Cisco Networking Software Demo Series: Cisco SD-WAN and Multicloud

SD-WAN is poised to play a key role in the enterprise WAN market which is seeing a consolidation of diverse submarkets such as infrastructure, security, management, and monitoring. As is the case for any growing and evolving industry with a high total addressable market (TAM) potential, many vendors, both large and small, have come up with SD-WAN products and solutions. Standards are still evolving and solutions reflect the varying perspectives, strengths, and weaknesses of vendors. That has led to a fair bit of confusion about the solution spectrum. What and how should you evaluate an SD-WAN solution?

While most data centers are prepared for current bandwidth demands and maintain up-to-date backbones, some enterprise networks are in danger of falling behind. Increased wireless traffic has already taxed many enterprise environments. Evolving IEEE 802.11 standards such as 802.11ac Wave 1, Wave 2, and 802.11ax — along with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies — encourage more Wi-Fi activity and place significant strain on existing 1000BASE-T systems. This demand has pushed network speed requirements beyond 1 Gb/s. Enterprise networks will fail to meet the growing demand for reliable network performance without the right cabling infrastructure in place.

The rise of whitebox has given enterprises and service providers unprecedented ability to build custom solutions without being reliant on one vendor. With rising adoption of SD-WAN, both are turning to uCPE as a foundation to SD-WAN solutions built specifically for their needs. This webinar will look at the significance of “openness” in SD-WAN offerings and the truth of just how “universal” most uCPE’s are. It will examine the need for interoperability and the steps vendors are and aren’t taken to enable it. Finally, it will address the role of service integrators, service providers, and enterprises as they all work to deploy SD-WAN with uCPE.

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