Making SD-WAN Smarter With MCP: A Developer's Guide
Cisco, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
As SD-WAN developers, we often juggle various vendor portals, command-line interfaces, and API calls. What we need is a way to unify and streamline these communications and thus simplify integration.
Here's where Model Context Protocol (MCP) comes in, offering a unified interface that allows AI to interact seamlessly with any network infrastructure using only one method. This interface eliminates the need to learn distinct API syntaxes for platforms like Cisco vManage, VMware VeloCloud, or Silver Peak, enabling natural language commands instead.
How MCP works
MCP is a universal adapter that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to communicate directly with your SD-WAN infrastructure. Think of it as a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as a USB-C port allows devices to connect and communicate efficiently through a single interface, MCP facilitates seamless communication and contextual data exchange between AI models and SD-WAN infrastructure.