Cisco Systems announced SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for CoLocation, designed to simplify deploying and managing software-defined wide-area networks for multiple branches distributed over several regions.

The new offering provides an alternative option to the current practice of implementing Cisco SD-WAN at each branch network. For certain cases, the new solution may be more efficient and economical, as it regionalizes SD-WAN services in colocation facilities nearer branch networks, the company said.

Effectively, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for CoLocation consolidates traffic from multiple locations, bundling egress points across single regions into single virtual hubs in regional colocation centers.

The company said aggregating access to multi-cloud applications from multiple branches to regional colocation facilities could better serve:

Multi-national organizations unable to use direct Internet connections to cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms at the branch level because of data security restrictions and international privacy regulations for cross-border sharing of personal information.
Global organizations, including financial institutions, that often have thousands of branch offices spread over multiple geographic regions, each one requiring high application quality of experience (QoE) with granular security over traffic segmentation and application access.
Partners and vendors, who are not using SD-WAN but still need connectivity to their customers' enterprise resources and applications but do not want to install a customer's SD-WAN routing appliance at each site to provide secure access.
Remote workers in home offices or on the road who need secure VPN connections to enterprise resources over inexpensive direct Internet links without backhauling traffic to a VPN firewall at a central datacenter, which incurs additional latency that affects application performance and voice/video quality.

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Cisco has added functions to is flagship network manipulate platform, DNA Center, that introduce new analytics and problem-solving abilties for employer network clients.

DNA Center is the heart of Cisco’s Intent Based Networking initiative and is the core-networking control platform that capabilities myriad services from analytics, network control and automation capabilities to warranty setting, material provisioning and policy-based segmentation for agency networks.

The organisation prolonged DNA Center’s AI Endpoint Analytics application by way of adding the capacity to analyze the information collected from Cisco programs which include its Identity Services Engine, Software Defined Application Visibility and Control, wireless LAN controllers or third element third-party components.
The idea is that customers can use that data to define network regulations in an effort to allow only the flows it wants and to deny others, Shenoy said.

The new packages work with DNA Center’s User Defined Networks function which lets clients bring gadgets online – inclusive of visitor network devices – and feature them automatically segmented.

“The idea at the back of IBN is to offer automation and simplify IT operations and those new capabilities amplify the ability to add regulations and segmentation to provide extra intelligence to the DNA Center software program stack,” Shenoy said.

The DNA Center enhancements were introduced at Cisco’s digital person event, Cisco Live US 2020 and protected other new skills the seller mentioned previously. For instance the vendor reiterated its dedication to growing Secure Access Service Edge products and services.

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