From the course: Implementing Cisco Software-Defined Wan (SD-WAN) for your Enterprise and Cloud

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Edge architecture

Edge architecture

- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to talk about the WAN edge router architecture. Now to start with, every single device, including your vBond, vManage, and vSmarts, is going to be required to identify the organizational name, the system IP, and the site ID. Now the organizational name will be globally unique amongst all Cisco customers. There'll never be another network deployed with the same organizational name. Even if you wanted to have two different fabrics, each fabric would have its each organizational name, and that's just something to be kind of cognizant of. Now building upon that, we'll also dive into the next stage, which is going to be the VPN0 interfaces, which is where your WAN is tied to. Now within each interface, we will have a TLOC for each transport, and this is so that we know where to decapsulate or encapsulate, encrypt, decrypt, depending upon your preference of terminology, those VPN tunnels, where are they going to terminate? So we need to know where…

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