Chapter 23

Fabric Technologies

This chapter covers the following subjects:

  • Software-Defined Access (SD-Access): This section defines the benefits of SD-Access over traditional campus networks as well as the components and features of the Cisco SD-Access solution, including the nodes, fabric control plane, and data plane.

  • Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN): This section defines the benefits of SD-WAN over traditional WANs as well as the components and features of the Cisco SD-WAN solution, including the orchestration plane, management plane, control plane, and data plane.

A fabric network is an overlay network (virtual network [VN]) built over an underlay network (physical network) using overlay tunneling technologies such as VXLAN. Fabric networks ...

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