- 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 your instructor for this video course.
I'm a technical solutions architect for SD WAN at Cisco.
I have two ccis and I'm also a Cisco press author.
Now, Cisco's SD WAN solution has been enabling
enterprises to connect users
to their application 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 them on a day-to-day basis.
It also helps keep you from those 3:00 AM 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 commands sent to the devices
some of which might actually show up on the exam.
Now, I have also taken and past 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 one's gonna 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 four.
I then talk about key terminology
and technical components so that we can talk
about control plane and data playing communication.
And I end this lesson
with the demonstration of the V managed user interface.
Now, lesson two 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 three focuses
on the configuration of the WAN edge devices.
Some network engineers think that this is one
of the hardest topics to understand, but don't worry.
I'm gonna 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 gonna go
through actual live demonstrations of creating new feature
and device templates to bring
up a SD WAN environment in preparation for lesson than four.
Now, lesson than four is gonna cover the three techniques
for deploying your WAN Edge devices
and attaching them to the Cisco SD one 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 can do configuration of virtualized devices.
Now, also lesson than five is about software management.
I talk about software repositories
and how you can upgrade your controllers
and edge devices with that.
Now, lesson six involves my favorite subject routing.
I'm gonna provide a deep dive
on how OMP advertises network prefixes
to all the edge devices.
And then I'm gonna walk
through the configuration of static routes
O S P F E I G R P B G P, and I'm not done multicast routing.
Now, lesson than seven is about SD WAN policies.
It's one of the largest lessons in the video course.
I'm gonna 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 topologies or manipulate traffic flows.
The last topic of this lesson is
on application where routing, which focuses
on sending traffic across the transport that meets the needs
of an application based
upon the amount of packet loss, jitter
or latency requirements for that application.
And this can be configured
at an application by application level.
Now, lesson eight is about providing redundancy
and ensuring availability of the WAN.
It's a critical topic, and we're gonna kick it off
by talking about T lock extensions, which provides a method
of connecting multiple transports to multiple routers
by sharing the connection to the service rider.
And the lessons also gonna cover first hot redundancy
protocols like virtual router redundancy protocol
and hot standby router protocol.
Lesson nine is going to inform you
about SD WAN monitoring capabilities.
So we'll talk about CIS logs and alarms and SDP and NetFlow
and then I'm gonna talk about SD WAN troubleshooting tools.
Now, some of those you may have already been exposed to
but we're gonna also talk
about some new tools along with that.
And then we're gonna end the lesson talking
about how you can troubleshoot control plan connections
to your controllers.
Now, lesson 10 is gonna be about connecting devices
to the internet as well as the cloud.
We're gonna talk
about network address translation techniques
and then I'm gonna 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
to virtual credit TVs deployed in their environment or
through a software defined cloud interconnect provider such
as Megaport or Equinex.
Now lesson 11 is gonna be about SD WAN security.
We're gonna start that off with talking about how
we handle authentication for V manage and edge devices.
And then we're gonna pivot
and focus on the on device security stack
starting with the application where enterprise firewall
and then move on to the other Obox security components.
Lesson 12 is about quality of service.
It's an essential component of network engineering.
And I'm gonna demonstrate how to configure
QS for SD WAN to.
I'm then gonna 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 sub lessons involve
application quality of experience modules.
Where we talk about TCP optimization
and how to reduce data that set across links
with data redundancy elimination now lesson
13 centers on migration techniques
for deploying SD WAN and existing environments.
An essential 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 gonna be talking
about how Cisco continues to enhance
their products usability throughout its life.
I'm gonna provide a glimpse in the new method
that Cisco's gonna 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.