Cisco SD-WAN

Cisco SD-WAN is used within the organization for the communication of the various sites through the overlay and to be able to access the systems that are hosted centrally in the corporate and have redundancies for access to services. One of the main benefits is the centralized administration of all the equipment.

We used Cisco Viptela SD-WAN to provide customer solutions, mostly customers are using SD-WAN for two reasons in Sri Lanka: 1. Direct internet access to access their cloud servers and SaaS applications such as O365, SAP, and 2. Single pane of glass management with full visibility of their MPLS network.

We currently use it across the company. The main issue with the solution are the constant updates.

Cisco SD-WAN has proven to be phenomenal for our organization, and it is used all throughout. It is used as pre-defined, software-wide networking. Cisco SD-WAN is a cloud-based service that carries out WAN infusion. It fastens the bridges of any user to any application with unified capabilities such as multi-cloud, security, optimized visibility, and analytics construction. This is in connection with a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which authorizes architecture.
Some issues come out in the solution-based scenario:
1. Zero Touch Provisioning
2. Enhanced Cloud Connectivity
3. Data Analytics
4. One point to another point Segmentation
5. Multiple VPNs feature is very enhanced.

What sets [...] Cisco SD-WAN apart from the traditional approach is that [it] lowers WAN OPEX and CAPEX, which leads to greater business agility and responsiveness. Dashboards provide great insights into what is going on at our sites. It's easy to manage our routers in one spot and not [...] have to use multiple tools to control our policies. This is [a] great solution as we have [a] large number of sites.

Cisco SD-WAN is used to connect many distant sites [...] with traditional internet connections or MPLS. The main reason to use Cisco SD-WAN is to [easily make] the tunnel establishments between different sites with traffic segregation and security features applied upon each tunnel. Software-defined wireless area network from Cisco is a serious competitor to other companies that deliver SD-WAN services.

Cisco SD-WAN is being used by our whole organization. It provides advanced analytics, monitoring, and automation for any connection across our network. Cisco SD-WAN is now used by the organization for traffic control and internet connections. With the overlay concept, the key goal is automation.

The company currently uses [Cisco] SD-WAN as the core of traffic management and internet links [for] the laboratory and testing network, this allows us to present a DEMO environment for our clients, and we as a work team define policies on our public internet links, including enabling analytics and interaction with Cisco security components such as Umbrella.

Its been a great product to use as it helps in cloud-based security. With this, our performance has been improved and also there is a reduction in cost. It helps in deployment and also makes [the] cloud migration process very easy. It helps in protecting against threats also. It provides high latency and also prevents the loss of packets. [It] helps in solving the problems like [a] bandwidth limitation. It also makes the transfer of data in [the] data center a very simple process.

We are using Cisco SD-WAN across Canada for KPMG and with the Cisco SD-WAN we are automating the configurations with Templates and API calls. It actually helps to secure and provision the sites with less time interval. The main purpose is Automation and assurance with the overlay concept of OMP protocol and the DIA with On-Ramp looks like a strong product portfolio.

Cisco SD-WAN provides the ability to manage connectivity across WANs from a single dashboard which simplifies the total work, from day to day operations and preventive/reactive monitoring. It can also be managed via cloud or on-prem, which provides flexibility for future owners as they can choose the deployment type that would fit their company more. Deployment can also be from a small number of locations to thousands of locations with ease of scalability. Cisco SD-WAN also offers comprehensive routing, security, policy control on top of the advanced analytics. You can also readily connect and manage multiple clouds with greater speed and reliability.

Our company operates far from any reliable wide bandwidth connections and we have to rely on a mixture of satellite broadband and limited dedicated broadband from sole mobile operator that services the area where our organization operates. Before we switched to Cisco SD-WAN we had a hard time managing network performance and applications. We increased our user numbers dramatically but our bandwidth stayed the same; with dramatic user expansion, our bandwidth became inadequate for our needs. After we implemented Cisco SD-WAN, we managed to prioritize office applications (emails, SharePoint, etc.) and users manage to perform their tasks faster and more efficiently. On the other hand we managed to add LTE routers to boost our traffic. Thanks to Cisco SD-WAN, we did not have any security breaches and feel confident in Cisco SD-WAN's security features. Since we implemented Cisco SD-WAN, our business applications work faster, business continuity increased, and cloud services became more available and usable for our needs. My network team also spends less time adjusting and configuring routing tables and application routings. Instead of monitoring traffic constantly, we let Cisco SD-WAN automatically adjust our traffic and as a result we have improved performance overall--even some streaming services have started to work at an acceptable level in our remote location. In the end we manage to provide better connectivity for both our business and personal needs for users.

We use Cisco SD-WAN for application visibility across the whole organization for WAN devices. It gives a great view of SLA class over tunnel performance. We have vEdge across our corporate sites. It took a lot of time to understand the design and implementation, but adding new sites to an existing fabric has turned out to be easy. There is a bit of time and effort required to understand the network requirements, underlay, and SLA class.

We decided to utilize Cisco SD-WAN at our Main data centers as well as at each remote office branch location. Approximately 20 U.S. sites in total for the whole organization. This helped us reduce the mix of P2P, MPLS, and direct-connect circuits across multiple carriers. Could not be happier with the results so far.

We are currently using SD-WAN in way that it likely wasn't originally intended. While the main purpose of SD-WAN is to provide reliability over multiple data paths/mediums, we've largely been using it as a DMVPN for telecommuters. But unlike traditional VPNs or DMVPNs, this always-on method includes added layers of security, higher throughput, and the added benefit of QoS. (Yes, QoS doesn't do anything over the internet, but with this we can limit throughput and still give outbound priority to things like Voice so they're out first and less likely to be dropped.) Especially in the current environment of COVID-19 where so many are staying at home and working from home and streaming entertainment from the internet, there is a lot of congestion going on out there and every benefit is worth it.

We're using SD Wan for high availability for our costumers.

Connext as a company with 7 branch offices was facing communication problems with lack of quality in voice and video calls due to the fact that the two internet access [ports] were not being configured in the best way. Installing and configuring Meraki improved the communications between each branch office and also empowered the team to collaborate in a more effective way.

SD- WAN It is helping us to quickly connect data centers, branches, distribution centers, improve efficiency, security and network speed.

A través de Cisco Meraki Platform, en la cual nos ha ayudado a administradas miles de dispositivos desde una sola Interfaz, permitiendo el despliegue rápido de los dispositivos. Adicionalmente, ha reducido los tickets de soporte, así como la completa utilización de los recursos de Internet que posee el cliente.

We use it across the whole organization. Cinépolis is one of the biggest cinema companies around the world. We have at least one MX84 box in each cinema. Also in the Mexico data center we have two mx-450s on HA. We also have some virtual MX mounted on Amazon and Azure. We implemented it to solve the frequent issue that we had in some of our sites that happened when our ISP had a problem. We sometimes lost full connection to the cinema's servers. With this solution we have 2 different carriers at each site and it gives us higher availability.

We use SD-WAN in order to improve our communications between our branches, before we used SD-WAN we had inconvenience with our communications, after SD-WAN we can use two ways of communications and we solved the inconvenience that we had. SD-WAN is a good solution if you have multiple branches and you need to have your branches always in communication.

SD-WAN was being used across the whole company when I worked at my previous company. It was utilized mostly for connecting the branches. It allows for zero-touch provisioning, which is very desirable. A specific issue it addressed was that it reduced manpower expenses since troubleshooting really was made easier and less convoluted. With a single click, you could configure different protocols including but not limited to OSPF BGP's ACL and a couple of others.

It is used across the whole organization and solved many bandwidth problems we had previously experienced.

We have managed the network in a tremendous way with Cisco SD-WAN.