Software-Defined Architecture

• Software-Defined Architecture (SDA) is an overarching concept that encompasses things like SDN, SD-WAN, etc.
  • SD-WAN is Cisco's solution for automating WANs
  • SD-Access is Cisco's solution for automating LANs
• Broadly, is the idea of decoupling the Management and Control planes from the Hardware/Data planes

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OSI or TCP/IP Layer

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