Transform Your Infrastructure: The Line to Performance

Discover a new level of networking

Provide exceptional application experiences in networking, security, and collaboration by transforming your infrastructure with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. Explore features like Cloud OnRamp for Multicloud, and seamless integrations with Azure Virtual WAN and Microsoft Sentinel. Find opportunities to securely connect cloud environments, enable hybrid work, get visibility into more threats, detect more attacks, and respond quickly.

Key Capabilities:

• Connect thousands of global sites
• Accommodate rapid growth
• Adopt consistent policies for users at any branch
• Facilitate safe, flexible, efficient hybrid work
• Migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud seamlessly
• Enable customers and associates
• Visualize your network fabric
• Industrial security

Explore Cisco's solutions: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Explainer, Microsoft Sentinel Explainer, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp Explainer.

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Case Study: Retail

Need: The retailer required a single venue to oversee multiple lines of new business.

Challenge: This retailer needed a cost-effective way to accommodate the rapid growth of its business, and the resulting pressure on its network. With 10,000 sites around Australia, the company was experiencing average speeds of 128Kbps, which were unable to keep up with teams' daily routines and expansion goals.

Insight: 37% of enterprise architects consider WAN complexity their top challenge.

Solution: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

The secure, cloud-scale architecture of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN met the retailer's needs. It offers multi-tenancy, multi-region fabric support, and flexibility in on-premises or cloud-delivered deployments. It simplifies WAN to handle growth with ease, optimizing application performance, communication, and collaboration.

Key Features:

• Centralized Management: A single platform for overseeing multiple mediums, including a firewall across all sites, simplifying management even for tens of thousands of locations.
• Unified Experiences: Securely extend your network fabric for site-to-cloud, site-to-application, and site-to-site connectivity, supporting hybrid environments.

Outcome:

Greater productivity: Secure, cloud-scale architecture enabled seamless deployment. The retailer successfully managed distributed connections across its sites with automation, multicloud capabilities, analytics, and predictivity. Intelligent operations improved the customer journey, associate experience, and streamlined distribution.

• Categorize sites
• Establish templates
• Define global policies
• Enable the right security architecture

Results: 38% reduction in 5-year total costs of operations.

Learn more about simplifying the network fabric: Explore Retail.

Case Study: Manufacturing

Requirements: Hybrid work must be safe, flexible, and efficient.

Challenge: Remote work in manufacturing is complicated, requiring always-on production and not always allowing off-site work. Cloud plays a pivotal role in shaping the industry's landscape, facilitating core functions and encouraging innovation.

Insight: 41% cited providing secure access to applications distributed across multiple clouds is a top challenge.

Solution: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with Microsoft Sentinel integration.

Migration made easy: Migrating services from on-prem to Microsoft Azure cloud was simplified with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN's integration with Azure Virtual WAN, supporting Azure connectivity with modern transit architecture.

Microsoft Sentinel: Shields distributed operations, providing visibility and control over suspicious traffic, policy violations, and corrupt devices.

Outcomes:

• Tight integration and instant scalability: Cisco security portfolio solutions seamlessly integrate to harness multicloud power, delivering flexibility, security, scalability, improved application experiences, and data insights.
• Level up with improved security: Microsoft Sentinel provides intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence (SIEM and SOAR).
• Reduce TCO with simplified management: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN's Cloud OnRamp with Azure Virtual WAN is an automated, cost-effective solution with built-in features, centralized management, and flexible licensing.

Learn more about centralized management: Explore Retail.

Case Study: Finance

Challenge: Financial organizations operating hundreds of branches globally must consistently meet special requirements to protect sensitive data.

Need: Standardization and security, meaning consistent policy implementation and end-to-end connectivity.

Solution: Integration for a stronger network.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN edge routers connect to SD-Access sites across the network fabric, standardizing site-level fabric traffic rules and role-based user access. Integration with Microsoft Sentinel further strengthens security.

Comprehensive solutions from Microsoft Sentinel:

1. Intelligent security analytics
2. Threat intelligence integration
3. Orchestration and automation

Outcomes:

• Detect, respond, and mitigate: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Microsoft Sentinel provide capabilities to detect, respond to, and mitigate a wide range of security threats by offering enhanced visibility into the network and its connected devices.
• Complete branch security: Provide WAN access and meet compliance demands on site, while offering constant protection against cyber threats across branches and multicloud environments.
• Application performance and multicloud access: Catalyst SD-WAN optimizes workloads and improves application performance, resulting in efficient and cost-effective use. Unified oversight makes it easier to meet operational needs, such as adding branches to the cloud or extending security protocols across applications.

Key Benefits:

• Maintain the highest service-level agreements (SLAs) and optimal performance.
• Connect branches and a remote workforce to multicloud applications with unified visibility and management.

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Learn more about seamless site connectivity: Explore Retail.

Strengthen your cloud infrastructure

Give your users quality, secure experiences, and centralize the way you manage infrastructure.

Insight: 95% of enterprises are using or expect to use SD-WAN within 24 months.

Benefits:

• Do more, faster, while mitigating risk
• Streamline deployment
• Converge networking and security to reduce complexity
• Enhance agility and improve user experiences

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Customers looking to migrate their workloads to Azure can seamlessly connect from branches, campuses, or data centers with Cisco's Catalyst 8000 family and can continue to leverage trusted partners, all while optimizing their MACC spending. Cisco's active participation underscores a joint commitment to driving agility in shared customer networks and hybrid environments, solidifying the Microsoft and Cisco partnership.

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