Deployed as an overlay management and orchestration platform, the BeyondEdge SD-LAN solution met the client’s cloud management requirement with zero change to the existing LAN switch hardware. Additionally, the onboarding process was totally hitless to LAN traffic. To support WIFI 6 AP and 5G radio nodes bandwidth needs, high performance, whitebox switches were proposed at select locations in the access layer to deliver multi-gigabit speeds required by these new access devices.