In today’s digital economy, it has become increasingly critical for SD-WAN monitoring solutions to ensure predictable application performance and reliability along with secure, uninterrupted connectivity at all locations. To deliver advanced security, optimize user experience and enable real-time business decisions, SD-WANs must be “application-aware”. Using sophisticated deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to identify an application, its attribute or its application family provides visibility into application and network performance. This makes SD-WAN management solutions more intelligent. Visibility on the application level enables closer control and optimization of the SD-WAN traffic flow, which also leads to increased network flexibility. With DPI-powered traffic visibility and shaping, the SD-WAN bandwidth can be monitored and increased for relevant packets.