Patent ID: 11949568
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) edge device comprising:
configuration data configuring respective interfaces for a plurality of a wide area network (WAN) links to an SD-WAN service; and
an SD-WAN application executed by processing circuitry and configured to:
obtain a service level agreement (SLA) rule that matches an application, wherein the SLA rule specifies a metric and a preferred type of WAN link; and
based on a determination that no links of the plurality of WAN links satisfy the metric specified by the SLA rule and that the SLA rule specifies strict affinity, identify a first set of one or more WAN links, from the plurality of WAN links, having a link type that matches the preferred type of WAN link specified by the SLA rule and assign the application to a WAN link of the first set of one or more WAN links.