Cisco and AT&T Forge Partnership for Managed SD-WAN

AT&T has expanded its SD-WAN offering with a new service, based on Cisco technology, that includes natively integrated security capabilities to provide threat protection for branch offices.

The overall SD-WAN offering includes Cisco’s ISR and ASR routers and Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) managed through a cloud-based dashboard. Integrated security features include an application-aware enterprise firewall, intrusion prevention, URL filtering and advanced malware protection. 

“Successful network and digital transformation requires effective security management,” said Mo Katibeh, EVP and Chief Product & Platform Officer at AT&T Business. “AT&T SD-WAN with Cisco combines connectivity, SD-WAN and security, which allows businesses to expand and scale without worrying about the security of their branch locations.”

“As customers move their workloads to multiple clouds, they require fast, highly secure access to applications hosted anywhere, whether applications are hosted in the datacenter, public cloud or a private SaaS platform,” said Ravi Chandrasekaran, SVP of Cisco’s Intent-Based Networking Group.  “The new AT&T managed service based on Cisco Secure SD-WAN addresses this by providing businesses with the application optimization, integrated security and consistent intent-based networking policies for their hybrid, multicloud environments.”

AT&T can simplify the migration to SD-WAN by combining SD-WAN with AT&T WAN options, including AT&T Virtual Private Network MPLS service, Dedicated or Shared Internet or LTE.

Channel Impact^®
Enterprises often turn to managed service providers to reduce the burden of provisioning, managing and troubleshooting services. Managed SD-WAN can help to lower costs, offer highly secure and direct access to private or public clouds, support multiple types of connectivity and improve control.