Gist of Cisco SD-WAN

Communication --> OMP - Overlay Management Protocol
Componants:

Data Plane —> Routers
  •  Deployed on Remote Sites
  • Any viptela vEdge routers
  • Cisco ASR & ISR
  • Virtual on x86 (Cisco ENCS)

Control Plane —> vSmart Controller
  • Hosted on cloud
  • All Data Plane routers speak to vSmart to get directions.
  • Scales horizontally  
  • Has App aware routing policies (If primary connection has a 100 ms of latency switch over to secondary link)
  • vSmart analysis the traffic for a app (O365) on all links & dynamically updates the Branch Routers 
  • Can send traffic in separate link on the same link

Management Plane —> vManage 
  • Hosted on cloud
  • Can have analytics

Orchestration Plane —> vBond
  • Hosted on cloud
  • When the branch router comes up it connects to vBond from Cisco & get the info of Enterprise vBond where it gets all info about vManage, vSmart & network info.

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