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Select gateway scale units

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Select gateway scale units

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- [Instructor] You'll want to be familiar with selecting gateway scale units for virtual WAN and calculating your scale unit needs for the exam. So what are scale units? Well scale units determine the overall throughput capacity of your virtual hubs, VPN and express route gateways. Aggregate throughput of a single scale unit equates to a specific throughput limit, that's 500 megabits per second for VPN, it's two gigabits per second for express route. And when you set multiple scale units, Azure automatically provisions redundant virtual gateway instances under the hood. So combined branch traffic would be an important consideration. You want to estimate the total expected traffic flowing from all your branch sites connected to your Azure virtual WAN hub. For example, if 30 branches will generate an average of 20 megabits per second of traffic each, you'd need an aggregate capacity of at least 600 megabits per second. That translates to at least two scale units in the VPN context. So…

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