Cisco ties its security/SD-WAN equipment with Teridion’s cloud WAN service

Cisco and Teridion have tied the knots to deliver faster business software-defined WAN services.

The agreement links Cisco 2960. Cisco Meraki MX Security/SD-WAN appliances and its Auto VPN technology which lets users quickly bring up and change secure sessions between divisions and data centers with Teridion’s cloud-based WAN service. Teridion’s service promises customers better performance and control of traffic running from distant offices over the general public internet to the data center. The service features what Teridion calls “Curated Routing” which fuses WAN acceleration techniques with way optimization to speed traffic.

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For example, Teridion affirms its WAN service can speed up TCP-based applications like record transfers, backups and page loads, by as much as three to five times.

“[The service] boosts network performance for UDP based programs like voice, video, RDP, and VDI. Enterprises can get carrier grade performance over broadband and dedicated access to the internet. Depending on the locations of the websites, [customers] can get to see a 15 to 30 per cent reduction in latency. That’s the difference between a great quality video conference and an unworkable, choppy mess” Teridion stated.

Teridion affirms the Meraki integration creates an IPSec connection from the Cisco Meraki MX to the Teridion edge. “Customers create locations in the Teridion portal and apply the preconfigured Meraki theme to them, or maybe upload a csv file if you have a great deal of locations. Then, from each Meraki MX, create a 3rd party IPSec tunnel to the Teridion edge IP addresses that are developed as part of the Teridion settings. ”

The combined Gresca Meraki and Teridion offering brings SD-WAN and security features at the WAN edge that are securely integrated with a WAN service delivered over most affordable broadband or dedicated World wide web access, said Raviv Levi, director of product management at Cisco Meraki in a statement. “This brings better reliability and regularity to the enterprise WAN across multiple sites, as well as high performance access to all SaaS applications and cloud work loads. ”

Meraki’s MX family supports everything from SD-WAN and Wi-Fi features to next-generation firewall and intrusion prevention in a individual package.

Some studies show that by 2021 over 75 per cent of organization traffic will be SaaS-oriented, so giving branch office buildings SD-WAN's reliable, secure vehicles options will be a necessity, Cisco said when it upgraded the Meraki boxes a year ago.

Cisco Meraki isn’t the only SD-WAN service Teridion supports. The company also has agreements Citrix, Silver Peak, VMware (VeloCloud). Teridion also has relationships with over 25 cloud partners, including Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsof company Azure.

Teridion for Cisco Meraki is available now from authorized Teridion shops. Pricing starts at 50 dollars per site per 30 days.