SD-WAN vs. MPLS vs. SDN– How to Choose Right Network for your Company
SD WAN vs MPLS - The Difference in the Details Multiprotocol Label Switching - also known as MPLS - was around before software-defined wide area networking - also known as SD-WAN - came along to provide the benefits of SDN to networking that was hardware based. MPLS is a protocol for efficient network traffic flow that happens between two or more locations. MPLS operates in a similar way to switches and routers and is considered to be layer 2.5. Packet-forwarding technology is used to make data forwarding decisions. SD WAN vs SDN - The Difference in the Details It's important to know the differences between SDN and SD-WAN because while they both begin with SD, they are not the same. Their shared background in the separation of the control and data planes allow both to run on commodity x86 hardware. Both can also be virtualized. SD-WAN provides software-defined application routing to the WAN and connecting an organization's' many locations. SDN focuses internally w