- Available as hardware, software and cloud functions.
- Sit at geographically disparate locations.
- Push data across WAN.
- Function as normal routers and SD-WAN Overlay routers.
- ie. OMP, Localized and Centralized policies.
- Each router sets up DTLS tunnel to each vEdge in the SDWAN Fabric.
- Forms OMP adjacencies over DTLS tunnels to vSmarts for routing information.
- Sets up standard IPSEC tunnels to other SD-WAN routers.
- vEdge
- Viptela platform running Viptela Software.
- cEdge
- Viptela software running alongside Cisco IOS-XE.
- Operates on ISR, ASR1k, CSR, CSRV, and ISRv.