The old model
Classic enterprise WANs backhauled every branch to a central data center over dedicated circuits. Today, much of the traffic goes to cloud and SaaS, so sending it all through headquarters adds distance and cost.
A fabric-based design
Instead, branches connect to the nearest Peer1IX location — an exchange, Micro PoP or Edge Data Center. Those locations act as regional hubs. The fabric connects hubs to each other, to data centers and to cloud on-ramps over private paths.
Branch connectivity options
- A local access circuit into the hub.
- Broadband or 5G with an SD-WAN overlay that terminates at the hub, using IPsec or a virtual SD-WAN gateway on Peer1ix Virtual Edge.
Security at the hub
Instead of a firewall in every branch, policy can be enforced centrally with Peer1ix FWaaS at the hub.
Benefits
- Shorter paths to cloud and SaaS.
- Fewer long-distance circuits.
- Central policy and visibility.
- Simple onboarding for new branches.
