Seamlessly connect Cisco
SD-WAN to the cloud with
Alkira Cloud Area Networking.

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Alkira Cloud Networking for Cisco SD-WAN

Reduce complexity and accelerate software-defined innovation with cloud networking.

Alkira Cloud Area Networking features full integration of Cisco SD-WAN. Connect edge to cloud with reduced complexity, increased security, and the flexibility of as-a-service delivery. Automate and accelerate deployments of Cisco SD-WAN, enabling instant cloud networking with integrated advanced security services. The combined Alkira and Cisco solution removes the need for per-cloud onramps, removes silos, and makes connecting to the cloud fast, simple, and secure.

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Benefits

Simplified Operations

Simplified instantiation, visibility and monitoring for for Cisco SD-WAN virtual instances.

Unified Routing
Unified Routing

Enterprise-grade cross-segment routing and security controls for shared cloud application services.

Centralized Security
Centralized Security

End-to-end segmentation between SD-WAN sites and cloud workloads with advanced security and policy enforcement for cloud application traffic.

Network Regionalization

Save cost and provisioning time on long-haul private circuits by interconnecting regionalized for Cisco SD-WAN fabrics over the Alkira’s high speed low latency global cloud backbone.

Seamless Mergers and Acquisitions

Seamlessly interconnect multi-vendor SD-WAN fabrics to support mergers and acquisitions during the migration to an enterprise-wide for Cisco SD-WAN solution.

Bring Your Own License

Alkira Cloud Area Networking fully supports a BYOL model. Simply drag, drop, and connect your existing Cisco SD-WAN environment to Alkira. No hardware to buy, no new software to license, no agents to manage. It’s that easy!

Solution

Alkira offers Cisco SD-WAN customers a unified, multi-cloud on-ramp, seamlessly integrated into the global Alkira routed network fabric. The joint solution provides the following elements:

Automated Provisioning

Cisco SD-WAN virtual appliances are automatically provisioned in the globally distributed Alkira Cloud Exchange Points. Alkira offers full lifecycle management for the SD-WAN virtual appliances, including high availability and horizontal scale.

Advanced Cloud Networking and Security

Alkira offers advanced routing controls and intelligent cloud firewall service insertion for application traffic between Cisco SD-WAN and the enterprise public cloud environments attached to the Alkira solution.

End-to-end Segmentation

End-to-end Segmentation

Cisco SD-WAN segmentation interoperates with Alkira’s segmentation capabilities creating a single end-to-end segmented environment across users, sites and clouds.

How does it work?

  • Logon to the Alkira Cloud Area Networking portal
  • Map to Alkira segments and groups to integrate with the global Alkira network policy
  • Select Cisco SD-WAN from the list of available on-premises connectors in the Alkira design canvas

Fast End-to-End Security with
Cisco Secure Firewall

In addition to Cisco SD-WAN, Alkira Cloud Area Networking also
features fully integrated Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.

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