From the course: Implementing Cisco Software-Defined Wan (SD-WAN) for your Enterprise and Cloud
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From the course: Implementing Cisco Software-Defined Wan (SD-WAN) for your Enterprise and Cloud
Introduction
- Hello, and welcome to Implementing Cisco Software-Defined WAN for your Enterprise and Cloud video course. My name is Brad Edgeworth, and I'll be an instructor for this video course. I'm a technical solutions architect for SD-WAN at Cisco. I have two CCIEs, and I'm also a Cisco Press Author. Now, Cisco's SD-WAN solution has been enabling enterprises to connect users to their applications securely over almost any transport, regardless of where the data resides, the branch, the data center, colo facilities, or even cloud providers. Now, in addition, Cisco's SD-WAN solution has intelligence to ensure that the network path chosen will meet the needs of the individual applications. And all of this comes complete with a centralized management solution to simplify your WAN and reduce the amount of time that you spend connecting your new networks, as well as maintaining 'em on a day-to-day basis. It also helps keep you from those 3:00 a.m. phone calls. Now, this video course will prepare network engineers and architects that want to learn about Cisco's SD-WAN solution so they can design and deploy it with success. Now, almost every task has a live demonstration, and also the content was made to help those that want to take the Cisco Certification Exam Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions 300-415, I make sure to display the configuration changes and review the command sent to the devices, some of which might actually show up on the exam. Now, I've also taken and passed this exam, and this video course has approximately 25 hours of content spread across 14 lessons, and here's a quick breakdown of those lessons. Lesson 1's going to provide an overview of the Cisco SD-WAN solution with a focus of the benefits and common use cases that organizations will use Cisco SD-WAN for. I then talk about key terminology and technical components so that we can talk about control plane and data plane communication. And I end this lesson with a demonstration of the vManage user interface. Now, Lesson 2 focuses on the controller and their deployment. I'll talk about hosted solutions as well as running your own on-premise controllers. And the rest of the lesson focuses on learning how to deploy on-premise controllers. Now, Lesson 3 focuses on the configuration of the WAN edge devices. Some network engineers think this is one of the hardest topics to understand, but don't worry. I'm going to provide an overview of how the configuration is actually going to occur. We'll talk about the actual overview as far as the architecture, and then we're going to go through actual live demonstrations of creating new feature and device templates to bring up an SD-WAN environment in preparation for Lesson 4. Now, Lesson 4 is going to cover the three techniques for deploying your WAN edge devices and attaching 'em to the Cisco SD-WAN fabric. I explained the process for migrating devices from autonomous mode to the Cisco-managed SD-WAN mode. I'll also talk about how we could do configuration of virtualized devices. Now also, Lesson 5 is about software management. I talk about software repositories and how you can upgrade your controllers and edge devices with that. Now, Lesson 6 involves my favorite subject, routing. I'm going to provide a deep dive on how OMP advertises network prefixes to all the edge devices, and I'm going to walk through the configuration of static routes, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and I'm not done, multicast routing. Now, Lesson 7 is about SD-WAN policies. It's one of the largest lessons in the video course. I'm going to provide you with an overview of the different types of policies, and then we'll start off with a simple ACL and move on to routing policies, and then move into centralized policies, where we can start to modify typologies or manipulate traffic flows. The last topic of this lesson is on application-aware routing, which focuses on sending traffic across the transport that meets the needs of application based upon the amount of packet loss, jitter, or latency requirements for that application. And this can be configured at a application by application level. Now, Lesson 8 is about providing redundancy and ensuring availability of the WAN. It's a critical topic, and we're going to kick it off by talking about TLOC extensions, which provides a method of connecting multiple transports to multiple routers by sharing the connection to the service provider. And the lesson's also going to cover first hop redundancy protocols, like Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol and Hot Standby Router Protocol. Lesson 9 is going to inform you about SD-WAN monitoring capabilities. So we'll talk about syslogs and alarms and SAP and NetFlow. And then I'm going to talk about SD-WAN troubleshooting tools. Now, some of those you may have already been exposed to, but we're going to also talk about some new tools along with that. And then we're going to end the lesson talking about how you could troubleshoot control point connections to your controllers. Now, Lesson 10 is going to be about connecting devices to the internet as well as the cloud. We're going to talk about network address translation techniques, and then I'm going to talk about how I can optimize a user experience to top cloud applications with Cloud OnRamp for SaaS. And then the other main component in this lesson involves providing connectivity into AWS or GCP or Azure. Now this can be done through direct tunnels, through virtual connect qvs deployed in their environment, or through a software-defined cloud interconnect provider, such as Megaport or Equinix. Now, Lesson 11 is going to be about SD-WAN security. We're going to start that off with talking about how we handle authentication for vManage edge devices. And then we're going to pivot and focus on the on-device security stack, starting with the application-aware enterprise firewall, and then move on to the other on-box security components. Lesson 12 is about quality of service. It's an essential component of network engineering. And I'm going to demonstrate how to configure QoS for SD-WAN. I'm then going to talk about other topics specific to tunneling, like Adaptive QoS and Per-tunnel QoS. And then we'll talk about packet loss protection mechanisms that are built into our solution to ensure traffic is received on unreliable links. The last two sublessons involve application quality of experience modules, where we talk about TCP optimization and how to reduce data that's set across links with data redundancy elimination. Now Lesson 13, centers on migration techniques for deploying SD-WAN in existing environments. And a central component to a quick, painless migration involves placing edge devices and centralized environments, like colo facilities and data centers. And then the last lesson is going to be talking about how Cisco continues to enhance their products' usability throughout its life. I'm going to provide a glimpse of the new method that Cisco's going to be using to manage edge device configurations. So that sounds like a lot of content to be talking about. Doesn't that get you excited? Well, let's get started.