A branch office has deployed an SD-WAN solution that performs deep-packet inspection to recognize individual applications such as VoIP, Office 365, or peer-to-peer traffic. The device can then automatically prioritize latency-sensitive voice traffic, route cloud-SaaS traffic over the best-performing link, or block unauthorized file-sharing flows based on predefined policies. Which SD-WAN capability best describes this behavior?
The described behavior is application aware networking (often called application-aware routing). The SD-WAN appliance inspects traffic up to Layer 7 to identify the application generating each flow, then applies policies-such as path selection, prioritization, throttling, or blocking-tailored to that application's requirements. Zero-touch provisioning automates initial device onboarding, transport agnostic refers to supporting any underlying WAN medium, and multitenancy refers to isolating different customer or departmental networks on shared infrastructure. None of those terms involve recognizing applications and acting on that information, so they are incorrect choices.
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