In our Cisco portfolio we have 2 SD-WAN solutions, Cisco Meraki or Cisco (Viptela). Both are top contenders in the SD-WAN market segment, but which solution fits your networking needs in the best way possible?
Choose for Cisco SD-WAN if one or more of the following is a requirement:
- Deploy SD-WAN on ISR or vEdge.
- Use deep packet inspection to build policies and prioritize traffic flow.
- Support for more than 2 ISP/WAN connections.
- LTE (4G) should be a primary link used for load-balancing traffic.
- Not 1, but many VPNs required between 2 sites. Segment your traffic not only on the LAN but keep it segmented over the WAN and create multiple topologies.
- Insert a service, like an IDS firewall, into an active VPN.
- Choice of deploying the management servers in your own datacenter or hosted by Cisco.
- WAN optimization with Cisco WaaS.
- Optimize SaaS applications like O365. Provide a direct internet break-out & leverage the existing WAN connections to automatically calculate the best part to provide the O365 Break-out.
- In depth analysis of applications crossing the WAN.
- A strong support for inter-cloud (LTE|Internet|MPLS) is required.
Extra Modularity is achieved when deploying SD-WAN on ISR.
No Modularity is required? ISR111x or vEdge might do it.
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Selecting Meraki is choosing for out-of-the-box SD-WAN. Go for a quick and easy to manage solution that will cover solutions requiring:
- Deployment of SD-WAN on MX.
- Use L7 Firewalling to build policies and prioritize traffic flow.
- Support up to 2 ISP/WAN connections.
- LTE (4G) works as failover when primary WAN links fail.
- Connecting all sites with 1 mesh/Hub-Spoke topology.
- Deploy the solution in the same dashboard as where to manage your LAN network. In Cisco Meraki’s Cloud.
- Track SaaS applications like O365 and analyse delays on Lan/Wan or server problems to quickly pinpoint where an issue might be.
- Constant monitoring of all your WAN links across the organisation in 1 dashboard.
In addition to that, Meraki MX adds the option of being the UTM firewall in your network.
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LiveNX: Your Unified Analytics Platform for Cisco SD-WAN / Meraki / and more
- Day 0 – PLAN: While network migration is not a blank-slate exercise, it does afford an organization the opportunity to perform an audit of assets, sites, resources and policies, with possibilities to tailoring the new network to their business needs.
- Day 1 – Build: During the production build out, the proof of concept is rolled out to active users. Once connectivity is established, based on requirements identified in the Day 0 baseline analysis, you will configure access control lists (ACLs) and quality of service (QoS) policies to mark traffic and deploy configurations to the devices in the network.
- Day 2 – Run: Once the production network is live, the ongoing day-to-day operations need to focus on continual improvements and best practices. LiveNX delivers data metrics, dashboards and reports of the applications and network performance, on order to optimize the end-to-end environment.
The Pulse
Cisco’s acquisition of Viptela has shifted the focus to delivering cloud-first software-defined networking solutions to their customers. With Cisco’s mission to deliver intent-based networking –network solutions that conform to what’s important to the business – Cisco SD-WAN (formerly Viptela) accelerates the enablement of that vision to the enterprise.
The Network Lifecycle: Every Step Counts
A solution that supports these essential capabilities enhances every step of the network lifecycle, prevents productivity- and schedule-killing missteps, and accelerates detection, troubleshooting, and resolution when problems do arise.
