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Cisco bolsters edge networking family with expanded SD-WAN, security options Tech giant adds four boxes to Catalyst 8000 Edge family and expands upgrade path for ISR/ASR customers Credit: Dreamstime Cisco has expanded its Catalyst 8000 Edge Platform family to offer enterprise edge customers more secure SD-WAN and cloud resource access options. The Cisco Catalyst 8000 edge router collection currently includes three models: the high-end 8500 for data-centre or colocation customers, the 8300 for branch users, and the software-based 8000 for virtual environments. Feature support inc...

Cisco is growing its Catalyst 8000 Edge and cellular gateway product line to grant more flexibility to businesses with remote users. The extended product line includes a new 5G Cellular gateway, a virtual CPE Edge device that can host Cisco or third-party virtual network functions, and two new Catalyst 8500 and 8200 branch products, the tech giant revealed Tuesday. Cisco in October first unveiled the brand-new Catalyst 8000 product line, including the Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platform, the Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platform, Catalyst 8000V Edge Software, and the Catalyst Cellular Gateway ser...

Among the four new models is a low-end box – the Cisco Catalyst 8500L – that's aimed at entry-level 1G/10G aggregation use cases, Cisco stated. The 1RU form factor 8500L is powered by 12 x86 cores and features up to 64GB memory to support secure connectivity for thousands of remote sites and millions of stateful NAT and firewall sessions, wrote Archana Khetan, senior director of product management for Enterprise Routing and SD-WAN Infrastructure at Cisco, in a blog about the new boxes.   Businesses find that establishing aggregation sites at either core locations or colocations helps the...