Increasingly enterprises are adopting cloud services, with more than 50 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2014 according to the 2011 Cisco® Global Cloud Index. However, cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network, especially the enterprise WAN in delivering these services to remote and branch-office users. In order to meet these new requirements, Cisco introduces "cloud connectors" for enterprise routing platforms.
A Cisco Cloud Connector is a software component embedded in, hosted on, or integrated with enterprise routing platforms (the Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 [ISR G2] or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers) to enable or enhance a cloud service. Examples can be improvement of availability, performance, and security of cloud services the connector is embedded in Cisco IOS® Software, hosted on the router, or integrated with it, and it takes advantage of the network services of the platform for a specific cloud service or a group of cloud services.
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