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APPLICATION NOTE - Branch Office Connectivity Guide
Table 3: Data Center Key Design Considerations
Requirements Description
Internet
connectivity
• The design must employ a minimum of two Internet links.
• The edge-connecting routers must provide redundancy as well as ensure service
accessibility.
• The active/active Internet connection requires two edge routers to provide resilient
Internet connectivity.
• A BGP feed is required from each of the providers to enable failover.
• A rate limiting of traffic to the firewall is needed so that a flood of traffic from the Internet
does not affect the network.
• A stateless inspection or packet filtering must be used.
Private WAN • Private circuits must be either point-to-point connections or connect over a provider-
provisioned MPLS network.
• All traffic that originates from the branch that is destined for the data center must be
encrypted.
• Private WAN is deployed off of the VPN firewalls.
Firewalls • Internet firewalls must host the network operations center (NOC).
• Firewalls must connect to the Internet and receive routing information from the Internet
edge routers.
• IPsec VPN firewalls provide the connectivity hub for all remote sites and they terminate
IPsec VPNs from the Internet as well as from private WANs.
• The IPsec firewalls must terminate VPN tunnels for all of the remote branches over the
private WAN.
• The following must be employed: redundant hardware, dynamic routing protocols (DRP),
and fully meshed links.
• The design must allow for a highly scalable VPN services infrastructure without being
dependent on the availability of Internet firewalls.
Shared services • The Internet firewalls must have a default route (obtained from the Internet edge routers)
into the shared services core.
• The connectivity to the firewalls must be in a mesh deployment.
• The routing on the shared services core must integrate with the firewalls.
High availability • The design must use a meshed solution to provide redundant paths on each redundant
device. Internet connectivity.
• The design must employ a minimum of two Internet links.
• The edge-connecting routers must provide redundancy as well as ensure service
accessibility.
• The active/active Internet connection requires two edge routers to provide resilient
Internet connectivity.
• A BGP feed is required from each of the providers to enable failover.
• A rate limiting of traffic to the firewall is needed so that a flood of traffic from the Internet
does not affect the network.
• A stateless inspection or packet filtering must be used.
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