Cisco SDWAN Fundamentals

The Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND) v2.0 course provides a comprehensive overview of the Cisco® Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution and Cisco SD-WAN components such as vManage, vSmart and vBond.

You will learn how to deploy, manage, and operate a secure, programmable, and scalable SD-WAN fabric using IOS XE Cisco SD-WAN products. The course also covers how to configure, operate, and monitor overlay routing across the Cisco SD-WAN network. In addition, you will learn about data and control policies, and how to deploy Quality of Service (QoS) and Direct Internet Access (DIA) in the SD-WAN overlay network.

The course will allow you to earn 12 Continuing Education (CE) credits toward recertification.

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

After taking this course, you should be able to:

●   Identify the various network elements of the Cisco SD-WAN solution.

●   Deploy WAN Edge routers.

●   Create templates to aid in the deployment and operation of the Cisco SD-WAN network.

●   Configure and verify Cisco SD-WAN overlay routing.

●   Create simple policies to control traffic flow through the Cisco SD-WAN fabric.

●   Enterprise network system installers

●   System integrators

●   System administrators

●   Network administrators

●   Solutions designers

Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

●   Strong understanding of enterprise WAN design

●   Strong understanding of routing protocol operation, including interior and exterior routing protocol operation

●   Familiarity with Transport Layer Security (TLS) and IP Security (IPsec)

These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

●   Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)

●   Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR)

This course does not have an exam.