Sophos has introduced a new version of Sophos Firewall with Xstream software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) capabilities and virtual private network (VPN) enhancements.
“Today’s globally distributed networks coupled with the explosion of cloud-based applications are forcing many organisations to re-think their traditional WAN architectures,” said Raja Patel, senior vice president of products at Sophos. “A key pillar of our Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) strategy, the new SD-WAN and VPN capabilities integrated in Sophos Firewall enable organisations not only to embrace these necessary changes, but to also adopt flexible wide area network connections and improve resiliency and cloud application performance.”
Key new SD-WAN capabilities include:
- Xstream FastPath acceleration of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPN traffic: New FastPath controls automatically put important SD-WAN tunnel flows through Xstream Flow Processors in XGS Series appliances
- SD-WAN orchestration: A new Sophos Central management feature
- SD-WAN profiles with multi-gateway support: A new SD-WAN link management solution
- SD-WAN performance monitoring and logging: New performance monitoring and logging tools
“SD-WAN improves site availability, cost and performance for enterprise WANs, and is aligned with the broader shift of applications to public cloud workloads. There is high client interest in SD-WAN products, and we estimate that more than 50,000 customers have deployed SD-WAN products in production networks. Further, we expect continued rapid growth of SD-WAN deployments, and forecast vendor revenue to grow at a more than 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the next three years,” according to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2021.
