Premium Tier and Verified Peering Providers enable Cloud WAN

Recently at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced our latest Cross-Cloud Network innovation: Cloud WAN, a fully managed, reliable, and secure solution to transform enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures. Today, we continue our series of deep dives into the technologies powering Cloud WAN, namely Premium Tier networking and the Verified Peering Provider program. 

The ever-changing enterprise network

The evolution of enterprise WANs is marked by a significant shift from primarily connecting branches and headquarters to managing a growing volume of traffic directed towards the internet, cloud-based services, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. In this transformed landscape, achieving consistent end-to-end reliability has become a paramount concern for organizations.

However, ensuring end-to-end reliability with traditional WAN architectures can often be costly and complex. The integration of solutions from multiple vendors can escalate both expenses and operational intricacy. Furthermore, the common practice of overprovisioning network resources to guarantee reliability adds a significant financial ...