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Cisco Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) provides a highly scalable, resilient, and secure network infrastructure. With advanced security features built into the solution, automation, centralized management, and monitoring, Cisco SD-WAN enables you to control your network through a single dashboard, reduce operating costs, and ensure the best possible experience for your users in local applications or on the cloud.
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03-19-2021 10:29 AM
What are the possible integrations between Cisco SD-WAN and ACI?
Thank you for your reply!
JMD
* This is a question posted in French by Jean Marie D. It has been translated by Cisco Community to share the inquiry and its solution in different languages.
03-19-2021 10:43 AM
Hi Jean Marie,
Cisco ACI release 4.1(1) adds support for WAN SLA policies. This feature enables tenant administrators to apply preconfigured policies to specify the levels of packet loss, jitter, and latency for tenant traffic over the WAN. When a WAN SLA policy is applied to tenant traffic, the Cisco APIC sends the configured policies to a Cisco vSmart Controller. The Cisco vSmart Controller, which is configured in Cisco ACI as an external device manager that provides Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN capabilities, chooses the best possible WAN link that meets the loss, jitter, and latency parameters specified in the SLA policy. The WAN SLA policies are applied to tenant traffic though contracts.
As an example of where this feature can be useful, consider a deployment in which branches connect to a data center over a WAN using multiple transport technologies, such as MPLS, internet, and 4G. In such deployments, there can be multiple paths between the branches and data centers. This feature provides optimized path selection in these situations based on application groups and SLA.
Cisco APIC release 4.2(1) adds support for enabling returning traffic from a remote site that is destined for the ACI data center to receive differentiated services over the WAN. After the tenant admin registers the Cisco APIC to vManage, the Cisco APIC pulls the WAN-SLA policies and the WAN-VPN from vManage. Then, the Cisco APIC assigns DSCP to each WAN-SLA policy and pushes a prefix list. The prefix list, which is taken from the EPG if the contract between this EPG and L3Out has WAN-SLA configured, enables quality of service on the returning traffic. The WAN-SLA policy and WAN-VPN are both available in the tenant common. Tenant admins map the WAN-VPNs to VRFs on remote sites.
Danny
03-19-2021 11:21 AM
Thanks for this event, team!
Could you explain how TCP optimization works, please?
Note: This question is the translation of a post originally created in Portuguese by Adolfo Suarez.It was translated by the Cisco Community to share the query and its solution in different languages.
03-19-2021 11:27 AM
First, keep in mind that TCP is a bidirectional protocol and operates only when connection-initiation messages (SYNs) are acknowledged by ACK messages in a timely fashion. Cisco SD-WAN has a built-in TCP Optimization feature that allows us to fine tune the processing of TCP data traffic, thus decreasing round-trip latency and improving throughput.
With TCP optimization, a router acts as a TCP proxy between a client that is initiating a TCP flow and a server that is listening for a TCP flow, as illustrated in the following figure:
When we enable TCP optimization on the two routers above, Router A terminates the TCP connection from the client and establishes a TCP connection with Router B. Router B then establishes a TCP connection to the server. The two routers cache the TCP traffic in their buffers to ensure that the traffic from the client reaches the server without allowing the TCP connection to time out.
03-19-2021 12:31 PM
03-19-2021 11:32 AM
Hi everybody,
With additional headers from GRE, IPSEC and OMP, how is the MTU defined between the routers?
03-19-2021 11:47 AM
Hi John,
OMP is a protocol used exclusively on the Control Plane, that is, it propagates routes, policies, TLOCs. It will not be used to transport or encapsulate data traffic. In the Data Plane we will have encapsulation with IPsec or GRE (IPsec is used by default) and in this case, yes, there is an overhead that needs to be taken into account. Bear in mind that we have BFD sessions established between SD-WAN routers over the transport tunnels. BFD will be used for link failure detection, measuring of latency, loss and other statistics used by application-aware routing. BFD will also assist in the PMTU Discovery process in each of the available transports.
Regards.
G.
03-19-2021 12:42 PM
03-19-2021 01:25 PM
Hi guys,
Considering a Cisco SD-WAN deployment with cloud-based controllers, what happens if communication is lost between WAN Edges and the controllers? Are the WAN Edges able to continue forwarding data traffic?
03-19-2021 02:00 PM
03-19-2021 07:02 PM
Thank you svemulap!
In addition to that, the environment continues to operate normally, based on the latest OMP information. This is valid both on the vSmart side and on the WAN Edges side. By default, OMP information is kept in cache for 12 hours and this can be changed by tuning an option called "OMP Graceful Restart".
Best regards.
G.
03-19-2021 07:31 PM
Which router models can work inside Cisco SD-WAN overlay?
TY
03-22-2021 11:50 AM
Hi Olipo,
There are routers for each requirement, you can check general list here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/software/one-wan-subscription/guide-c07-740642.html
Hope it helps, regards.
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