Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND)

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

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

• 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)

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner should be able to meet these overall objectives:

• 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

Course 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:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

• Manage and Monitor SD-WAN Components
• Deploy and Verify SD-WAN vEdge Routers
• Deploy SD-WAN Templates
• SD-WAN Overlay Routing
• Smart Policies