By David Sloan, Solutions Architect
Explore four Cisco and Megaport Virtual Edge solutions that bring secure, high-performance networking closer to users and clouds.
Enterprises have quickly outgrown the constraints of legacy WAN architectures. As cloud and SaaS dominate and users grow more distributed, rigid infrastructure models—complete with backhaul-heavy designs and unpredictable internet performance—no longer work.
The integration between Cisco’s virtual networking and security portfolio and Megaport’s global private network offers the ultimate alternative: cloud-native agility with enterprise-grade performance, security, and control. With this integration, organizations place critical networking and security services closer to users, clouds, and data, without sacrificing visibility or governance.
With 96 Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) locations available worldwide, businesses can rapidly deploy Cisco-powered networking and security services exactly where performance matters most, accelerating time to value and enabling true global scale.
This blog explores four key solution pairings that transform your edge:
Megaport and Cisco Meraki vMX combine cloud-native simplicity with private, deterministic connectivity to modernize your WAN. With this joint solution, Meraki vMX, a virtualized SD-WAN and security appliance, is hosted directly on MVE – placing Meraki functionality inside Megaport’s global private fabric.
As a result, organizations can move beyond the limitations of MPLS dependency and unreliable internet-only VPNs.
Imagine a global enterprise with global branch offices and critical workloads split between AWS and Azure. By deploying a Meraki vMX on MVE, the organization creates a regional SD-WAN hub.
Branches connect using standard internet links, but from the vMX onward, application traffic is offloaded onto Megaport’s private network. The outcome is a hybrid model that delivers predictable performance for mission-critical workloads, without the operational burden of traditional private WAN.
The integration of Cisco Virtual Firepower Threat Defense (vFTD) and Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) delivers cloud-native security for distributed enterprises. Cisco’s next-generation firewall capabilities—deep packet inspection, intrusion prevention, and advanced malware protection—are brought directly to the edge of Megaport’s private backbone.
By hosting vFTD on MVE, organizations avoid the classic “security tax”: the performance degradation caused by backhauling traffic to centralized data center firewalls.
Consider an enterprise operating across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Traditional architectures often force all traffic through a centralized firewall chokepoint, harming application performance.
With vFTD deployed on MVE, the organization can establish regional security hubs. Traffic flows from the branch to the nearest MVE, is inspected locally by Cisco’s firewall, and then enters each cloud environment via private Megaport connectivity. Security becomes an enabler of performance – not an obstacle.
This deployment model also eliminates the need to deploy expensive, standalone firewalls in every cloud. With MVE, a single firewall instance can secure the entire cloud and internal network ecosystem.
This setup simplifies operations while significantly reducing infrastructure and licensing costs. Security becomes a performance enabler rather than an obstacle or a budget drain.
Cisco Catalyst 8000V (C8000V) paired with Megaport MVE offers a powerful solution for organizations requiring deeper routing control and architectural flexibility. C8000V is Cisco’s virtual edge router, delivering advanced routing, segmentation, encryption, and SD-WAN capabilities, while MVE provides the globally distributed infrastructure to host it inside Megaport’s private backbone.
When deployed on MVE, C8000V becomes a strategic regional WAN edge. Enterprises can dynamically connect to clouds, data centers, and partners using Megaport’s on-demand connectivity while having full control over routing behavior, segmentation, and policy enforcement using Cisco technologies.
A global enterprise standardizing on Cisco SD-WAN requires consistent connectivity across branches, multicloud environments, and external ecosystems.
By running C8000V Autonomous on MVE in key global locations, the business can establish highly available regional hubs that aggregate branch traffic and steer it across Megaport’s private network – improving performance, resilience, and architectural consistency.
The integration of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with MVE delivers a highly automated, globally scalable networking solution. By hosting Catalyst 8000V instances directly within Megaport’s private SDN, organizations effectively extend their SD-WAN fabric beyond the branch and into the middle mile of their network.
This allows application traffic to remain on private, low-latency infrastructure rather than traversing unpredictable internet paths.
A distributed enterprise connecting dozens of global branch offices to workloads in AWS and Google Cloud often struggles with performance when relying solely on internet-based VPNs.
By deploying Catalyst SD-WAN on MVE in regional hubs—such as Singapore, Frankfurt, and San Jose—the organization creates a private express lane. Branch traffic reaches the nearest MVE via a short internet on-ramp and remains on Megaport’s private backbone for the remainder of its journey. The result is reduced latency and jitter, improved application experience, and meaningful reductions in cloud egress costs.
Backed by 96 global MVE locations, the Cisco and Megaport partnership gives enterprises unmatched reach and agility, turning global infrastructure into a competitive advantage rather than an operational burden.
Across Meraki, Firepower, and Catalyst portfolios, the Cisco and Megaport partnership places intelligent networking and security services directly on a global private fabric.
For enterprises navigating multicloud complexity, global user bases, and increasing performance expectations, this approach delivers:
The future of networking is no longer about choosing between cloud agility and enterprise control. With Cisco and Megaport, organizations can confidently design for both.
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