What you’ll learn in this course
The Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (ENSDW) v1.0 course provides an overview of the Cisco® Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution and SD-WAN components. You will learn how to create, manage, and operate a secure extensible network using Cisco SD-WAN products. The course covers how to configure, operate, and monitor overlay routing in a secure extensible network. In addition, you will learn about policies and Quality of Service (QoS) in the SD-WAN overlay network.
The Cisco SD-WAN solution is a cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture that facilitates digital and cloud transformation for enterprises. Cisco SD-WAN significantly reduces WAN costs and time to deploy new services.
With Cisco SD-WAN, you can build a robust security architecture that’s crucial for hybrid networks and provides a strong policy framework.
How you’ll benefit
This class will help you learn to use Cisco SD-WAN to:
● Establish transport-independent WAN for lower cost and higher diversity
● Meet SLAs for business-critical and real-time applications
● Provide end-to-end segmentation for protecting critical enterprise compute resources
● Extend seamlessly into the public cloud
● Optimize the user experience for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications
Technology areas
● Networking
● Software-defined networking
Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
● Identify the various components and architecture of the Cisco SD-WAN solution
● Deploy vEdge routers in a secure extensible network
● Create templates to aid in the deployment and operation of the secure extensible network
● Configure and verify overlay routing in the secure extensible network
● Create simple policies to control traffic flow in the secure extensible network
Who should enroll
● Enterprise network system installers
● System integrators
● System administrators
● Network administrators
● Solutions designers
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
● Strong understanding of enterprise WAN design
● Strong understanding of routing protocol operation, interior and exterior
● Familiarity with Transport Layer Security (TLS) and IP Security (IPsec)
These Cisco learning offerings can help you meet these prerequisites:
● Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE)
● Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks (TSHOOT)
● Implementing Cisco Edge Network Security Solutions (SENSS)
Outline
● SD-WAN Solution Components
◦ SD-WAN Solution Overview
◦ SD-WAN Components
◦ Managing SD-WAN Components
● Secure Extensible Network Deployment
◦ Secure Control Plane Operation
◦ Secure Control Plane Deployment
◦ Secure Data Plane Operation
◦ Cloud Deployments and Redundancy
● SD-WAN Template Deployment
◦ Templates Overview
◦ Feature Templates
◦ Device Templates
◦ Attaching Devices to Templates
● SD-WAN Overlay Routing
◦ sOverlay Routing Overview
◦ OMP Route Advertisements
◦ OMP Route Redistribution and Network Segmentation
◦ Configuring and Verifying Overlay Routing
● SD-WAN Policies and QoS
◦ Policy Overview and Framework
◦ vSmart Policy Operation and Construction
◦ Forwarding and QoS Overview
◦ Configuring and Monitoring QoS Forwarding
Lab outline
● Manage and Monitor SD-WAN Components
● Deploy and Verify SD-WAN vEdge Routers
● Deploy SD-WAN Templates
● SD-WAN Overlay Routing
● Smart Policies