Geographically distributed organizations often have smaller regional datacenters colocated with users, manufacturing, and other business operations presenting both configuration and operations challenges. The single-click capability to create Regional Branch Gateways simplifies the adoption of this use case by automatically creating VPN topologies and instantiating Hub (Policy Transit, LQM Server, etc ) & Branch (App visibility, path selection, etc) services to simplify Day 1 and Day 2 operations for all traffic types and vectors.

Prisma SD-WAN offers two types of site configurations — branch sites and data center sites. There may be situations where the services provided by a given location do not fit cleanly into either of these configurations. To maximize the flexibility of the system, Prisma SD-WAN offers a new hybrid site type — Branch Gateway.

The Branch Gateway provides the policy transit and LQM server capabilities of a data center site along with the visibility and path selection of a branch site. You can enable the branch gateway functionality on an existing branch site in the control mode using a site level configuration setting. Upon enabling the Branch Gateway mode, VPN tunnels will automatically form to each branch site in the domain.