Solutions - Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp At-a-Glance

A hybrid multicloud environment is the new norm

As traditional networking evolves to multicloud networking, enterprises are increasingly moving applications to the cloud. This strategy allows customers to scale globally, drive business agility, and benefit financially from the flexible consumption models of the cloud framework. Cloud networking gives IT the flexibility to deploy applications globally, without compromising performance and scale.

This change has brought about a whole new set of requirements for security, policy implementation, management, and more. Enterprises are faced with challenges such as management and operational complexities, inconsistent policy and security, disparate consumption models, and poor application experience. A Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) multicloud strategy, such as Cisco’s, addresses these challenges with a cloud-agnostic, normalized approach that provides scalability, automation, and agility while reducing operational costs.

Secure multicloud access with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp

To help you with your multicloud journey, Cisco offers Cisco^® SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp as part of our Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The goal of Cloud OnRamp is to simplify and automate the process of connecting on-premises environments to the cloud, and to help ensure that the customer experience and security are the same in the cloud as they are on-premises. Cloud OnRamp delivers unified policy across all major cloud providers, optimal application experience with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) optimization, and automated, cloud-agnostic branch connectivity with Cloud Interconnect.

Cloud-first journey with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp

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Cloud-first journey with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp

Benefits of Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp

● Multicloud automation: Automate and operate an SD-WAN extension to the cloud directly from the branch through the internet or interconnect providers, or even via colocation environments with just a few clicks in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and without the need to develop expertise for each cloud provider. Cloud OnRamp delivers a user-friendly interface with new capabilities including streamlined step-by-step configuration and intuitive modularized workflows.

● Unified security: Extend consistent enterprise segmentation policy and help protect users, devices, and applications by deploying security on-premises or in a cloud-delivered Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.

● Consumption flexibility: A consistent UI and workflow allow you to orchestrate and provision Cisco, cloud provider, and colocation networking resources on demand, for a unified experience across all clouds and on-premises locations. Also, with granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for middle-mile connectivity NetOps and DevOps now have personalized control over Software-Defined Cloud interconnect (SDCI) and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) account setup and configuration.

● Optimal application experience: Achieve greater visibility between cloud and on-premises, with insights into application performance, allowing you to optimize the user experience for your customers and employees, both on-premises and with SaaS/ cloud applications.

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp solutions

● Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Multicloud automates the extension of enterprise WAN into Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud public clouds, providing a consistent experience across public and government clouds and lowering entry barriers for network operators. The solution supports connectivity for site-to-cloud, intra-cloud, and inter-cloud deployments. Cloud OnRamp for Multicloud provides a simplified workflow with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager’s single-pane-of-glass automation, normalizing the user experience across different cloud provider networks and accelerating reachability to multicloud workloads.

● Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for SaaS enhances the performance and reliability of SaaS applications by utilizing real-time analytics to steer users over an optimal path for seamless site-to-application performance, supporting 14 popular SaaS applications as well as custom-defined apps. Users can choose which apps to optimize using proactive probing, with the system dynamically selecting the best WAN path for each device based on real-time network conditions. Using informed network routing and URL categorization, Cloud OnRamp delivers path optimization, deeper analytics with telemetry, and policy automation for Microsoft 365. Cloud OnRamp for SaaS also helps ensure optimal path selection for Cisco Webex^® traffic, providing enhanced collaboration and video performance.

● Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Middle- Mile integrates with providers like Equinix, Megaport, AWS Cloud WAN, Azure Virtual WAN, and Google Network Connectivity Center. It offers a single dashboard experience via SD-WAN Manager for setting up middle-mile networks, providing a unified solution for deploying SD-WAN connectivity through these providers’ private backbones. The solution allows for on-demand deployment of site-to-site, site-to-cloud, and cloud-to-cloud connections. The solution also allows for granular RBAC control and modularized provisioning of connectivity across various layers of the network between middle-mile and cloud workloads, allowing users/managed service providers to control these layers individually.

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp Solutions