In the digital workplace environment, Office 365 has become the core platform for many enterprises’ daily operations. With the increasing reliance on cloud office tools, the demand for performance and efficiency in Office 365 has also escalated. Accelerating Office 365 has become a key initiative for enterprises to enhance productivity, foster team collaboration, and boost competitiveness. This article will introduce how SD-WAN enhances Office 365 network efficiency.

Local Breakout for Office 365 Acceleration

SD-WAN technology addresses the optimization challenge of the “last mile” network connection for users by decomposing and accelerating local traffic. It combines Microsoft’s WAN API with Office 365’s connectivity principles to identify and optimize trusted Office 365 traffic. SD-WAN, integrated with built-in stateful firewalls, accelerates local, latency-sensitive Office 365 and Microsoft Teams traffic through local internet service providers. Additionally, TLS encryption ensures data security between remote sites and the Office 365 cloud, while SD-WAN can route untrusted and other types of traffic to data centers.

Application Awareness

Different applications have different network requirements. SD-WAN prioritizes high-quality experiences for key Office 365 applications based on their specific demands. It can dynamically switch links to improve service experiences and achieve intelligent acceleration for critical applications through transmission optimization, application optimization, and other technologies, thereby creating an application-aware network.

Cloud Acceleration for Office 365

Office 365 relies on public cloud services, but demands low latency for data synchronization and real-time sessions. SD-WAN optimizes links to ensure low-latency operation of Office 365 business. Compared to traditional WAN acceleration techniques, SD-WAN reduces overall latency by simplifying high-speed caching, compression, and link optimization, thereby reducing total bandwidth and latency. SD-WAN tools monitor each link to determine the fastest path at any given time, helping to reduce overall latency and jitter.

SD-WAN technology provides a seamless user experience for Office 365 connections, enabling enterprises to dynamically connect to branches and data centers worldwide. With the accelerated pace of enterprise digital transformation, SD-WAN has become a cost-effective solution as a critical path to digitalization.

Building High-Speed Channels in the Cloud with SD-WAN

SD-WAN identifies real-time network traffic and selects packet retransmission and paths to ensure application reliability and quality. It integrates all necessary functions and components, ensuring application reliability and quality while reducing bandwidth demand through path measurement, selection, and security protection. Through centralized management and visualized software, it achieves unified configuration and arrangement of all these functions.

In conclusion, SD-WAN significantly enhances Office 365 network efficiency. If you are interested in this technology, feel free to consult Ogcloud anytime!