Operating the connected Edge

By itself, these application-oriented Edge gateways are sufficient and necessary for creating and maintaining secure tunnels between the application and their dependent services. You can think of them as point-to-point network connections that are agnostic to any sense or control over how packets between the application and its services are routed or load-balanced across the underlying network infrastructure.

However, to maintain a truly robust enterprise network, the operations staff must worry about routing and load-balancing across the entirety of their enterprise infrastructure. For example, if a physical network connection between a factory and the data center should fail, keeping that factory up and running becomes the responsibility of the operations team. They may have provisioned a secondary network interconnect between that factory and the data center that goes through a different network provider. Network traffic that was flowing over one...