Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN)

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

Using Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), businesses can deliver an uncompromised experience, security, and reliability to branch offices over any connection. Cisco IWAN simplifies WAN design, improves network responsiveness, and accelerates deployment of new services. Now, there’s an authoritative single-source guide to Cisco IWAN: all you need to understand it, design it, and deploy it for maximum value.

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

to troubleshooting and optimization. They offer extensive practical guidance on migrating to IWAN from your existing WAN infrastructure.

This guide will be indispensable for all experienced network professionals who support WANs, are deploying Cisco IWAN solutions, or use related technologies such as DMVPN or PfR.

Deploy Hybrid WAN connectivity to increase WAN capacity and improve application performanceOverlay DMVPN on WAN transport to simplify operations, gain transport independence, and improve VPN scalabilitySecure DMVPN tunnels and IWAN routersUse Application Recognition to support QoS, Performance Routing (PfR), and application visibilityImprove application delivery and WAN efficiency via PfRMonitor hub, transit, and branch sites, traffic classes, and channelsAdd application-level visibility and per-application monitoring to IWAN routersOvercome latency and bandwidth inefficiencies that limit application performanceUse Cisco WAAS to customize each location’s optimizations, application accelerations, and virtualizationSmoothly integrate Cisco WAAS into branch office network infrastructureEnsure appropriate WAN application responsiveness and experienceImprove SaaS application performance with Direct Internet Access (DIA)Perform pre-migration tasks, and prepare your current WAN for IWANMigrate current point-to-point and multipoint technologies to IWAN