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Nova SD-WAN 2.0 Networking Methods

Service Mode — Nova Backbone Mode

  • The site establishes a tunnel to the NSG gateway group through an underlay link such as a dedicated line or the Internet, and achieves inter-site interconnection through the Nova backbone network.
  • Device: NSE, single/dual device (HA)
  • License:
    • Nova dedicated-line license
    • Nova Internet license
  • Access: supports multiple WAN links (dedicated line, Internet, LTE/5G)
  • Port: backbone port
  • Applicable scenarios: enterprise cross-regional networking with high requirements on latency and stability

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Hub-Spoke Mode / OTT

  • The Spoke site directly establishes a tunnel to the Hub site through an underlay link such as a dedicated line or the Internet.
  • If two Spoke sites both have public IPs, they can be directly interconnected and traffic does not need to pass through the Hub site; therefore, Full Mesh networking is supported when the sites have public IPs.
  • Device: NSE, single/dual device
  • License:
    • HS dedicated-line license
    • HS Internet license
  • Access: supports multiple WAN links (dedicated line, Internet, LTE/5G)
  • Applicable scenarios: adjacent-area networking, cost-priority scenarios

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Hub-Spoke Mode / Hierarchical Networking

  • The Spoke site directly establishes a tunnel to the Hub site through an underlay link such as a dedicated line or the Internet.
  • The Spoke (Office) site can simultaneously serve the next-level Spoke sites (Branch) and uplink to the Hub site.
  • Device: NSE, single/dual device
  • License:
    • HS dedicated-line license
    • HS Internet license
  • Access: supports multiple WAN links (dedicated line, Internet, LTE/5G)
  • Applicable scenarios: adjacent-area networking, cost-priority scenarios, many sites with systematic hierarchical distribution

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Hybrid Networking Mode / Hierarchical Networking

  • The NSE at the same site supports both accessing the NSG gateway and directly interconnecting with NSEs at other sites through overlay tunnels.
  • As the physical regional center, the Office site is directly connected to each Branch site through an Internet overlay. At the same time, Branch-site uplink traffic is aggregated and connected to the NSG gateway, and interconnected with HQ/IDC through the Nova backbone network.
  • Device: NSE, single/dual device
  • License:
    • Backbone dedicated-line / Internet license
    • HS dedicated-line / Internet license
  • Access: supports multiple WAN links (dedicated line, Internet, LTE/5G)
  • Port: backbone port
  • Applicable scenarios: retail stores, multi-level subordinate branches, many sites with systematic hierarchical distribution

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Hybrid Networking Mode / Specified Path

  • The NSE at the same site supports both accessing the NSG gateway and directly interconnecting with NSEs at other sites through overlay tunnels.
  • While the HQ/IDC site serves as the backbone interconnection between Hub and Spoke through the Nova backbone, it can also establish HS interconnection through the Internet to provide an escape channel and carry some low-priority business traffic.
  • Device: NSE, single/dual device
  • License:
    • Nova dedicated-line license / Nova Internet license
    • HS dedicated-line license / HS Internet license
  • Access: supports multiple WAN links (dedicated line, Internet, LTE/5G)
  • Port: backbone port
  • Applicable scenarios: providing an escape channel outside the backbone network, or optimizing costs, with HS mode carrying low-priority business traffic

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Intelligent Access Mode

  • In addition to powerful networking functions, SD-WAN products also provide automated unified monitoring. Nanling Technology's in-house SD-WAN is particularly outstanding in monitoring capabilities.
  • Customers may not need the inter-site networking function when they first start using SD-WAN products. However, leveraging the inherently powerful monitoring capabilities of Nanling Technology's in-house SD-WAN, we can still package and provide customers with an "intelligent Internet link management service" that integrates site Internet provisioning with the in-house SD-WAN product, using the SD-WAN device as the site gateway to access the Internet.
  • When customers need networking services, they only need to add the SD-WAN networking license for the site to quickly activate the networking function.

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Directional Acceleration Mode

  • Use Nanling Technology's in-house SD-WAN platform to provide customers with accelerated overseas Internet access services.
  • Customers can use the overseas Internet acceleration service alone or together with networking services; inter-site traffic and directional acceleration traffic are logically isolated and do not affect each other.
  • Multiple shared sites of a customer can share overseas acceleration traffic; more than one acceleration direction can be selected at the same time, for example, both the Hong Kong direction and the Frankfurt direction.

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