> ## Documentation Index
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# Palo Alto Networks Prisma with Megaport Virtual Edge

> This help topic describes Palo Alto Networks with Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) functionality.

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Palo Alto Networks offers a range of solutions for MVE, providing both advanced network flexibility and scalability, and robust security options. Depending on your needs, you can deploy a Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewall for extra security to your network at the edge or Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN for streamlined network management and SD-WAN functionalities.

## Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN is the next-generation SD-WAN solution that is autonomous, application-defined, and cloud-delivered. Prisma SD-WAN helps you secure and connect your branch offices and data centers without increasing cost and complexity.

Prisma SD-WAN provides complete end-to-end visibility into performance and remediation to provide application resiliency. With Prisma SD-WAN, businesses can enable cloud-delivered infrastructure for the network, security, operations, and multicloud by seamlessly deploying third-party entities, such as MVE, at speed and scale without added resources.

In the Megaport Portal you create and manage the MVE and Virtual Cross Connects (VXCs) to cloud on-ramps and other services in the Megaport software-defined network. You host virtual instances of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN on the MVE, managed within Palo Alto Networks centralized [Strata Cloud Manager console](https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/strata-cloud-manager).

The following diagram shows an example network implementation of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN features over the Megaport network.

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