SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct.
20, 2020 /CNW/ --
News Summary:
- Cisco introduces new Wide Area Networking (WAN) edge platform
to deliver secure and automated access to applications
- Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platform accelerates cloud adoption by
providing businesses with flexible options for secure connectivity
and visibility to applications across cloud, data center and edge.
- Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways support connecting remote
sites using the latest wireless WAN technologies, paving the way
for 5G connectivity in the branch office.
- Adventist Health System plans to deploy the Cisco Catalyst 8000
Edge Platform to support real-time connectivity to applications
across its hospitals and physician practices.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its new Wide Area
Networking (WAN) edge platform to help customers accelerate cloud
adoption and deliver secure and automated connectivity to
applications across cloud, data center and edge.
A foundational piece of Cisco's intent-based networking
portfolio, the Catalyst 8000 Edge family provides customers with an
innovative and high-performance routing platform. Through
built-in analytics, the new platform delivers greater visibility
into network or application problems and drives informed decisions to optimize user
experiences.
As organizations accelerate their adoption of cloud and place
more computing power at the edge to run a wider range of
applications and improve performance, IT teams are faced with
increased complexity, and less control and visibility over the
applications running on their networks. These challenges are
restricting agility and the ability to deliver secure, connected
experiences. The new Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platform transforms
the WAN edge, helping customers be more agile by delivering
automated and secure connectivity to applications across cloud,
data center and edge.
"With the proliferation of applications, workloads and services
becoming more distributed across the edge-cloud continuum,
organizations are facing new realities at the WAN edge," said JL
Valente, Vice President, Product Management for Cisco's
Intent-Based Networking Group. "In building secure multicloud
access architectures, IT organizations need the agility to change
course and scale quickly along with the needs of business.
The Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platform bridges the WAN edge and the
cloud edge, providing secure, high-performance connectivity for
distributed users to any cloud while delivering IT visibility and
business agility."
The new platform allows customers to adopt cloud solutions at
their own pace. For those looking to adopt a Secure Access Service
Edge (SASE) architecture, Cisco SD-WAN converges cloud-managed
SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security into one solution. For
customers requiring an on-premises solution, full-stack SD-WAN
security is supported.
"Adventist Health System has experienced an increasing need for
high performance WAN Edge services across our widely dispersed
hospitals and physician practices," said Ed
Vanderpool, IT Technical Manager at Adventist Health.
"Fueled by a growing use of cloud-based applications,
tele-medicine, ultra high-definition imaging and remote
collaboration, our network must deliver secure, highly resilient
and scalable connectivity, and enable agility so we can address
our patient care and business requirements. As we
expand our intent-based network, the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series
Edge Platform checks all the boxes for a flexible SD-WAN solution
that can deliver the performance, visibility, and security needed
to deliver these real-time connected experiences."
The Catalyst 8000 family are built to address today's most
pressing WAN edge issues, and flexible enough to tackle the
challenges of tomorrow. Three models are available, designed for
multiple use cases:
- As a high-performance SD-WAN solution, the Catalyst 8500
Series Edge Platform is ideal for data center, colocation, and
aggregation sites, and features the industry's highest performing
SD-WAN offering with integrated 40G and 100G Ethernet ports in a
compact single rack unit form factor. It is powered by Cisco's
third-generation Quantum Flow Processor, a proprietary Application
Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) built to provide high
performance, pervasive security and rich network
services.
- The Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platform is made to
handle edge connectivity at branch sites, offering modular access
with a diverse set of connectivity choices for customers to deliver
services on-demand to quickly adapt to changing business
requirements. It also provides
customers with up to four times better SD-WAN service
performance than the current Cisco Integrated Services Routers
(ISRs).
- The Catalyst 8000V Edge Software delivers all the
same capabilities in software. It can be deployed in the cloud or
virtualized on a platform such as Cisco's 5000 Series Enterprise
Network Compute System (ENCS).
Wireless mobility via cellular is becoming critical in modern
WANs, and Cisco is enabling customers to easily migrate to an
Advanced 4G LTE and 5G wireless WAN:
- The Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateway helps customers
deploy wireless WAN without changes to existing
infrastructure. It elevates cellular to a primary SD-WAN link
option with gigabit connectivity to any cloud or location.
The initial release supports Advanced 4G LTE CAT 18 speeds, with 5G
versions coming soon.
The Cisco Catalyst 8300 and 8500 series and Cisco Cellular
Catalyst Gateways are available today, with the Cisco Catalyst
8000v planned for availability in December 2020. All are
delivered through a flexible subscription-based offer, so customers
have continuous access to Cisco innovations as they are added to
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to reimagine their organization's future of work.
Supporting Resources:
- Blog: Catalyst 8000 Edge Family: Cisco's New
SD-WAN Platform
- Learn more about the: Catalyst 8000 Edge Platform Family
- Learn more about Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateway
- Infographic/Photos: 8 Ways to Enable the Cloud Edge
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