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Configure Azure Virtual WAN

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From the course: Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Cert Prep: 4 Configure and Manage Virtual Networking

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Configure Azure Virtual WAN

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The last topic in this lesson is Azure Virtual WAN. It is an internet work of on-prem sites and Azure VNets. You can see here in the picture there are two virtual WAN hubs that are defined for this large organization, and they can be used to connect VNets in Azure. So the virtual WAN hub becomes a hub and your VNet can be spokes, and then notice also can easily connect up headquarters, on-prem sites, branch offices using ExpressRoute or site -o-site VPNs, even point-to-site VPNs for users who are accessing the resources from their own computer. So a virtual WAN is for large organizations that have, you know, many VNets deployed perhaps globally in Azure and they need to hook up at many branch sites. It can simplify the management of this. Routing across a virtual WAN hubis automatic and it uses the Azure backbone. So once you hook up your branch offices to the WAN hub, then your traffic is inside of Azure and any connections to other kinds of resources like on VNets or even another…

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