Many organizations have embraced software-defined innovations such as the software-defined data center and the software-defined WAN, taking advantage of programmability and automation to simplify the management of their networks and other data center resources. What’s been missing, until recently, was a way to achieve the same benefits at the access layer of the network.

Cisco recently released a new major update to its Software-Defined Access solution; the release notes detail what’s new. In this post, I assume you are already familiar with the SD-Access solution and instead focus on a few of the enhancements I think are most exciting. Distributed Campus One of the major missing pieces from SD-Access…