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Service Provider Interconnect with Palo Alto Networks

Service Provider (SP) Interconnect, SSE capabilities and Benefits within Evolution Platform

SP Interconnect Principles​

  • Delivers on-net connectivity: customers’ networks to connect to Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE and back to the Orange internet backbone
  • Available for:
    • Mobile Users
    • Branch sites
    • Datacenter sites
  • Prisma Access solution hosted on Google Cloud Platform regions in different zones for redundancy
  • SPI based on redounded GCP Partner Interconnect available at Equinix POPs

SP Interconnect High Level Design​

Network architecture diagram showing a central cloud labeled 'Orange Tier-1 Internet Backbone' with multiple Points of Presence (PoP) surrounding it. On the left, icons represent user groups: Branch/Retail, Mobile Users, and Data Center. Lines connect these groups to the cloud, indicating data flow. Additional labels include 'Local ISP' and 'SP Public/Private Peering.' At the bottom, cloud service icons are labeled 'SaaS,' 'Public Cloud,' and 'Internet.' On the right, boxes labeled 'GCP Region' and 'Prisma Access' indicate geographical cloud services and security integration.

SP Interconnect High Level Design

SSE Capabilities with SPI​

  • Security Processing (URL Filtering, DNS, TP, WF, CASB, IoT) with Google/AWS Compute
  • SSE using Orange backbone for User/Branch Traffic (Ingress)
  • SSE using Orange backbone for Packet Routing to Internet, SaaS or Private Apps (Egress) SSE Attach with Orange SD-WAN & MPLS Network
  • SSE with Orange Regional scale & Orange backbone PoPs Buildout
  • SSE powered by Orange backbone SLAs
  • SSE powered by Orange backbone Redundancy & High Availability
  • SSE with Orange Visibility & Insights in ADEM

Clear Customer benefits​

Key benefit:

  • Orange secures the traffic to Prisma Access and redirects flow to the destination after security processing, meaning that traffic relays completely on end-to-end in Orange backbone, and all SLAs, visibility and reactivity are fully managed, monitored and guarantied by Orange Business

Also, Prisma Access augmented experience with Orange network because:

  • Better ADEM score with Orange network
  • Better network performance with Orange network
  • More steady network metrics with Orange network
  • Better Application Performance Metrics with Orange network