Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Troubleshooting Guide

Speed test

Updated: September 28, 2026

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Lists the feature history for speed test functionality in Cisco SD-WAN.

This reference provides the feature history for speed test functionality, which enables speed testing between two edge devices or between a local edge device to a remote iperf3 server.

Table 1. Feature history
Feature Name	Release Information	Description
Speed Test	Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.3.1a	This feature enables you to carry out speed testing between two edge devices or between a local edge device to a remote iperf3 server.
Speed Test Enhancement	Cisco vManage Release 20.10.1 Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.10.1a	This feature allows you to specify your own or preferred iperf3 server for Internet speed test.
Cisco SD-WAN site-to-site speed test with private address	Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 26.1.x	This feature introduces the use of private IP addresses (10.1.x.x) for site-to-site speedtests instead of 11.1.x.x. A new CLI command is provided to disable 11.1.x.x.

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