Course Description

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 16 Continuing Education (CE) credits toward recertification.

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

Closed Event

We can also run this course as a closed/private event exclusively for your team. For further details please call 0141 222 2227 or email us at info@elitetc.co.uk.

Target Student

• 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, 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)

Course Objectives

• 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.