Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND) v2.0

What you’ll learn in this course

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.

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Duration

  • Instructor-led training: 2 days in the classroom with hands-on lab practice
  • Virtual instructor-led training: 2 days of web-based classes with hands-on lab practice

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

This course earns you 12 Continuing Education credits towards recertification.

Who should enroll

  • Enterprise network system installers
  • System integrators
  • System administrators
  • Network administrators
  • Solutions designers

Technology areas

  • Networking
  • Software-defined networking

Course details

Objectives

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

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)

Outline

  • Cisco SD-WAN Solution Components
  • Cisco SD-WAN Network Deployment
  • Cisco SD-WAN Configuration Management
  • Cisco SD-WAN Overlay Routing
  • Cisco SD-WAN Policies

Lab outline

  • Manage and Monitor Cisco SD-WAN Components
  • Deploy and Verify Cisco SD-WAN Edge Routers
  • Deploy Cisco SD-WAN Edge Configuration
  • Implement Cisco SD-WAN Overlay Routing
  • Deploy Cisco SD-WAN Policies

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