Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SDU file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SDU to another file type
To convert SDU Files to another format, you need Cisco IOx or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to SDU
To convert other file formats to the "Cisco Device Package" file type, you need software like Cisco IOx or a similar tool.
About SDU files
The .SDU file extension primarily represents a Cisco IOx Application Deployment Package. It is utilized by Cisco Systems to deploy software applications onto edge computing devices via their APIC-EM (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module) system. In other cases, an .SDU file can be a QuickBooks Accountant's Copy, a Surreal Sound Container for older PC games, or an Arbin Battery Test Schedule for Arbin Instruments hardware. The main disadvantage of these formats is their highly proprietary and locked-in nature. A Cisco device package is useless outside a Cisco network setup. A QuickBooks Accountant's Copy requires an expensive Intuit QuickBooks subscription to open, and restricts business owners from modifying data while the accountant holds the file. Game sound containers and battery test schedules are rigidly locked to legacy or niche software. Users often need to convert these files to access the underlying data. For the Cisco IOx package, the best target format is ZIP, as standard archive utilities can extract the internal TAR and XML files. For QuickBooks files, the target must be a standard company file (QBW). These proprietary files are difficult to convert online because they lack open public specifications. Standard converters fail to process QuickBooks database schemas or Arbin hardware instructions. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, like the ZIP structure of the Cisco variant, viewing or extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SDU file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SDU file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Cisco IOx or similar software from the "Application Deployment Package" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to SDU, try Cisco IOx or another comparable tool in the "Application Deployment Package" category.
The SDU Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SDU converter.