The course trains you to design, deploy, configure, and manage your Cisco® Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution in a large-scale live network, including how to migrate from legacy WAN to SD-WAN components like vsmart, vmanage and vbond. You will learn best practices for configuring routing protocols in the data center and the branch, as well as how to implement advanced control, data, feature template, CLI templates , Hub and spoke policy and application-aware policies. The course also covers SD-WAN placement of controllers, how to deploy WAN Edge devices, and how to configure Direct Internet Access (DIA) breakout.
After taking this course, you should be able to:
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Describe the Cisco SD-WAN solution and how modes of operation differ in traditional WAN versus SD-WAN
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Describe options for Cisco SD-WAN cloud and on-premises deployment
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Explain how to deploy WAN Edge devices
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Review the Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) process and examine technical specifics for on-premises deployment
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Review the device configuration template and describe new features of device configuration templates
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Describe options for providing scalability, high availability, and redundancy
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Explain how dynamic routing protocols are deployed in an SD-WAN environment, on the service side and transport side
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Describe Cisco SD-WAN policy concepts, which includes how policies are defined, attached, distributed, and applied
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Define and implement advanced control policies, such as policies for custom topologies and service insertion
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Identify and implement advanced data policies
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Define and implement an Application-Aware Routing (AAR) policy
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Implement Direct Internet Access (DIA)
