SD-WANCatalyst SD-WAN
Cloud-agnostic SD-WAN with integrated multilayer security on a SASE architecture.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN connects any user to any application with integrated multicloud, security, predictive operations, and enhanced visibility — all on a SASE-enabled architecture. It simplifies operations with automated provisioning and unified policy from the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, and its native integration with Cisco Umbrella converges networking and security. Faltrox designs, secures, and operates the fabric.
Overview
What Catalyst SD-WAN is
Multicloud application strategies and hybrid work have made traditional WAN architecture untenable — distributed, fragmented, and hard to secure consistently. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN transforms the WAN by connecting data centres, campuses, branches, colocation, cloud, and remote workers over an intelligent overlay (using the Overlay Management Protocol), delivering cloud-agnostic connectivity that is simpler to manage and lowers operational cost.
It offers integrated security — full-stack multilayer capabilities on-premises and in the cloud — with real-time threat protection where it is needed, and native integration with cloud-delivered Cisco Umbrella to accelerate the move to SASE. The Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) gives a single, highly visual dashboard for centralised configuration, management, and monitoring across the whole fabric, with automated provisioning and unified policy. Faltrox designs the overlay, applies segmentation and security, and operates the fabric.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
Any User, Any Application
Connects data centres, campuses, branches, cloud, and remote workers over one overlay.
Multicloud
Cloud-agnostic connectivity optimises application performance across multiple clouds.
Integrated Security
Full-stack multilayer security on-premises and in the cloud, with real-time threat protection.
SASE Architecture
Native Cisco Umbrella integration converges networking and security into SASE.
Predictive Operations
Enhanced visibility and predictive operations across the digital service delivery chain.
Distributed Workforce
Consistent, secure connectivity for branches, remote workers, and hybrid work.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
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Overlay
Catalyst SD-WAN applies the Overlay Management Protocol to connect all sites, cloud, and users over any transport.
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Provision
Automated provisioning and zero-touch onboarding bring sites into the fabric with unified policy from SD-WAN Manager.
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Secure
Full-stack multilayer security on-premises and in the cloud, with native Umbrella integration, protects traffic in real time.
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Optimise
Application-aware routing and multicloud optimisation deliver consistent performance across distributed locations.
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Operate
Faltrox designs and manages the overlay, policy, and security, monitoring the fabric through SD-WAN Manager.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Cloud-Agnostic Overlay
The Overlay Management Protocol connects sites, cloud, and users over any underlying transport.
SD-WAN Manager
A single highly visual dashboard for centralised configuration, management, and monitoring of the whole fabric.
Integrated Multilayer Security
Full-stack security on-premises and in the cloud delivers real-time threat protection where needed.
Native Umbrella Integration
Converges networking and cloud-delivered security to accelerate the transition to SASE.
Automated Provisioning
Zero-touch onboarding and unified policy simplify operations and speed changes.
Multicloud Optimisation
Application-aware routing optimises performance across multiple SaaS and IaaS clouds.
Predictive Operations
Enhanced visibility and predictive operations across the entire service-delivery chain.
Unified Policy
Consistent security and networking policy applied across every site from one place.
Works with
Part of the platform
Cisco products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01How does Catalyst SD-WAN relate to SASE?
It is the networking foundation of SASE. Its native integration with cloud-delivered Cisco Umbrella converges networking and security, so branches connecting to SaaS, IaaS, data centres, or the internet get security applied from the cloud — the essence of a SASE-enabled architecture.
02What runs the SD-WAN — the software or the hardware?
The software (Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN) runs on the Catalyst SD-WAN Edge Platforms — the Catalyst 8000 and ISR routers. Catalyst SD-WAN is the overall solution and fabric; the edge platforms are the physical/virtual devices that terminate it. Faltrox designs both together.
03How is the whole fabric managed?
Through Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) — a single highly visual dashboard for centralised configuration, management, operation, and monitoring across every site, with automated provisioning and unified policy.
04Does it include security or is that separate?
It includes integrated full-stack multilayer security both on-premises and in the cloud, with real-time threat protection, plus native Umbrella integration. Security is part of the fabric rather than a bolt-on.
05How does Faltrox deliver it?
We design the overlay and segmentation, apply the integrated and cloud-delivered security, onboard sites, and operate and monitor the fabric through SD-WAN Manager — delivering a secure, managed WAN across your whole estate.
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Secure what’s next.
Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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