India, Oct. 20 -- the Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms and Catalyst Cellular Gateway.

Cisco has given its ISR and ASR routers a refresh with the Catalyst 8000 series to provide connectivity and security features in the data center, branch and edge.

Brandon Butler, Senior Research Analyst of Network Infrastructure for IDC, says this is an important update to the ASR and ISR group of routers at a time when enterprises increasingly need to efficiently connect to the cloud and also access managed SD-WAN services.

"If you think about what enterprises are trying to do with their wide area networks today, there's an expanded group of challenges in terms of efficiently connecting to the cloud and enabling SD-WAN management," says Butler. "These ne...