The rise of cloud-based applications and IoT is impacting existing wide area networks across all industries. The need to increase bandwidth, optimize cloud connectivity, and improve security posture is challenging with traditional WAN architectures. Furthermore, the disparate nature of WAN infrastructure, makes it hard to gain comprehensive visibility of applications and infrastructure, which hinders failure resolution and effective forecasting of resources.
Gartner estimates that “by 2020, more than 50 percent of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on SD-WAN versus traditional routers.”
Cisco brings enterprise-grade Software-Defined WAN (Cisco SD-WAN) technology to address the problems of modern enterprise applications of today and tomorrow.
Cisco SD-WAN is a cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture that enables digital and cloud transformation at enterprises. It significantly drops WAN costs, reduces the time to deploy services, build application resiliency and provides a robust security architecture for hybrid networks. The accompanying vAnalytics capability delivers visibility and insights necessary for IT to isolate and resolve issues promptly; and delivers intelligent data analysis for planning and what-if scenarios.
Why Software-Defined WAN?
Cisco has one of the most widely deployed enterprise-grade SD-WAN solution with:
- Large deployments in retail, healthcare, financial services, energy and more• Widely deployed across Fortune 2000 enterprises
- Thousands of production sites in every major industry
- vAnalytics benchmarking data across hundreds of customers
- Compliant with PCI, HIPAA and other industry standardsCloud managed SD-WAN
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Reduce time to capability |
Quickly deploy new branches with any transport (LTE/Broadband/MPLS/VSAT) Deploy new services or implement policy with centralized management Simplify operation workflows with built-inautomation |
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Zero outages for any application |
Multiple hybrid links with active-active capability • Real-time traffic steering around upstream network issues Customizable SLA-based policies per application |
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Cloud- optimized network |
WAN extended seamlessly to AWS and Azure Optimized SaaS performance for Office 365,Salesforce, and more Unified enterprise WAN policy for cloud and on-premises workloads |
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Secure, hardened network |
Comprehensive security over hybrid links Reduced attack surface with segmentation for IoT,partner networks, cloud, guest wireless On-demand insertion of Umbrella, Zscaler, Palo Alto, and other network services |