You are planning a large SD-WAN deployment with approximately 1000 spokes and want to allow...

For a large-scale SD-WAN deployment (such as 1000 spokes) where ADVPN shortcut routing is required and some remote sites connect via FortiSASE, the recommended overlay routing configuration is BGP running on loopback interfaces, combined with dynamic BGP for ADVPN shortcut routing. This design leverages the scalability and resilience of BGP, allowing dynamic discovery and route exchange necessary for shortcut tunnels between spokes in ADVPN environments. Using loopback interfaces for BGP peering is considered best practice because it decouples routing protocol stability from physical link status, ensuring that if a physical underlay interface fails, the BGP session remains up as long as there’s an alternate path. With dynamic BGP, each spoke can efficiently learn the routes to other spokes and dynamically establish shortcuts, which is critical at this scale. This method also integrates smoothly with FortiSASE for remote connectivity to the SD-WAN hub, providing flexibility and centralized management.References: A deployment should preserve the distinction between the physical or logical WAN underlay, the IPsec overlay and the SD-WAN zone that groups forwarding members. These layers can have different routing and security-policy requirements. The configured architecture must also allow the required traffic paths and failover behavior rather than assuming every available interface is interchangeable.