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Cisco APIC-EM Application for Intelligent WAN

The IWAN Application simplifies WAN deployments by providing a highly intuitive, policy-based interface that helps IT abstract network complexity and design for business intent. The business policy is automatically translated into network policies that are propagated across the network. This solution enables IT to accelerate the transition to hybrid WAN, and quickly realize the benefits of Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN): lower costs, simplified IT, increased security, and optimized application performance. The IWAN Application is prescriptive of the Cisco Validated Design and provisioning of its core pillars for a large number of sites from a centralized location. Upon power-up the branch-office routers are automatically configured and ready to use. This architecture is based on open interfaces, a software-defined networking (SDN) services plane, and device-layer abstraction. This approach will allow full policy-directed deployment and operation of the network. IT can now meet line-of-business (LOB) time-to-market needs with automated functions that are propagated in minutes as you activate branch offices or roll out applications. The network including all routers is abstracted and IT can focus on the business priorities without being concerned about the underlying topology

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Arbor Networks provides solutions for DDoS protection, protection from advanced threats and local and global network visibility. The company founded in 2000 on the back of some ground-breaking research conducted at the University of Michigan that eventually became funded by the U.S. Defense Agency Research Projects Administration (DARPA).Since then, Arbor has focused exclusively on researching, detecting and mitigating network-based threats and is heavily deployed in service provider networks globally

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Cisco APIC-EM Application for Intelligent WAN