Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN High Availability Configuration Guide, Releases 26.x and Later

Feature history: resilient data plane

Updated: October 14, 2026

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Development of the resilient data plane feature, release by release.


Feature name	Release information	Description
Resilient data plane for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN	Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 26.2.1 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 26.2.1	Provides IKEv2/IPsec tunnels and per-VRF BGP routing that operate independently of the Cisco SD-WAN Control Components during an extended Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN outage.

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