Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment

Engineers involved in the implementation of a Cisco SD-WAN environment.

After completing 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 aide 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.

Attendees should meet the following pre-requisites:

• Strong understanding of enterprise wide area network design
• Strong understanding of routing protocol operation, including both interior and exterior routing protocol operation ROUTE and TSHOOT Recommended
• Familiarity with Transport Layer Security (TLS) and IP Security (IPSec) - SENSS Recommended

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

• Overlay 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
• Smart Policy Operation and Construction
• Forwarding and QoS Overview
• Configuring and Monitoring QoS Forwarding

Labs

• Lab 1: Manage and Monitor SD-WAN Components
• Lab 2: Deploy and Verify SD-WAN vEdge Routers
• Lab 3: Deploy SD-WAN Templates
• Lab 4: SD-WAN Overlay Routing
• Lab 5: SD-WAN Policies