The Best SD-WAN Vendors: TCP Proxy

Your company needs to reduce latency, packet loss, or jitter, on a site-to-site application.

Of course, you’ve been researching if SD-WAN might be the solution.

In this video, AeroCom President, Mike Smith, explains why certain SD-WAN vendors might be a better fit for this purpose, than their competitors. It’s all about TCP Proxy!

Need a recommendation on the best SD-WAN vendors that offer TCP Proxy across their own private backbone? Click below.

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About the Host
Mike Smith is the Founder and President of AeroCom and has been helping companies with telecom and cloud services since 1999. He has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards and in 2011, he was honored as one of the top 40 business people in Orange County, CA., under 40 years old. Follow Mike on LinkedIn, Twitter or SpiceWorks.

Transcript:

So your company is looking at improving your WAN efficiency and maybe you’re looking into SD-WAN to do so.

So what that means is you’re looking to reduce packet loss, reduce jitter, reduce latency as you’re passing applications from site to site. If that’s the case, one of the things you might want to look into is using an SD-WAN service provider who can do something called TCP Proxy.

So, from a theoretical standpoint, what TCP Proxy will allow your service provider to do is, instead of a traditional VPN where your smallest packets are sent first (in order to see if there’s possible packet loss), and then resent from the originating source… with TCP Proxy, the largest packets are sent right away. So that right there is going to speed up your network.

And then what’s cool (if you use an SD-WAN service provider who has their own private IP backbone and is doing TCP Proxy on their nationwide or worldwide POPs, (Points of Presence)), if a packet is sent, say that a large packet gets sent out, and there’s some packet loss… the packet is resent actually from your nearest geographic POP with that service provider as opposed to being sent all the way back from the originating source.

So, because of that reason, SD-WAN might be a great option for you to improve WAN optimization across your network as long as you use an SD-WAN service provider who offers TCP Proxy and has their own private IP backbone to do the TCP Proxy on.

Need a recommendation on the best SD-WAN service providers to quote, who offer TCP Proxy across their own private IP backbone? Ask Mike! Email or phone 877-465-3505