Extending EdgeConnect SD-WAN into Microsoft Azure
- Client
- Enterprise SD-WAN customers with workloads in Azure (names withheld)
- Year
- 2024–26
- Type
- Network
The brief
Branches and headquarters needed fast, resilient paths to applications hosted in Microsoft Azure, as part of the same SD-WAN fabric.
What I built
- EdgeConnect virtual appliances deployed in Microsoft Azure
- IPSec tunnels from Azure to HQ and branch sites
- A proof of concept, which I led, proving SD-WAN fabric tunnels over a private Azure path
Stack
- HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
- Microsoft Azure
- IPSec