ThousandEyes, a company that does network monitoring, says software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is making visibility more difficult, so it has created agent-to-agent tests to make it easier to pinpoint issues in both the forward and reverse paths.
SD-WAN is becoming a popular technology for organizations looking to manage multiple Internet connections, but “it’s introducing new variability in routing,” says Nick Kephart, senior director of product marketing at ThousandEyes. “Now, if you need to troubleshoot, you need a more detailed perspective.”
Prior to SD-WAN, a typical WAN connection might be a single leaf from one provider. But with SD-WAN, traffic can move through different networks in each direction.
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