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Features and benefits
Predictable application experience
Increase user productivity by optimizing cloud and on-premises application performance with real-time analytics, visibility, and control.
Right security, right place
Protect users, devices, and applications by deploying embedded or cloud security faster with the best threat intelligence.
Simplicity at enterprise scale
Centralize cloud management to make it easy to deploy SD-WAN and security while maintaining policy across thousands of sites.
Maximum choice and control
Maintain flexibility with a cloud-first architecture to connect any user, to any application, across any cloud.
How the Cisco SD-WAN architecture works
Cisco SD-WAN is a secure, cloud scale architecture that is open, programmable and scalable. Managed through the Cisco vManage console you can quickly establish an SD-WAN overlay fabric to connect data centers, branches, campuses, and colocation facilities to improve network speed, security, and efficiency.
Cisco vManage
Automation. Network insights. Analytics.
Any deployment
Flexible WAN management
On-premises- Cloud
- Multitenant
Any service
Choose from a full suite of services.
Branch Security
Cloud Security
Application Quality of Experience
Voice and
Collaboration
Cloud
OnRamp
Any transport
Deploy your WAN over any type
of connection.
Satellite- Internet
- MPLS
- 5G/LTE
Any location
Physical or virtual platforms for:
Branch
Colocation
Cloud
Deploy SD-WAN on your platform of choice
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Physical
Deploy high-performance branch and campus platforms with integrated network services.
Virtual
Launch virtualized network services on platforms designed for virtualization.
Cloud
Connect to any cloud and optimize SaaS applications.
Security
Protect your WAN with flexible security.
Deploy SD-WAN your way with Cisco DNA software
Simple, flexible software subscription suites help you achieve the latest software-defined WAN innovations and provide centralized management with security, application-aware policies, segmentation, and optimization for cloud connectivity.
SD-WAN use cases
See how SD-WAN delivers applications to users and devices across any cloud, without reducing visibility, security, or performance.
Secure automated WAN
Leave traditional, complex WANs behind. Move to agile, controller-based WANs with robust security features.
Application-performance optimization
Meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and maintain strong performance, even if network problems occur.
Secure direct Internet access (DIA)
Connect branch offices to Internet and cloud applications while providing protection against attacks.
Branch multicloud access
Achieve your move to the cloud with Cloud OnRamp for SaaS, which is integrated into Cisco SD-WAN.
Regional-hub multicloud access
Tie together regional sites with multicloud applications, using VNFs that can be rapidly provisioned on colocation platforms.
See what customers have to say
"With the help of Cisco, we are more confident in making use of such technologies as mobile payments, biological recognition, intelligence applications, and big data, building retail big data …"
- Wang Mengzhe, IT Director of Xingbianli
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"With Cisco SD-WAN, we've reduced our MPLS spending by 25 percent while increasing bandwidth by 3,075 percent."
- Luis Castillo, Global Network Team Manager, National Instrument
"The backbone of every business is its enterprise network, and when that backbone is strong, the sky's the limit."
- Mark Bennett, Head of Global Fixed Connectivity Products, Vodafone
"Customers seeing 55%-70% in OPEX cost reduction and 2000% in bandwidth increase in migrating from legacy MPLS to Cisco SD-WAN."
- Alexsandro Reimann, Manager of Network Services, Nap-IT Global Network Solutions
"With Cisco SD-WAN, it was possible to significantly reduce costs, improve performance in the applications, and get a more agile network with the centralized-policy deployment capability throughout our network in Colombia. The implementation of a hybrid network of MPLS and broadband links using Cisco ISR, ASR, and vEdge platforms, has ensured our customers have a better experience with voice services and access applications. In addition, it has allowed us to be more prepared in our organization to support digital transformation plans, greater security, flexible networks, and access to public clouds."
Luis Plata, Networking Services Director, BBVA Colombia
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Recommended resources
Additional resources
At-a-Glances
- 2020 Global Networking Trends Report
- Cisco SD-WAN (PDF - 220 KB)
- Cisco HyperFlex Edge with SD-WAN (PDF - 351 KB)
Data sheet
- Cisco vEdge (PDF - 487 KB)
E-books
FAQs
- Cisco SD-WAN (PDF - 245 KB)
Infographics
Overviews
Technical guides
- SD-WAN Deployment
- SD-WAN Design (PDF - 1.04 MB)
Videos
- (Video - 1:31)
- (Video - 3:25 min)
Webinars
White papers
- IDC: SD-WAN momentum builds as early adopters experience tangible benefits
- ACG White Paper: Time Is Now for Service Provider SD-WAN
- IDC: Business Value of Cisco SD-WAN Solutions: Studying the Results of Deployed Organizations
- Cisco Software-Defined WAN for Secure Networks White Paper (PDF - 1.38 MB)
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