Cloud OnRamp for Multicloud: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect

From Cisco IOS XE Release 17.5 and Cisco vManage Release 20.5, you can instantiate a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN edge device within the fabric of a Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) provider and connect a branch location to this edge device through the SD-WAN fabric. From this edge device, you can create software-defined interconnects to other Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN edge devices in the SDCI provider fabric, or to public or private clouds. Thus, the edge devices in the SDCI provider fabric serve as Interconnect Gateways.

Figure 1. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud Interconnects to link SD-WAN branches and SD-WAN branches to Cloud

The software-defined interconnects link branch locations, or link branch locations to cloud service providers. The interconnects provide dedicated private Layer 2 connectivity with SLA-backed assured performance bandwidth and 99.999% availability. Short haul interconnects link branch locations or a branch location and a cloud onRamp in the same region. Long haul interconnects link branch locations in different regions, or a branch location in one region to a cloud onRamp in another region.

Cisco SD-WAN Manager provides a single UI portal through which you can instantiate the edge device in the SDCI fabric and create the software-defined interconnects.