Chapter 3. Control Plane and Data Plane Operations

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Control Plane Operations: This section covers the Overlay Management Protocol (OMP) and how the three routing updates (TLOC, OMP route, and service routes) build the control plane.

  • Data Plane Operations: This section covers how the data plane is established and secured, along with how network address translation (NAT) interacts with overlay provisioning.

As discussed in Chapter 2, “Cisco SD-WAN Components,” four different planes make up the Cisco SD-WAN solution, as illustrated in Figure 3-1 and described in the list that follows:

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