The Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms are 5G-ready cloud edge platforms designed for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), multilayer security, and cloud-native agility to accelerate your journey to cloud. The 8200 Series is well suited for small and medium-sized enterprise branch offices at optimal price/performance with integrated SD-WAN services. C8200-1N-4T for the small to medium-sized branch with requirements for higher throughput, scale, and service flexibility. C8200L-1N-4T is for the small branch with SASE-compliant, cloud-based security requirements.

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Overall platform benefits

• ● Accelerated services with Cisco Software-Defined WAN

Cisco SD-WAN is a set of intelligent software services that allow you to connect users, devices, and branch office locations reliably and securely across a diverse set of WAN transport links. The Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Family can dynamically route traffic across the best link based on up-to-the-minute application and network conditions for great application experiences. With Cisco SD-WAN you get tight control over application performance, bandwidth usage, data privacy, and availability of your WAN links. This control is critical as branches conduct greater volumes of mission-critical business using both on-premises and cloud controllers.

• ● Application performance optimization

Ensure that SD-WAN networks meet Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and maintain strong performance, even if network problems occur. With branch multi-cloud access, you can accelerate your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications with a simple template push from the SD-WAN controller. Features such as TCP optimization, Forward Error Correction (FEC), and packet duplication enhance application performance for a better user experience.

• ● Multilayer security

You can now move your traditional and complex WAN networks into an agile, software-defined WAN with integrated security. The Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms connect branch offices to the internet and cloud with industry-leading protection against major web attacks. Secure Direct Internet Access (DIA) from the branches helps optimize branch workloads for improved performance, specifically for cloud-hosted applications. At the same time, secure DIA helps ensure that your branch is protected from external threats.

• ● Cloud-native agility with a programmable software architecture

Cisco continues to offer a feature-rich traditional Cisco IOS XE routing stack on the Catalyst 8200 Series. IP routing, IPsec, QoS, firewall, NAT, Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Flexible NetFlow (FNF), and many other features are part of Cisco IOS XE, a fully programmable software architecture with API support and a wide variety of protocols and configurations. With an integrated software image and a single binary file, you can now choose between Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN and Cisco IOS XE. And you can easily move from one to the other when you choose to do so.

• ● 5G-ready

The Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms are built for future 5G networks. With the higher throughputs from Cat18 LTE and 5G, wireless WAN solutions are becoming feasible options for primary transport use cases. These platforms will support both integrated pluggable modules as well as external cellular gateways with Cat18 LTE and 5G capability for improved throughput that addresses those use cases. Either an integrated or external gateway can be chosen based on a specific branchs cellular coverage.

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