Overview
Enterprise Networks today are rapidly growing in scale and complexity and the Digitization journey demands a hyper-connected envrionment. In addition, the Enterprise Networking connectivity models also need to incorporate the explosive growth around Mobility, IoT and Cloud. Networking teams need a simple, agile infrastructure that can help them lower costs and easily address business demands around enhanced network connectivity, and at the same time ensure that the environment is secure.
Cisco SD-Access built on the principles of Cisco Digital Network Architecture, provides a transformational shift in building and managing networks - faster, easier with reduced operational expenses. The Cisco SD-Access architecture is designed towards meeting the IT transformation goals around simplicity, operational effectiveness and security. This architecture provides an open, software-driven platform that integrates critical innovations in networking software, such as virtualization, automation, analytics, and cloud, into a unified architecture for wired, wireless and remote access.
Key Customer Benefits
End to End Segmentation – Secure users, devices and applications with identity-based policy, regardless of location.
Simple, Automated Workflows - Design, provision, and manage your wired and wireless networks for edge to the cloud.
Intelligent Network Fabric – Enable a consistent user experience anywhere with insights and analytics into user and application behavior.
Components of SD-Access
- Cisco Network Infrastructure : Enhanced networking capabilities in Cisco Catalyst Switching, Cisco Wireless and Cisco ISR/ASR Routers around segmentation, network virtualization and programmability provide the foundation to build a modern networking architecture of SD-Access.
- Cisco DNA Center : Cisco's SDN Controller platform for the Enterprise - Cisco DNA Center - provides the necessary automation capabilities.
- ISE : Cisco Identity Services Engine provides the critical authenticated access and group-based access control policy components of SD-Access, while also helping deliver advanced security integrations to control user and endpoint access policies.
- Network Data Platform : Cisco Network Data Platform delivers the analytics and insights in SD-Access to monitor network and application performance, and quickly help pinpoint and troubleshoot issues in the network.
Target Audience
- ISVs : Discover capabilities offered by Cisco DNA and Cisco SD-Access, and leverage them to deliver new IT experiences to customers
- System Integrators / VARs : Deliver holistic solutions to customers combining Cisco DNA, ISV offerings as well as discover opportunities for custom integrations
- Customers : Get more value from your SD-Access deployments by learning about integrations with 3rd party solutions