Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN)

The entire help guide to Cisco® IWAN: features, benefits, planning, and deployment

Using Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), companies delivers an uncompromised experience, security, and reliability to branch offices over any connection. Cisco IWAN simplifies WAN design, improves network responsiveness, and accelerates deployment of recent services. Now, there’s an authoritative single-source help guide to Cisco IWAN: all that you should comprehend it, set it up, and deploy it for optimum value.

In Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), leading Cisco experts cover all key IWAN technologies and components, addressing issues varying from visibility and provisioning

to troubleshooting and optimization. They provide extensive practical assistance with moving to IWAN out of your existing WAN infrastructure.

This informative guide is going to be indispensable for those experienced network experts who support WANs, are deploying Cisco IWAN solutions, or use related technologies for example DMVPN or PfR.

• Deploy Hybrid WAN connectivity to improve WAN capacity and improve application performance
• Overlay DMVPN on WAN transport to simplify operations, gain transport independence, and improve Virtual private network scalability
• Secure DMVPN tunnels and IWAN routers
• Use Application Recognition to aid QoS, Performance Routing (PfR), and application visibility
• Improve application delivery and WAN efficiency via PfR
• Monitor hub, transit, and branch sites, traffic classes, and channels
• Add application-level visibility and per-application monitoring to IWAN routers
• Overcome latency and bandwidth inefficiencies to limit application performance
• Use Cisco WAAS to personalize each location’s optimizations, application accelerations, and virtualization
• Easily integrate Cisco WAAS into branch office network infrastructure
• Ensure appropriate WAN application responsiveness and experience
• Improve SaaS application performance with Direct Access To The Internet (DIA)
• Perform pre-migration tasks, and make preparations your present WAN for IWAN
• Migrate current point-to-point and multipoint technologies to IWAN