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Overall WAN Architecture

Building Your Next-Generation WAN

Read about the NGWAN and how it can benefit your organization.

Building Your Next-Generation WAN

The Next-Generation WAN (NGWAN) for enterprises is an end-to-end routing architecture developed for large enterprise and public sector routed WAN deployments.

NGWAN provides several benefits, including increased scalability, improved security, and a seamless network to provide the best Borderless Network experience to end users.

The NGWAN modular and scalable design consists of multiple network modules:

  • Regional WAN
  • Metro
  • WAN Core
  • Enterprise Edge

The NGWAN can provide your organization with a foundation to deliver key Cisco Borderless Network Services. Some of these include video and Medianet, Application Visibility and Control, TrustSec, and Cloud Connectors, combined with end-to-end management using Cisco Prime Management Suites.

Launch the Architecture Overview

Regional WAN (RWAN) Resources

RWAN Overview and Deployment

  • RWAN At-A-Glance (PDF - 620 KB)

    (May 2012) - Provides an overview of the RWAN architecture and branch types

  • RWAN Deployment Guide (PDF - 1.51 MB)

    (Oct 2011) - A guide for RWAN deployment within the NGWAN architecture

  • Best Practice Guide (PDF - 355 KB)

    (July 2012) - Builds upon the RWAN Deployment Guide and offers best practice guidelines for configuring some of the features used in NGWAN, including combinations of Performance Routing (PfR) Target Discovery, Application Visibility and Control (AVC), and Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

  • IPv6 Migration Deployment Guide (PDF - 355 KB)

    (Sept 2011) � Guidance for the transition to IPv6 in order to establish an Internet presence in IPv6

Network Operations and Management

Security

Rich Media Services

  • Video Deployment Guide (PDF - 1.65 MB)

    (Oct 2011) - Video support is implemented in the standard and high-end branches

NGWAN and RWAN Deployment at the Enterprise Edge