In SD-WAN, which management components orchestrate cloud-bound traffic policies for multi-cloud connectivity?

• A. vBond and Cloud OnRamp
• B. Edge devices only
• C. Third-party controllers
• D. vManage and vSmart

Answer: (D)

In SD-WAN, central policy creation and distribution to the edge devices are handled by the management and control plane components. vManage provides the centralized interface to author and store policies for how traffic should be steered, including cloud-bound traffic to multi-cloud destinations. vSmart acts as the control plane that distributes those policies to all edge devices and enforces routing decisions based on them, ensuring consistent and dynamic paths for traffic headed to cloud services.

vBond focuses on onboarding and authenticating devices, not policy orchestration, so it doesn’t manage cloud-bound traffic policies. Edge devices themselves only execute policies pushed from the control plane; they don’t orchestrate multi-cloud policies on their own. Third-party controllers aren’t part of Cisco SD-WAN’s built-in policy orchestration model. Cloud OnRamp helps optimize connectivity to cloud providers but is not the component that centrally orchestrates cloud-bound traffic policies.