How Orange Connects Its Global Offices Using EDIA, Hybrid WAN, and EVPN
Preface: Orange, a global telecoms company, uses EDIA (Ethernet Dedicated Internet Access) at its HQs in London , Berlin and Paris to ensure each site has guaranteed, high-speed and low-latency internet for critical business apps like Office 365, cloud collaboration tools and secure remote access. These EDIA circuits provide dedicated bandwidth with SLA-backed performance so they’re perfect for HQs that can’t afford downtime or performance degradation. For its branch offices and regional sites across Europe, Orange has a Hybrid WAN architecture where MPLS lines (for latency-sensitive traffic like VoIP and internal systems) and broadband/EDIA connections (for general internet traffic) are combined through an SD-WAN platform , so traffic is intelligently routed and fails over seamlessly during outages. Orange also connects its data centers in Paris and Berlin with EVPN-VXLAN links over its MPLS backbone , so there’s Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity between virtualized environm...