Cisco SDWAN-4 Flashcards
What is the Cisco SD-WAN solution?
Software-defined wide area network is the separation of the control plane and forwarding planes.
What are the key benefits offered by Cisco SD-WAN?
Transport independent.
Secure Connectivity: IPSEC & (TLS/DTLS)
The separation of the control and forwarding planes.
LAN Segmentation.
Onboard to cloud Apps.
Cloud Connectivity.
WAN Analytics.
What are vSmart controllers?
The vSmart is the Control plane of SDWAN. OMP (TLS/DTLS) pushes global policies to the edge routers. It can be deployed on-prem, cloud, or Cisco-cloud hosted.
What are vBond orchestrators?
The vBond is the Orchestration Plane of SDWAN. First point of authentication (white-list model) for the edge routers. Distributes the list of vSmarts/ vManage to all vEdge routers after authorization is done. Maintains a Complete chassis number & S/N Token database.
