The SD-WAN Controller provides physical or virtual device management for all SD-WAN Edges associated with the controller. This includes, but is not limited to, configuration and activation, IP address management, and pushing down policies onto SD-WAN Edges.

The SD-WAN controller maintains connections to all SD-WAN Edges to identify the operational state of SD-WAN tunnels across different WANs and retrieve QoS performance metrics for each SD-WAN tunnel. These metrics are used by the Service Orchestrator. 

The MSP or CSP operates and maintains the SD-WAN Controller as part an SD-WAN managed service. In the MEF LSO RA, the SD-WAN Controller communicates northbound with its Service Orchestrator via the Presto interface and southbound, via the LSO Adagio interface, to SD-WAN Edges it controls. Note that some SD-WAN implementations may combine the SD-WAN Controller and Service Orchestrator.




Status

PUBLISHED


Study Requirement

Not required as MEF-SDCP Exam Study Reference

Source(s) and Reference(s)
MEF 70.1 (not released)
Related and Further Reading

 

Project Lead

Kirby Russell

Reviewers/Conttributors

MEF-SMEs

Basil Najem

Sholy Augustine

Ryan Hoffman

MEF Staff

Daniel Bar-Lev

1 Comment

  1. Kirby Russell

    This is a MEF 70.1 content item which needs a diagram.