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What is Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN?
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN gives users the ability to manage connectivity across their WAN from a single dashboard that simplifies day to day monitoring and operations. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN can be cloud-managed or deployed on premise offering comprehensive routing, security and…
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- The failover mechanism is great between the two circuits. We load balance between the gold and silver circuits. As you know, ISPs go down all the time...
- The interfaces could definitely be a little bit more intuitive for people who don't understand what they're looking at. If you have a level one help d...
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What is Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN?
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN gives users the ability to manage connectivity across their WAN from a single dashboard that simplifies day to day monitoring and operations. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN can be cloud-managed or deployed on premise offering comprehensive routing, security and policy control,…
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- Zero-touch enrollment
- Routing
- Dashboard
- Firewalling
- Given application visibility
- Improve dashboard
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Centralized system for a small supervisioned team.
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- The failover mechanism is great between the two circuits. We load balance between the gold and silver circuits. As you know, ISPs go down all the time, so the failover definitely keeps us up. We keep our SLAs for all of our end users and it's great.
- The interfaces could definitely be a little bit more intuitive for people who don't understand what they're looking at. If you have a level one help desk, things like that, it gets real confusing for them real quick and they typically need to escalate higher to figure out, get time to resolution and things like that.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
- We are able to use a multiple different circuits to go into the cloud, so we are not relying on just one particular private wireless. We're relying on wine circuits, ethernet, ethernet out. So it provides us that flexibility where we didn't have that before. Provides security that is very robust and flexible and scalable and it provides us with, the biggest thing is redundancy, where we have backup. For example, we have a Starlink for nuclear power plants. If our main circuits go down, we have that. And without Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN it would be very hard to actually achieve, to accomplish true redundancy. So we're happy with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN in that regard.
- So one of the frustrating things is that the name changes. This was a company that Cisco bought. We understand that, and everything was managed and whatever. Now everything changed, product line changed, and yet Cisco tax still calls it V managed. Sometimes it's just a little confusing. The name, the name of that. So that's the one thing that I would say. Keep it simple. We have way too many acronyms already that we try to remember in our industry. If you change the whole thing, it's very complicated for a lot of people. So keep it simple.
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- I will say the ease of use. I know it's very much a template based with feature templates and device templates when deployed properly. I truly believe that the tool can be very, very effective and actually quite robust for us to leverage for globally because we manage a lot of distribution centers and it's all over the world and a different environment in each and every location and obviously across the global markets as well. We've got a wide range of use cases and how it would be very beneficial to each of our business units that we support.
- I will say the way we use it now, and I think what happened was the way it was deployed, it was fine, but unfortunately over the course of the years we've gotten a little out of hand with our device templates and feature templates. I think if there's any form of feedback that I would give to Cisco is how do we find ways to improve the environment as it stands so we get to a certain point with the environment and then we don't know how to undo it or fix it or optimize the environment. Because right now we're in a position where we're playing a lot of catch up and clean up and if there was a way or some tool or feature that we can take advantage of that would allow us to optimize that environment where we will kind of corner ourselves into a lot of problems in the future. There's some feature or something that we could take advantage of that will allow us to optimize that environment and not let it get out of control pretty easily. That would be my suggestion.
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- Our architecture topology is massive to having tools. The SD-wan devices per site. One the primary and one the second the backup up. And also the providers are full ancy on the one connection.
- Maybe we are facing some issues with above on the current one version. Discussing that some interfaces cannot establish no negotiation. So we face that issue and the improvements should be maybe provide a new iOS version to fix this scope.
Cisco Solution
- GUI
- Dropdown
- Organization
- Functionality
- Adaptable settings
- Suggestions
- Automated & updated custom layouts
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN review
- Easy of use
- Management of devices
- Template use
- GIU interfaces
- Visibility of entire network path
- Streamlined dashboards for better information
- Enhanced tools for troubleshooting path issues
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Partner Perspective
- Separate the management configuration of traffic
- More visibility of the traffic
- Automatization
- The configurations policy rules
- Applications of templates
- More information about the errors when we applied templates
You have a big and complex network, move to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and make your life easier!
- Branch deployments (Zero-touch provisioning)
- Software upgrades
- Troubleshooting
- Dashboards to alerts about potential impacts
- For companies with presence in China, have alternatives due great China Firewall
- Integrate manage with vAnalytics... to have a single point of access for both
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Rocks
- Monitoring links
- Easy operation
- Reliable
- Netflow observability
Catalyst SD-WAN Platform
- Software Upgrades
- Configuration Deployment
- Template Configuration
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
- vManage provides a single organization plane
- Templates are easy to navigate
- Central Policy allows us to manage our devices
- AAR helps us with failing over when we have trouble with our circuits
- Switching in to CLI more seamlessly
- We have to preform ugrades/ patches often
- We have to port hop our 8300s frequently
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
- Template-based configuration
- Load-balance between ISPs
- Overview of the entire WAN infrastructure
- Renaming the names of the objects
- Integration with other Cisco SD products
- Better monitoring
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- Routing
- Redistribution
- AAR
- Security logging
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
- Central management
- Encryption
- Firewall services
Flexible scaling with Cisco SD-WAN Solutions
- reduces complexity
- circuit monitoring
- flexible scaling
- preconfigured workflows
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN review
- Sets config automatically to device
- Policy is easy to apply
- As for my company Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN fulfils all needs
You can save time while configuring, deploying setup.
Review from a Cisco NetVet Nerd
- Management
- Operation
- Security
- Provisioning
- Automation
Using Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Segmentation and Scalability
- AAR
- Cloud on ramp
- Policy based routing
- VPN segmentation
- SASE
- Orchestrator monitoring capabilities
- Licensing
- On the box security
VPN security with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
- Orchestration
- VPN security
- template management
- GUI
- BUGS
Goodbye to legacy systems, thanks to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN.
- Share internet IP subnet and no worry about IP
- Simple to connect the sites
- Templates made easy to onboard a site in few minutes
- Best QOE
- Application aware routing excellent
- Moritoring and alerting
- NAT for VPN
- More simpler creating HuB and spoke
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution
- Automated WAN
- Allows the client to increase WAN bandwidth without costing too much like legacy MPLS
- VPN segmentation
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN routers can also connect to other third-party Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) providers such as Zscaler providing secured DIA
- It was hard to catch up when I first joined the project as SD-WAN concept is different. That would be great if Cisco can introduce SD-WAN concepts better to the network engineers community to enable them to adopt easier.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
- Reliable
- Improve
- Scalable
- Design
- Style
- Inter faces
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- Signaling
- Data
- Voice
- QoS
- Configuration
- Support
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN independent review
- Dynamic path selection
- Zero touch provisioning
- Application visibility
- Complex configurations
- Ease of Integrations
Less appropriate scenarios include:
Small Businesses with Simple Networks: For small businesses with straightforward network requirements, the advanced features and complexity of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN may be overkill. Simpler solutions might be more cost-effective and easier to manage.