Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for Colocation Solution
As more applications move to the cloud, the traditional approach of backhauling traffic over expensive WAN circuits to a data center is no longer relevant. The conventional WAN infrastructure was not designed for accessing applications in the cloud. The infrastructure is expensive and introduces unnecessary latency that degrades the experience.
Network architects are reevaluating the design of the WANs to achieve the following:
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Support a cloud transition.
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Reduce network costs.
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Increase the visibility and manageability of the cloud traffic.
The architects are turning to Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) fabric to take advantage of inexpensive broadband Internet services and to route intelligently a trusted SaaS cloud-bound traffic directly from remote branches.
With the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for Colocation solution built specifically for colocation facilities, the solution routes the traffic to the best-permissible path from branches and remote workers to where all applications are hosted. The solution also allows distributed enterprises to have an alternative to enabling direct internet access at the branch and enhance their connectivity to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.
The solution provides enterprises with multiple distributed branch offices that are clustered around major cities or spread over several countries the ability to regionalize the routing services in colocation facilities. Reason being, these facilities are physically closer to the branches and can host the cloud resources that the enterprise needs to access. So, essentially by distributing a virtual Cisco SD-WAN over a regional architecture of colocation centers, the processing power is brought to the cloud edge.
The following image shows how you can aggregate the access to the multicloud applications from multiple branches to regional colocation facilities.
The solution can serve four specific types of enterprises:
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Multinational companies that cannot use direct internet connections to the cloud and SaaS platforms due to security restrictions and privacy regulations.
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Partners and vendors without Cisco SD-WAN but still need connectivity to their customers. They do not want to install SD-WAN routing appliances in their site.
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Global organizations with geographically distributed branch offices that require high bandwidth, optimum application performance, and granular security.
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Remote access that need secure VPN connections to an enterprise over inexpensive direct internet links.
The Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for Colocation solution can be hosted within certain colocation facilities by a colocation IaaS provider. You can select the colocation provider that meets your needs in a region on a regional basis as long as it supports the necessary components.