Managing the performance of business-critical and latency-sensitive applications across multiple SD-WAN paths requires strict, real-time quality control. Network deterioration,even brief spikes in latency, jitter, or packet loss, can severely impact user experience and service continuity. Security administrators can now create custom path quality profiles for SD-WAN to define unique network quality requirements for applications, services, and groups.

Create a custom path quality profile on Strata Cloud Manager to establish maximum thresholds for key performance indicators: latency, jitter, and packet loss percentage. Security administrators specify the maximum limit for each parameter, above which the firewall considers the path unreliable. The firewall treats these criteria as OR conditions, meaning if the network quality exceeds any one of the defined thresholds (latency OR jitter OR packet loss), the firewall immediately selects the new best path. Any path that has latency, jitter, and packet loss metrics less than or equal to all three defined thresholds is considered qualified, and the firewall selects the final path based on the associated Traffic Distribution profile, ensuring consistent, high-quality network resources for your most demanding applications.