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Overview
We have expertise in providing Cisco consultancy services that targets auditing your current network and implementing updates. This improves operational performance and ensures your data is secured, and your systems are compliant.
We help organisations to deploy Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions, such as Cisco DNA. Besides, our team has extensive experience in integrating Cisco DNA Center with third-party systems.
We are pleased to launch pre-scoped Cisco Consulting Packages. These are ready-made solutions, tailored to ensure efficiency and cost containment.

SDWAN Package - Starter
The SDWAN Starter Package includes consultancy support, documentation, implementation, and training for internal Administrators within a single organic consultancy package.
- ✓This package is designed to have a logical activity flow to ensure consistent results each time to install, configure, test and go live with your SDA/DNA solution.
- ✓We help organisations to deploy Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions, such as Cisco DNA. Besides, our team has extensive experience in integrating Cisco DNA Center with third-party systems.
- ✓At project completion, we will handover SDA/DNA solution to your staff (Knowledge transfer session included) or you can let Insoft Services support you with our Managed Services Solution.

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Appliances Applicable
IT Infrastructure Devices
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportThe following items are included:
- SDWAN questionnaire
- Gathering Customer requirements and finalizing them in the document
- Solution design document
- Network ready-for-use test plan
Package's Phases
Configuration Items:
- ✓ Customer requirements analysis
- ✓ Solution design preparation
- ✓ Test plan preparation
Implementation:
- ✓Controllers onboarding
- ✓Edges onboarding
- ✓Sdwan policy configuration
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Advanced SDWAN services (AAR, Cloud Onramp ...)
- ✓Test plan execution
- ✓Knowledge transfer
Deliverables:
- ✓Consultancy Support
- ✓Design Review or SDWAN Solution Document
- ✓Test plan Document
- ✓Knowledge transfer sessions
Package
Benefits
- ✓Improved network performancent
- ✓Cost savings
- ✓Enhanced security
- ✓Improved user experience
- ✓Better WAN network scalability
SDA/DNA Package – Starter
The SDA/DNA Starter Package includes consultancy support, documentation, implementation and training for internal Administrators within a single organic consultancy package
Overview
✓This package is designed to have a logical activity flow to ensure consistent results each time to install, configure, test and go live with your SDA/DNA solution.
✓We help organisations to deploy Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions, such as Cisco DNA. Besides, our team has extensive experience in integrating Cisco DNA Center with third-party systems.
✓At project completion, we will handover SDA/DNA solution to your staff (Knowledge transfer session included) or you can let Insoft Services support you with our Managed Services Solution.
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Appliances Applicable:
- ✓Cisco SDA Fabric Edge Node (Catalyst 9200,9300, 9400, 9500, Catalyst 3850, 3650)
- ✓Cisco SDA Fabric Border and Control Node (Catalyst 8000v, Catalyst 8200, 8300, 8500,Catalyst 9200,9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, Catalyst 3850)
- ✓Cisco ISE (3.1 patch 5) for SDA
- ✓DNA Center

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Appliances Applicable
SD-Access
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportThe following items are included:
- ✓Questionnaire
- ✓Gathering Customer requirements and finalizing them in the document
- ✓Solution design document
- ✓Network ready-for-use test plan
Package's Phases
Configuration:
- ✓Customer requirements analysis
- ✓Solution design preparation
- ✓Test plan preparation
Implementation:
- ✓DNAC installation
- ✓Device onboarding to DNAC
- ✓SDA application installation
- ✓SDA policy configuration
- ✓Test plan execution
- ✓Knowledge transfer
Deliverables:
- ✓Consultancy Support
- ✓Design review or Solution Document
- ✓Test plan Document
- ✓Knowledge transfer sessions
Package
Benefits
- ✓Solution design document or Design review document
- ✓Deployment support
- ✓Migration support
- ✓Network ready-for-use tests
- ✓Knowledge Transfer
DNS Security
DNS (Domain Name System) Security protects from online threats such as viruses, malware, ransomware, phishing attacks and botnets
Overview
DNS is an automated, ever-expanding system of servers that handles the translation of a hostname or domain name typed in the search bar of a browser or other applications to a specific IP address.
Use our security DNS servers for public resolve. Use in monitoring or blocking mode. No infrastructure changes. Able to provide off-network protection. Scheduled Reporting. Critical users/systems Alerting
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Appliances Applicable:
- ✓

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Appliances Applicable
IT Infrastructure Devices
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportThe following items are included:
- ✓
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Package's Phases
Configuration Items:
- ✓
Implementation:
- ✓
Deliverables:
- ✓
Package Benefits
- ✓Solution design document or Design review document
- ✓Deployment support
- ✓Migration support
- ✓Network ready-for-use tests
- ✓Knowledge Transfer
Data Center Design (ACI)
Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a comprehensive Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution
Overview
The building blocks of ACI are:
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Appliances Applicable:
- ✓Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- ✓Cisco Nexus 9000 switches - Spine and Leaf

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Appliances Applicable
IT Infrastructure Devices
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportThere are two topology options for ACI Fabric:
- ✓Two-tier fabric
- ✓Three-tier fabric with Tier-1 and Tier-2 Leaf switches
ACI Benefits
Network operation and deployment:
- ✓Fabric deployment automation - ACI provides capabilities for fast provisioning of new fabric, pod, leaf, or spine.
- ✓Centralized network management and monitoring
- ✓Multi-tenancy environment
- ✓Provides Layer 2 connectivity between pods and sites
Security:
- ✓Micro-Segmentation capabilities
- ✓Consistent security policies for physical and virtual servers, container services, and multi-cloud environments
Automation:
- ✓North-bound API for integration with other NetDevOps system
- ✓Ready for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach using integrations with HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible
Cloud:
- ✓Public Cloud integrations
- ✓Seamless connectivity between on-prem ACI and public Cloud ACI environment
Package's Phases
Configuration Items:
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Implementation:
- ✓
Deliverables:
- ✓
Package Benefits
- ✓Solution design document or Design review document
- ✓Deployment support
- ✓Migration support
- ✓Network ready-for-use tests
- ✓Knowledge Transfer
Data Center Design (NX-OS)
Data-center CLOS fabric architectures have become a standard design option for building new-generation data center networks
Overview
With Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) technology, a Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a standout tool for network virtualization overlay deployments in data center fabrics.
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Appliances Applicable:
- ✓

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Appliances Applicable
SD-Access
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportVXLAN provides the following benefits:
- ✓Multi-tenancy
- ✓Seamless VM Mobility
- ✓Overcomes limitation of 4K VLANs by using VNI (up to 16M VNIs could be used)
- ✓Efficient use of bandwidth - Leverages ECMP for optimal path usage over the underlay network
- ✓Flexibility: Workload can be extended anywhere. Any VLAN can be extended to any Leaf switch using VXLAN EPVN overlay over the L3 underlay. (Although it is worth mentioning that extending L2 is often a poor design choice.)
- ✓Scalability: Leaf-Spine architecture can be easily scaled up by adding new Spines/Leaves
Package Content
The Cisco NX-OS VXLAN Fabric design option recommends VXLAN EVPN NX-OS Multi-Site Architecture. Multi-Pod Fabrics are still valid designs and are supported by Cisco TAC, but you will not find them in the Nexus 9000 White Paper list https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/white-paper-listing.html.
Highlighted below are some of the Multi-Pod design challenges:
- ✓Scalability issue. Multi-Pod requires "full-mesh" End-to-End VXLAN tunnels between Leaf devices, which leads to a scalability limit of the number of leaf switches in a Multi-Pod environment
- ✓Single Overlay Control Plane. EPVN Updates are propagated End-to-End between Leaf devices
- ✓Single Underlay Control Plane. To provide VTEP-to-VTEP reachability, information about loopbacks must be propagated through the whole Multi-Pod domain
Multi-Site design solves the above challenges by providing the following:
- ✓Scaling by adding new VXLAN EVPN sites. L2 and L3 services can be extended between sites
- ✓Multiple isolated Underlay Control Plane domains. Loopback reachability is required only within sites; no need to advertise loopback IP addresses between sites
- ✓Multiple Overlay Control Plane domains. Overlay routing information is exchanged between Lead and BGW within the site and between BGWs of different sites
- ✓Multiple BUM replication domains. Propagation of BUM traffic can be controlled by configuring storm-control features on Border Gateway devices
Multi-site use-cases:
- ✓Scaling single Data Center
- ✓Data Center Interconnect (DCI) for VxLAN fabrics
- ✓DCI capability for the legacy 3-Tier DC networks via vPC Border Gateway devices
- ✓Migration from Legacy 3-Tier networks to VxLAN/EVPN via vPC Border Gateway devices
Package's Phases
Configuration:
- ✓
Implementation:
- ✓
Deliverables:
- ✓
Package Benefits
- ✓Solution design document or Design review document
- ✓Deployment support
- ✓Migration support
- ✓Network ready-for-use tests
- ✓Knowledge Transfer
NX-OS Fabrics Audit
VXLAN Fabrics configuration can be complex and error-prone, especially for manually configured fabric

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportOverivew
A long list of protocols and features are involved in fabric operation, BGP, OSPF, BFD, PIM, STP, VPC, LACP, and NVE, for example. Fine-tuning these protocols can be tedious and cumbersome.
Over the years, Insoft Services Engineering Team has been helping customers configure and optimize their fabrics using the Cisco NX-OS VXLAN EVPN solution.
We have run fabric audits which helped customers to:
- detect configuration errors that could result in fabric downtime in case of a single- failure scenario
- speed up convergency times
- adjust fabric configurations to best practices
- adjust configuration across devices to a single golden template
- optimize traffic flows
- scale VxLAN fabrics better
Package Benefits
- High-Level Design
- Low-Level Design
- Product workshops
- Deployment
- Migration
- Configuration
- Verification & Validation
- User Acceptance Testing
- Knowledge Transfer
- Upgrade
- Patching Security Vulnerabilities
- Implementing New features
- Log management
- Health Monitor
Our expertise:
We create Cisco Consultancy Packages, which will meet the requirements of your business.
Get ahead of the game with Cisco consulting services to address potential risks, plan proactive problem solving and improve the overall health and safety of your operations.
Our experienced Cisco professionals are ready to help you to support your business.
Cisco Automation (ACI)
Cisco ACI was built with automation from the very beginning.

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportOverivew
It does not use CLI to configure the switches; switch configurations are pushed to switches from the APIC controller via API calls. APIC controller has North-Facing REST API, which developers can use to automate ACI tasks.
The most popular ACI Automation tools as of now are:
- Red Hat Ansible. There is the Cisco ACI Galaxy collection, which provides modules for configuring different policies of ACI https://galaxy.ansible.com/cisco/aci
- Hashicorp Terraform. Cisco and HashiCorp have worked together to deliver the ACI Provider for Terraform: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/CiscoDevNet/aci/latest/docs
These tools allow developers to abstract from low-level ACI API details and focus on describing ACI policies through already developed Ansible modules or Terraform resources.
The modern approach to infrastructure automation is Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC is the method of defining and provisioning infrastructure using definition files containing code. IaC applies software development methods such as version control, review, testing, and CI/CD to the infrastructure and networking world.
The benefits of implementing the IaC approach with ACI are:
- Increase the speed of deployments
- Reduce the chance of configuration errors
- Improve configuration consistency
- Enhance visibility and logging of configuration changes
Package Benefits
- High-Level Design
- Low-Level Design
- Product workshops
- Deployment
- Migration
- Configuration
- Verification & Validation
- User Acceptance Testing
- Knowledge Transfer
- Upgrade
- Patching Security Vulnerabilities
- Implementing New features
- Log management
- Health Monitor
Our expertise:
We create Cisco Consultancy Packages, which will meet the requirements of your business.
Get ahead of the game with Cisco consulting services to address potential risks, plan proactive problem solving and improve the overall health and safety of your operations.
Our experienced Cisco professionals are ready to help you to support your business.
Cisco Automation (NX-OS Multi-Site Fabrics)

Price
Price Upon Request
Delivery Mode
Remote
Appliances Applicable
Fortigate 40-F
Support Included
8*5 Remote SupportOverivew
Network automation is becoming a mandatory part of the data center network, even for small to medium enterprises, for the following key reasons.
- The number of manageable devices in the network is growing and with this comes the common trend among professionals to favor the use of pizza box switches over big, modular switches
- Device configuration size and complexity increase
- The number of configuration changes has been increasing
Listed below are the major benefits of automation:
- reduced risk of human errors
- accelerated new services delivery
- reduced workload for network administrators
- configuration-compliance across devices
- configuration testing and validation before deployment
At the forefront of the modern approaches to infrastructure automation is the DevOps Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC is the non-manual process method of defining and provisioning infrastructure using codes instead. IaC applies software development methods such as, but not limited to, version control, review, testing, and automation to the infrastructure and networking world in a bid to improve and optimize processes and, thus, speed up the release of a product.
NX-OS fabrics automation options
With NDFC
For the customers who choose to build their data center network on Cisco Nexus 9000 switches with NX-OS operating system onboard, Cisco provides a ready-to-go automation platform: the Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), previously known as the Data Center Network Manager (DCNM).
Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller runs on top of the Nexus Dashboard (ND) cluster. ND is a platform to run data center-related applications by Cisco - NDFC, ACI NDO, Nexus Insights, and Network Assurance Engine. It also supports the installation of 3rd party apps which were approved by Cisco. Under the hood, ND is a Kubernetes cluster with master and worker nodes.
The Nexus Dashboard cluster form factors are:
- physical servers (UCS nodes)
- virtual machines (ESXi, KVM)
- bare metal Linux (RHEL)
- cloud (AWS/Azure)
While Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller provides a nice GUI, it could be laborious and error-prone when configuring new services in the Fabric.
Cisco provides two main instruments to automate an NDFC configuration:
- DCNM Ansible Galaxy Collection (https://galaxy.ansible.com/cisco/dcnm)
- DCNM Terraform Provider (https://registry.terraform.io/providers/CiscoDevNet/dcnm/latest/docs)
In this case, Ansible or Terraform is used to automate NFDC via REST API. The NDFC itself is responsible for configuring Nexus devices via SSH.
Without NFDC
The Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller is an optional tool for fabric automation. If the networking team decides to operate NX-OS Fabric without NDFC, the most popular automation options are still the same: Ansible and Terraform. But in this case, these tools will configure the switches directly.
Here are the links to the Ansible Collection and Terraform Provider for the NX-OS:
- NX-OS Ansible Galaxy Collection (https://galaxy.ansible.com/cisco/nxos)
- NX-OS Terraform Provider (https://registry.terraform.io/providers/netascode/nxos/0.3.22)
Package Benefits
- High-Level Design
- Low-Level Design
- Product workshops
- Deployment
- Migration
- Configuration
- Verification & Validation
- User Acceptance Testing
- Knowledge Transfer
- Upgrade
- Patching Security Vulnerabilities
- Implementing New features
- Log management
- Health Monitor
Our expertise:
We create Cisco Consultancy Packages, which will meet the requirements of your business.
Get ahead of the game with Cisco consulting services to address potential risks, plan proactive problem solving and improve the overall health and safety of your operations.
Our experienced Cisco professionals are ready to help you to support your business.
Consult our SMEs
Our Subject Matter Experts will be happy to provide you with relevant and proven solutions that will accelerate your deployment at a reduced cost and with risks managed, thereby establishing a reliable infrastructure from which to grow your business.

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