Feature history for Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Device with Cisco ACI integration
This table describes the developments of this feature, by release.
| Feature name |
Release information |
Description |
|---|---|---|
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Integration with Cisco ACI |
Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 16.12.1b |
The Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN and Cisco ACI integration functionality now supports predefined SLA cloud beds. It also supports dynamically generated mappings from a data prefix-list and includes a VPN list to an SLA class that is provided by Cisco ACI. |
Cisco ACI release 4.1(1) adds support for WAN SLA policies. This feature enables tenant administrators to apply preconfigured policies to specify the levels of packet loss, jitter, and latency for tenant traffic over the WAN. When a WAN SLA policy is applied to tenant traffic, the Cisco APIC sends the configured policies to a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller. The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, which is configured in Cisco ACI as an external device manager that provides Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN capabilities, chooses the best possible WAN link that meets the loss, jitter, and latency parameters specified in the SLA policy.
The WAN SLA policies are applied to tenant traffic though contracts.
As an example of where this feature can be useful, consider a deployment in which branches connect to a data center over a WAN using multiple transport technologies, such as MPLS, internet, and 4G. In such deployments, there can be multiple paths between the branches and data centers. This feature provides optimized path selection in these situations based on application groups and SLA.

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