Use Cases for SD-WAN Capabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall

SD-WAN Features of Cisco Secure Firewall

Updated: February 5, 2026

Overview

Outlines key Cisco Secure Firewall SD-WAN features, including dual ISP support, application-aware routing, ECMP load balancing, dynamic and static VTIs, routing protocol support, high availability, and simplified management for secure, scalable, and resilient branch and WAN deployments.

The following table lists some commonly used SD-WAN features:


SD-WAN Feature	Introduced in	More Information
SD-WAN Wizard	Release 7.6	Using SD-WAN Wizard for Secure Branch Network Deployment
Application monitoring using SD-WAN Summary dashboard	Release 7.4.1	SD-WAN Summary Dashboard
SD-WAN Summary Dashboard	Release 7.4	SD-WAN Summary Dashboard
Policy-based routing with user identity and SGTs	Release 7.4	Policy Based Routing
Policy-based routing using HTTP path monitoring	Release 7.4	Policy Based Routing
Loopback interface support for VTIs	Release 7.3	Configure Loopback Interfaces
Support for dynamic VTI (DVTI) with site-to-site VPN	Release 7.3	Dynamic VTI
Umbrella auto tunnel	Release 7.3	Deploy a SASE Tunnel on Umbrella
Support for IPv4 and IPv6 BGP, IPv4 and IPv6 OSPF, and IPv4 EIGRP for VTIs	Release 7.3	BGP OSPF EIGRP
Route-based site-to-site VPN with hub and spoke topology	Release 7.2	Create a Route-based Site-to-Site VPN
Policy-based routing with path monitoring	Release 7.2	Policy Based Routing
Site to Site VPN Monitoring Dashboard	Release 7.1	Monitoring the Site-to-Site VPNs
Direct Internet Access/Policy Based Routing	Release 7.1	Policy Based Routing
Equal-Cost-Multi-Path (ECMP) zone with WAN interfaces	Release 7.1	ECMP
ECMP zone with VTI interfaces	Release 7.1	ECMP
Backup VTI for route-based site-to-site VPN	Release 7.0	Route Traffic Through a Backup VTI Tunnel
Support for static VTI (SVTI) with site-to-site VPN	Release 6.7	Static VTI

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