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Which are the three focus areas for reinventing the WAN? (Choose three.)

The correct answer is C. Secure Elastic Connectivity D. Application Quality of Experience E. Cloud First. The three key focus areas for modernizing and reinventing the WAN are Secure Elastic Connectivity, ensuring flexible and protected network access; Application Quality of Experience, prioritizing and optimizing application performance; and Cloud First, adapting the network to…

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Question

Which are the three focus areas for reinventing the WAN? (Choose three.)

Options

  • AExecution
  • BCentralized device authentication
  • CSecure Elastic Connectivity
  • DApplication Quality of Experience
  • ECloud First
  • FOperations

How the community answered

(58 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    91% (53)
  • F
    3% (2)

Why each option

The three key focus areas for modernizing and reinventing the WAN are Secure Elastic Connectivity, ensuring flexible and protected network access; Application Quality of Experience, prioritizing and optimizing application performance; and Cloud First, adapting the network to cloud-centric architectures. These areas drive the evolution of SD-WAN solutions.

AExecution

'Execution' is a broad term relating to implementation but not a specific technical focus area for WAN reinvention.

BCentralized device authentication

Centralized device authentication is an important security feature but is typically a component or enabler within 'Secure Elastic Connectivity' rather than a standalone, overarching focus area for WAN reinvention.

CSecure Elastic ConnectivityCorrect

Secure Elastic Connectivity focuses on building a WAN that is both highly secure and flexible, adapting to changing business needs and connecting various endpoints and cloud resources reliably and safely.

DApplication Quality of ExperienceCorrect

Application Quality of Experience (App QoE) emphasizes ensuring that critical applications receive optimal performance, prioritizing traffic, and utilizing the best path selection to deliver a superior user experience over the WAN.

ECloud FirstCorrect

Cloud First networking recognizes the shift to cloud applications and services, requiring the WAN to provide direct, optimized, and secure access to cloud environments, reducing backhauling and improving efficiency.

FOperations

'Operations' refers to how the network is managed, which is certainly impacted by WAN reinvention, but it's an outcome or a characteristic of a modernized WAN, not a primary focus area driving its design like the other three.

Concept tested: Cisco SD-WAN (WAN Reinvention) key pillars

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/sd-wan/what-is-sd-wan.html

Topics

#WAN transformation#SD-WAN principles#Application QoE#Cloud networking

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