Cisco vEdge Cloud is a software router platform that supports an entire range of capabilities available on the physical vEdge router platforms. The vEdge Cloud router is offered as a virtual machine that can be deployed in the variety of private, public, and hybrid cloud computing environments. It is supported on all major hypervisor platforms. The software is also capable of using the AES-NI encryption offload technology available on most Intel platforms. AES-NI offers optimized IP security (IPSec) performance w hen using AES encryption algorithms. Deployment Use Cases The vEdge Cloud router targets the following main deployment use cases: 1. Extending SD-WAN overlay into public cloud environments 2. Virtualized WAN router.