Which characteristic applies to a traditional WAN solution but not to a Cisco SD-WAN solution?

Traditional WAN deployments often involve manual configuration of each device across many sites, requiring significant time and effort for provisioning, leading to lengthy installation times.

Centralized reachability, security, and application policies are key benefits of Cisco SD-WAN, which simplifies management and enforcement across the network, unlike traditional WANs.

Cisco SD-WAN aims for low complexity and increased overall solution scale through automation and centralized control, whereas traditional WANs often become complex and difficult to scale.

Cisco SD-WAN inherently operates over DTLS/TLS authenticated and secured tunnels to ensure secure communication, a feature that requires extensive manual setup and is not intrinsic to traditional WANs.