator.

  4. What is the role of the Aruba Orchestrator in an SD-WAN deployment?

    Answer: To serve as the centralized SD-WAN management and policy controller for all EdgeConnect appliances

    Aruba Orchestrator is the centralized management platform for Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN, providing policy configuration, template management, visibility, and orchestration across all branch appliances.

  5. What is a key feature of SD-WAN that allows organizations to reduce costs compared to traditional MPLS-only WAN?

    Answer: SD-WAN can use lower-cost broadband Internet links alongside or instead of expensive MPLS circuits

    SD-WAN allows organizations to augment or replace expensive MPLS circuits with lower-cost broadband Internet connections while maintaining application performance through intelligent traffic steering.

  6. What does 'application-aware routing' mean in the context of Aruba SD-WAN?

    Answer: Traffic is steered over WAN links based on the specific application's requirements such as latency, jitter, or packet loss thresholds

    Application-aware routing in Aruba SD-WAN identifies applications and routes their traffic over the WAN path that best meets their specific performance requirements, such as low-latency paths for VoIP.