Cisco Viptela®

Lumen® SD‑WAN with  Cisco Viptela®

Centralize control and simplify network management with Cisco Viptela® SD‑WAN architecture.

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Overview

Lumen® SD‑WAN with Cisco Viptela® provides advanced routing, segmentation and security capabilities for interconnecting complex enterprise networks with centralized policy and orchestration.

Network service insertion ‑ consolidate network services at centralized locations and route traffic with simple policy changes.
End‑to‑end network segmentation ‑ secure sensitive traffic among different lines of business with end‑to‑end segmentation. Rapidly onboard partners over any transport in enterprises with a dynamic partner ecosystem.
Encryption at scale ‑ provide powerful encryption capabilities using automated key management and device authentication to secure nearly any infrastructure. Transport‑agnostic VPNs provide a secure IP fabric over any underlying transport.

Common deployment options

Broadband + LTE, which is ideal for low‑priority branches or remote locations
Dual broadband, which is ideal for networks without MPLS, at branch locations or data centers
MPLS + dedicated internet, which is ideal for sites with mission‑critical applications, typically data centers and/or headquarters

Components 

vSmart Controller
- Virtual appliance
- Runs on VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor
- Establishes secure Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) connections to each vEdge router in the network
- Overlay Management Protocol (OMP) to share routes, security and policy info
vEdge Routers
- Uses preinstalled security credentials to automatically authenticate each new vEdge device before it joins the network
- Centralized policy engine in the vSmart controller provides rich inbound and outbound policy constructs to manipulate routing information, access control, segmentation, extranets and service chaining
- Full‑featured IP routers perform standard functions such as OSPF, BGP, QoS, ACLs, and routing policies
- Integrated enterprise firewall functionality
- Automatically establishes secure DTLS sessions with the vSmart controller and standard IPsec sessions with other vEdge routers
- vEdge 100 router includes tabletop and 1RU sizes and 100 Mbps encryption capacity
- vEdge 1000 router includes half‑width and 1RU sizes and 1 Gbps encryption capacity
- vEdge 2000 router includes full‑widths and 1RU and 10 Gbps encryption capacity
vBond Orchestrator
- Virtual appliance enabling configuration management and monitoring of the solution
- Runs on VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor with a minimum of two vCPUs and 4GB of memory
- Minimum of two vCPUs and 8GB of memory
vManage Network Configuration and Monitoring System
- Virtual appliance enabling configuration management and monitoring of the solution
- Runs on VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor with a minimum of two vCPUs and 8GB of memory
- Centralized policy and distributed enforcement including Overlay Management
- Protocol to eliminate bottlenecks and enable quick turnaround in network changes
- Automated secure bringup including Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip with signed certificate to help ensure automated authentication of vEdge routers joining the network
- Integrated enterprise firewall including user‑based security policies and segmentation, IPsec, VPN, NAT and ACLs standard to enhance security and simplify infrastructure management
- Encrypted control and data traffic that can scale to multiple tens of thousands of network endpoints and 100K+ routes while still providing multipoint security
- Scale‑out architecture with redundancy that can withstand multiple failures in the overlay network for both the control and data plane
- End‑to‑end network segmentation that can be rapidly enabled without additional control plane protocols to protect the network from internal and external threats

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Intelligent routing and control

Forwarding paths
2 or more
SD-WAN cloud instance support

SD-WAN throughput
Up to 10 Gbps
Wi-Fi
Limited availability
Enterprise firewall

Data analytics

Customer self-service

Global availability

Locations supported
No minimum
Deployment
On-premises Cloud or data center
Threat management

Support and service options

Lumen offers multiple ways for you to get support for SD-WAN. Our Customer Care team is ready to assist 24/7. 

By partnering with Lumen for your SD‑WAN solution, you get all its benefits without the overhead of managing, configuring and provisioning on a manual basis. You get the control without the hassles.  