In today's unpredictable ever-changing world, it's more important than ever your organization needs to make better more secure connections as more and more workforces become remote and applications move to the cloud. The cisco catalyst 8000 edge platforms family designed for an intent based network. The SD-WAN ready catalyst 8000 means a fully connected user experience with networking and security combined and the flexibility to deploy any service on premise or in the cloud. It provides better optimization for hybrid and multi-cloud applications agility, visibility and analytics to make informed decisions even across cloud data center and edge locations. But most importantly it means your organization will stay connected no matter where you are in the world, even though the rest of the world will continue to change all around it. This series switches provides advanced features such as industry-leading performance and automation for SD-WAN, multi-cloud onramp, 5G Wireless WAN and SASE architectures.
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An open and fully programmable software architecture with API support provides automation at scale to achieve zero-touch IT capabilities while migrating workloads to the cloud and enables a distributed analytics architecture with support for container-based apps and third-party ecosystem partners. In the case of Multi-cloud connectivity, this family would Support a diverse set of container-based applications and third-party cloud ecosystem partners. Also these switches will protect the network with advanced, multilayered security providing application-aware enterprise firewall, IPS, URL filter, layer 2 encryption, and continuous DNS monitoring. All above features would be activated after registration with the Cisco Catalyst 8000 license on Cisco smart software management website.
The Cisco Catalyst 8000 switches family consists of three models: The Cisco Catalyst 8200, the Cisco Catalyst 8200 uCPE, the Cisco Catalyst 8300, the Cisco Catalyst 8500, the Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software and the Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software.
