What the Global Edge Network is

The Global Edge Network consists of Access Tiers and Filtering Tiers hosted and managed by SonicWall CSE for your organization. We use Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as our edge infrastructure providers, enabling us to use one of their 50+ global regions to provide fast and reliable connections to your users around the world.

Why you use the Global Edge Network

The Global Edge Network is the deployment model in which SonicWall hosts and operates the policy-enforcement tiers on your behalf, rather than requiring you to deploy and maintain them yourself. Because SonicWall manages these components, your organization avoids the upgrade and operational overhead of running its own edge infrastructure while still keeping corporate resources unexposed to the internet.

How it works

1. Your organization deploys a Connector on a server inside the private network where corporate resources are hosted.
2. The Connector dials out to the internet and establishes secure tunnels to the SonicWall-managed Access Tiers on the Global Edge Network.
3. When a user connects, an Access Tier on the nearest region verifies identity, applies access policies, and proxies permitted traffic through the tunnel to the internal service.

When to use this: Choose the Global Edge Network when you want SonicWall to host and manage the Access Tiers. If you need to run the Access Tiers within your own environment, use the Self-hosted Private Edge model instead.

Tip: For a comparison of the Global Edge and Self-hosted Private Edge deployment models, see Edge Deployment Models.

Expected Bandwidth for Private Access

• 1 gbps, given the nodes within a Global Edge Access Tier are provisioned with a 16 Gig link and 2 vCPU quota per Access Tier; this is an estimate, and performance ultimately depends on network conditions and routing.

Sections

• Architecture
• IP Ranges
• Points of Presence (PoP)
• Managing PoPs