Question

A retail company runs Salesforce as its primary CRM SaaS application across 40 branch sites connected by Cisco SD-WAN. Users at branches complain of high latency when their Salesforce traffic is backhauled to a central data center before reaching the internet. The network architect wants to improve the SaaS experience while maintaining application-aware path selection. Which approach best addresses this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Configure Direct Internet Access (DIA) with Cloud OnRamp for SaaS at each branch, using application probes to select the best-performing path to Salesforce

Answer

Provision a dedicated private circuit such as AWS Direct Connect from each branch directly to Salesforce

Answer

Continue backhauling all traffic to the data center but increase the central internet circuit bandwidth

Answer

Deploy an IPsec VPN tunnel from every branch to the Salesforce public IP endpoints for encrypted transport