Deploy Cloud-Based Applications with Confidence on Cisco SD-WAN

Cisco SD-WAN simplifies IT operations with automated provisioning, unified policies and streamlined management, making changes, updates and resolutions in record time. You gain advanced network functionality, reliability and security.

Cisco provides a flexible architecture to extend SD-WAN to any environment. Whether you deploy your product in the cloud or on-premises, Cisco SD-WAN automatically discovers, authenticates and provisions both new and existing devices.

After connecting to Cisco SD-WAN, each network device can find the best path to the applications your users need. Cisco SD-WAN is able to use any transport method (satellite, broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE) from any location (core, edge, cloud) for any network service (security, application quality of experience, voice).

Through the overlay management protocol (OMP), Cisco SD-WAN supports both common and advanced routing protocols that are necessary for managing networks across the WAN and cloud. Cisco SD-WAN provides this flexibility in both full and partial mesh encrypted deliveries, allowing for the utmost customization based on your needs.

Businesses are using not just one cloud data centre in their IT operations, but several clouds across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Connecting these workloads and applications together with the WAN and remote users is a challenge.

To help reduce this complexity, Cisco SD-WAN provides the ability to connect any WAN location to multiple cloud platforms, increasing connection speeds and enhancing connection reliability. Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp creates a WAN extension into your IaaS workloads, provides dynamic path selection for optimal SaaS application performance and gives you the ability to consolidate branch office egress points into regional colocation facilities.

Monitoring underlay performance via the Cisco SD-WAN dashboard, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp automatically selects the fastest, most reliable path to the cloud infrastructure, no matter where your end users are located. In the event of network service interruptions beyond your control, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp will adjust paths as necessary, helping ensure continuous uptime and predictable performance.

Transitioning from a WAN to an SD-WAN should be simple – you shouldn’t have to compromise capabilities for convenience. Cisco SD-WAN, with its cloud controller architecture and overlay, supports many unified communications technologies and capabilities in its console, including centralized call and messaging control; Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) integration; centralized configuration and administration; analogue, voice and fax support; Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Webex® Calling. It includes outage survivability and emergency functionality such as 911 calling.

Multicast routing support allows your business to more efficiently manage many critical application streams. Whether you are managing video distribution, remote collaboration, a periodic push or interactive simulation, policies and quality of service (QoS) are made simple.

Cisco can deploy a complete security solution, either on-premises or with Cisco Umbrella cloud security. Enabling DIA with SD-WAN provides more efficient SaaS and internet connectivity but has security blind spots.

Cisco’s on-premises and cloud security provides strong protection against web-based attacks and delivers a complete set of features such as enterprise firewalls, cloud access security broker, secure web gateways, malware protection, intrusion prevention system, URL filtering and DNS-layer protection. Plus, you can implement segmentation across the entire network to isolate and protect critical assets. By choosing Cisco SD-WAN, you gain the ability to automate the right security in the right place, all from a single dashboard.

After a simple software upgrade, you can transform your purpose-built Cisco SD-WAN routers into advanced, multilayered security devices. Whether you deploy your SD-WAN security on-premises or in the cloud, Cisco SD-WAN uses real-time threat intelligence from Cisco Talos®, one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world, made up of world-class researchers, analysts and engineers.

After a few simple clicks in the dashboard, Cisco SD-WAN can harden your entire network from core to edge and cloud with security capabilities such as next-generation firewall (NGFW), Cisco Umbrella secure internet gateway and advanced malware protection (AMP).

At the edge: Edge locations are at the forefront of digital transformation. These locations vary widely, from branch offices to restaurants and sports stadiums. They’re united in requiring reliable security, connectivity and application storage for IoT.

Deploy Cisco SD-WAN on Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms, vEdge 100 and 1000 routers or 1100 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) with Viptela OS, or on Cisco 1000 or 4000 Series ISRs with Cisco IOS® XE.

Cisco SD-WAN can also be deployed on SDBranch solutions such as the Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) and Cisco UCS® E-Series platforms using network functions virtualization (NFV).

In addition, you can extend Cisco SD-WAN into adverse conditions such as industrial facilities, vehicles and factories with the Cisco 1101 Industrial ISR (IR 1101) for mission-critical use cases. The IR 1101 offers stronger industrial router security and simplified management with SD-WAN architecture, edge compute and Cisco IOS XE.

At the core: Core locations are the backbone of any corporate WAN and include data centres and campuses. These locations have heavy traffic and require powerful throughput capabilities, resilient connectivity and built-in security.

Deploy Cisco SD-WAN at the core with the Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms, vEdge 2000 or 5000 routers with Viptela OS or the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers with Cisco IOS XE to connect your core to the SD-WAN fabric.

In the cloud: Cisco SD-WAN extends control and connectivity to cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Deploy Cisco SD-WAN in cloud environments through the Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software or the Cloud Services Router 1000V Series.