{"id":15113,"date":"2020-11-01T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=15113"},"modified":"2025-04-18T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:21:25","slug":"cisco-launches-new-wan-edge-platform-to-boost-secure-cloud-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/cisco-launches-new-wan-edge-platform-to-boost-secure-cloud-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco launches new WAN edge platform to boost secure cloud adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cisco announced its new Wide Area <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/networking-2\/\">Networking<\/a> (WAN) edge platform to help customers accelerate cloud adoption and deliver secure\u00a0and automated connectivity to applications across cloud, data center, and edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A foundational piece of Cisco\u2019s intent-based <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/networking-2\/\">networking <\/a>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\u00a0informed decisions to optimize user experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.\u00a0\u00a0These challenges are restricting agility and the ability to deliver secure, connected experiences. The new Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platform transforms the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/wan\/\">WAN <\/a>edge, helping customers be more agile by delivering automated and secure connectivity to applications across cloud, data center and edge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the proliferation of applications, workloads and services becoming more distributed across the edge-cloud continuum, organizations are facing new realities at the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/wan\/\">WAN <\/a>edge,\u201d said Osama Al-Zoubi, Cisco CTO for Middle East and Africa. \u201cIn building secure multicloud access architectures, IT organizations need the agility to change course and scale quickly along with the needs of business.\u00a0\u00a0The 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> converges cloud-managed <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> and cloud-delivered security into one solution. For customers requiring an on-premises solution, full-stack <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> security is supported.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Catalyst 8000 family are built to address today\u2019s most pressing WAN edge issues, and flexible enough to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. Three models are available, designed for multiple use cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As a high-performance <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> solution, the <strong>Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platform\u00a0<\/strong>is ideal for data center, colocation, and aggregation sites, and features the industry\u2019s highest performing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> offering with integrated 40G and 100G Ethernet ports in a compact single rack unit form factor. It is powered by Cisco\u2019s third-generation Quantum Flow Processor, a proprietary Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) built to provide high performance, pervasive security and rich network services.<\/li><li>The <strong>Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platform\u00a0<\/strong>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> service performance than the current Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs).<\/li><li>The <strong>Catalyst 8000V<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Edge Software<\/strong> delivers all the same capabilities in software. It can be deployed in the cloud or virtualized on a platform such as Cisco\u2019s 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Wireless mobility via cellular is becoming critical in modern <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/wan\/\">WANs<\/a>, and Cisco is enabling customers to easily migrate to an Advanced 4G LTE and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/wan\/\">5G wireless WAN<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <strong>Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateway<\/strong> helps customers deploy wireless WAN without changes to existing infrastructure.\u00a0\u00a0It elevates cellular to a primary <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> link option with gigabit connectivity to any cloud or location.\u00a0\u00a0The initial release supports Advanced 4G LTE CAT 18 speeds, with 5G versions coming soon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cisco Catalyst 8300 and 8500 series and Cisco Cellular Catalyst Gateways are available with the Cisco Catalyst 8000v planned for availability in December 2020.\u00a0\u00a0All are delivered through a flexible subscription-based offer, so customers have continuous access to Cisco innovations\u00a0as they are added to the subscription.\u00a0\u00a0To learn more, join us for Business Continuity to Resiliency: IT Inn\u00a0ovations to Power IT Agility where Cisco engineering leaders and our customers will share perspectives regarding strategies and innovations that will enable IT teams to reimagine their organization&#8217;s future of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new platform allows customers to adopt cloud solutions at their own pace. 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