Hello everyone,
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Product Management team is proud to announce the general availability of cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, a new deployment option for Catalyst SD-WAN. This is our latest, simplest, and most efficient deployment option for the Catalyst SD-WAN fabric. Prior to this announcement, we provided on-premises as well as Cisco hosted options wherein customers either have full or shared ownership responsibility of the Catalyst SD-WAN fabric.
With this new cloud-delivered offering, we are taking our next step in the evolution of Catalyst SD-WAN with the intent to make it more consumable and easily scalable for our customers. Cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN offers an automated solution delivery with Cisco overseeing the lifecycle management of the SD-WAN fabric, and provides rich, actionable, end-to-end insights while lowering the overall total cost of ownership (TCO).
Why cloud-delivered?
When we speak to our customers and prospects, we frequently hear that you want to be freed from the operational responsibilities of the SD-WAN fabric and make it easily scalable and agile. You want to focus on business outcomes without having to worry about the day-to-day operations.
With this solution, we reduce your operational responsibilities, and you’ll have a fully featured Catalyst SD-WAN fabric ready to use in no time.
What is cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN?
Cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN brings simplicity to Catalyst SD-WAN fabric operations. Customer would only need to manage the edge devices at branch or remote locations.
Cisco will own most of the operational responsibility. Our Cloud Operations (CloudOps) team will handle all SD-WAN Fabric life cycle management including…
- Fabric creation
- Single sign-on provisioning
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Fabric upgrades
- Controller certificate installations and renewals
- Integrated analytics
With our current Cisco hosted or on-prem offerings, these tasks are the customers’ responsibility. However, we are committed to meeting your business and technical requirements wherever you are, so if there is a use-case for these existing deployments these options are still available and fully supported.
How do we do it?
The new bundled cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN SKUs will allow partners and customers to order and deploy the solution very easily. It’s available for Cisco partners to order from Cisco Commerce Workplace (CCW) and through Public Cloud marketplaces on AWS and Azure. Very soon we will also bring in guided workflows for ordering on Cisco Commerce Workplace (CCW).
We’ve reduced the provisioning time from weeks to hours with these simple steps:
- Subscribe and place an order.
- Onboard and deploy the fabric.
- Operate
View this video to see a demo of the end-to-end process in action and how quickly your users can begin taking advantage of the most widely deployed SD-WAN solution in the market!
Feel free to reach to your Cisco sales representative for any questions regarding how to order cloud-delivered Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN.
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