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● Orchestration: A centralized location for provisioning new remote locations, deploying enterprise-class identity-based policy, and managing all distributed workforces.
● Onboarding: A zero-touch process for launching network devices, including personal devices.
● Experience: Seamless corporate-level security and application experiences for remote workspaces.
● Expansion of corporate network connectivity and identity-based policies to the home.
● Zero-touch and identity-based onboarding of wired and wireless devices (including personal devices).
● Cisco CleanAir® and advanced Radio Resource Management (RRM) technologies for spectrum management and RF visibility.
● Centralized provisioning and management and cloud security.
● Seamless application experience via optimized data path and QoS.
● Cisco CleanAir and RRM technologies for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 access points, including the Catalyst 9105 Series, are Spectrum Intelligence solutions designed to proactively manage the challenges of a shared wireless spectrum. They identify the source, location, and scope of RF interference and can proactively guard against it.
Type of wireless device |
Models |
Wi-Fi 5 access points |
Aironet® 1815t,1 1840,1 1815w,2 1815i,2 and the 2800,2 3800,2 and 48002Series |
Wi-Fi 6 access points |
Catalyst 9115,1 91051, 9120,2 and 91302 Series |
Wireless controllers2 |
3504, 5520, 8540, 9800-L, 9800-40, 9800-80, and 9800-CL (private cloud) |
● Cisco 1131 ISR: The ability to connect users reliably and securely across multicloud, branch, data center, and the hybrid workforce has become a critical success factor for any organization. The Cisco 1131 ISR is the next iteration of ISRs optimized for distributed small branches and the remote workforce, with built-in Wi-Fi 6 and 5G support for enhanced SD-WAN connectivity.
● Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Remote Access (SD-WAN RA): Integrates remote-access functionality into the SD-WAN fabric, thereby delivering all the benefits of Catalyst SD-WAN to the remote workforce. Remote workers can simply leverage existing remote-access clients (including Cisco AnyConnect®, Windows, Apple OS native clients, and hardware-based routers such as the Catalyst Wireless Gateway) to access the nearest Catalyst SD-WAN edge device, regardless of their location and devices.
● Cisco Catalyst Wireless Gateway CG113 Series: Simple-to-deploy wireless router designed to empower the remote workforce to collaborate like never before. Flexible Wi-Fi 6 and cellular failover deliver a consistent application experience with enterprise Wi-Fi connectivity and security extended to the remote workforce. A centralized dashboard automates deployment and management in an agile manner. A small and silent form factor accelerates the transition to the hybrid workforce where and when it is needed. The Catalyst Wireless Gateway can either be used as a standalone wireless home router or integrated with Catalyst SD-WAN RA.
● A consistent and optimized application experience with seamless connectivity to cloud and SaaS applications.
● Automated deployment, configuration, and management of hybrid work routing solutions with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
● An integrated cloud-delivered SASE architecture for unified security policy and compliance across the hybrid workforce.
● Scalable hardware or software endpoint options that accelerate the transition to hybrid work where and when it is needed, in a simple and agile manner.
● The ability to leverage existing branch infrastructure, thereby lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while extending enterprise-grade SD-WAN in a flexible and distributed manner.
● End-to-end micro- and macro-segmentation.
● A highly scalable and distributed architecture, eliminating single points of failure in the network.
● Scalability: Enables large-scale distributed deployment across Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN devices within the SD-WAN fabric.
● Improved user experience: Connects a remote worker to the closest SD-WAN-RA headend, decreasing latency and improving the overall user application experience.
● Flexibility: Supports both Cisco and third-party software and hardware remote-access clients.
● Security: Supports IKEv2/IPsec-based remote-access VPN. Full integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) or any third-party AAA/RADIUS server for identity-based policy.
● Centralized management and monitoring: Eliminates the need to have multiple management consoles and unifies both SD-WAN and remote-access configuration and monitoring into a single highly visualized dashboard (SD-WAN Manager).
Type of router and features |
Model or description |
Catalyst SD-WAN Remote Access |
Catalyst SD-WAN RA enables Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN devices to provide remote-access headend functionality, managed through SD-WAN Manager. Available in Cisco IOS XE Release 17.6.1 and later. |
Cisco Catalyst Wireless Gateway |
CG113-W6x, CG113-4GW6x |
Cisco ISR |
C1131-8PWx, C1131X-8PWx |
● Catalyst SD-WAN RA: Integrates the ability to terminate remote-access VPN tunnels directly onto the nearest SD-WAN edge device and delivers enterprise-grade SD-WAN benefits to the remote workforce. This solution supports flexible software-based endpoint clients (such as Cisco AnyConnect, Windows, or macOS-based native IKEv2 clients) and hardware-based endpoints (such as the Catalyst Wireless Gateway CG113 Series or Cisco IOS XE routers).
● Cisco Catalyst Wireless Gateway CG113 Series: Simple-to-deploy wireless router with Wi-Fi 6 and cellular failover. This solution extends enterprise Wi-Fi connectivity and security to the home user with plug-and-play zero-touch orchestration, configuration, and monitoring using a centralized dashboard (through SD-WAN Manager.) This solution can be used in a standalone deployment or can be integrated with the SD-WAN RA solution.