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Cisco SD-WAN Solution Overview

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Agenda

❖ Challenges with Traditional WAN

❖ What is SD-WAN, & Why it’s the
future
❖ Beneficiary of SD-WAN
❖ SD-WAN Architecture
❖ Top Line Components
❖ Strength of Spectrum

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The Traditional WAN

The traditional WAN (wide-area network) function was to connect users at the branch
or campus to applications hosted on servers in the data center. Typically, dedicated
MPLS circuits were used to help ensure security and reliable connectivity.

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❖ Unpredictable application performance

❖ Application centric changes is manual,

No automation is supported.
❖ Distributed control plane

❖ Remote site management, change control and

network maintenance.
❖ Lengthy installation times

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What is SD-WAN?
SD-WAN is a software-defined approach to
managing the WAN. It is a virtual WAN
architecture that allows enterprises to
leverage any combination of transport
services—including MPLS, LTE and broadband
internet services.

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Benefits of SD-WAN

Why SD-WAN?
The SD-WAN represents an evolution of networking from an older, hardware-based model to a
secure, software-based, virtual IP fabric. It gives users the ability to manage connectivity across
their WAN from a single dashboard with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency.

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Benefits of SD-WAN

Better & Predictable application experience

Using the advanced Analytics engine accessed through the manage console, you can quickly
provide stakeholders with the visibility necessary to isolate issues in the WAN. Additional
components of analytics include:

● End-to-end visibility into applications and infrastructure across the entire SD-WAN fabric
● Real-time information for failure correlation, cross-customer benchmarking, and application
performance scores
● Assistance planning application provisioning, bandwidth increases, and branch expansions
● Intelligent recommendations based on existing policies, templates, and preferences
● Application quality of service (QoS) categorization and policy changes for predictable
performance

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Benefits of SD-WAN

Simplified management

● A single, centralized, cloud-delivered

management dashboard for configuration
and management of WAN, cloud, and
security
● Template-based, zero-touch
provisioning for all locations: branch,
campus, and cloud
● Detailed reporting of application and WAN performance for business analytics and bandwidth
forecasting

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Benefits of SD-WAN

More security

● Application-aware policies with end-to-end segmentation and real-time access control

● Integrated threat protection enforced at the right place
● Secure traffic across broadband Internet and into the cloud
● Distribute security to the branch and remote endpoints with Next Gen Firewall

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Benefits of SD-WAN

Optimized cloud connectivity

● Seamless extension of the WAN to multiple public

clouds
● Real-time optimized performance for Microsoft
Office 365, Salesforce, and other major SaaS
applications
● Optimized workflows for cloud platforms such as
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure

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SD-WAN Architecture

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SD-WAN Architecture

With five simple steps, the Cisco SD-WAN virtual IP fabric transforms a complex legacy
network into an easy-to-manage, scalable network:

❖ Step-1: Separate transport from the service side of the network.

❖ Step-02: Centralize Routing Intelligence and Enable Segmentation

❖ Step 3: Secure the Network and Links Automatically

❖ Step 4: Influence Reachability through Centralized Policy

❖ Step 5: Simplify Provisioning and Management

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❖ Step-1: Separate transport from the service side of the network.

Benefits:
● The network administrator can choose transport circuits
based on SLA and cost
● The routing system can assign attributes to transport
links for optimal routing, load balancing, and policy-
based routing

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❖ Step-02: Centralize Routing Intelligence and Enable Segmentation

Benefits:
● The centralized controller can use inexpensive or
commodity servers for control plane processing.
● Work like route reflector in BGP
● The network administrator can create multiple segments
without the need for complex signaling protocols. For
example, in the figure here. prefixes can be part of one
VPN, while all prefixes can be part of a different VPN.

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❖ Step 3: Secure the Network and Links Automatically

Benefits:
● The Cisco SD-WAN fabric identifies transport side links and automatically encrypts traffic between sites.
● The associated encryption keys are exchanged over a secure session with the centralized controller.
● Secure DTLS/TLS sessions with the controller are set up automatically using RSA and certificate infrastructure.
● The Cisco SD-WAN fabric itself authenticates all devices participating in the network, which is an important
step to secure the infrastructure.
● The fabric automatically exchanges encryption keys associated with the transport links, eliminating the hassle of
configuring thousands of pairwise keys.

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❖ Step 4: Influence Reachability through Centralized Policy

Benefits:
● Policy configured on a centralized controller
strongly influences how prefixes are advertised
among the routers.

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❖ Step 5: Simplify Provisioning and Management

Benefits:
● The Cisco SD-WAN SEN centralizes and significantly simplifies provisioning and management through
the vManage Network Management System (NMS).
● The vManage NMS provides an easy-to-use, graphical dashboard from which you can monitor, configure,
and maintain all Cisco vEdge devices and links in the overlay network.
● The network administrator provisions and manages the network as a whole, efficiently and easily, as
opposed to a piecemeal approach that deals with individual devices one at a time.
● The network administrator has improved network visibility (for example, viewing network-wide VPN
statistics) from a single point.

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SD-WAN Components

❖ Orchestration Plane: vBond

❖ Control Plane: vSmart

❖ Management Plane: vManage

❖ Data Plane: vEdge

❖ Analytics: vAnalytics

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SD-WAN Components

❖ SD-WAN Edge Platform Options

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❖ SD-WAN Controller Deployment Model

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❖ Controller Deployment - Options

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❖ Licensing

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Strength of Spectrum

❖ SD-WAN Solution Design Experience

❖ Implementation/Deployment

❖ Maintenance Experience

❖ OEM Certified Resources

❖ Working Experience in Reputed Organization

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