This 3 Day Viptela training course is targeted to engineers and technical personnel involved in deploying, implementing, operating and optimizing Cisco SD-WAN solution (Viptela), both in enterprise and Service Provider environments, including advanced features for Multi-tenant deployment, QoS, application performance routing, configuration templates, control policies and troubleshooting common operating issues. The Cisco SD-WAN course is lab-intensive, and objectives are accomplished mainly through hands on learning. Students taking this Viptela training course should be familiar with Wide Area Networks (WANs) in a variety of ways, which can be found below. Ideal candidates for this course include engineering and planning teams who evaluate WAN evolution, personnel involved in SD-WAN Design, Implementation and Operation, and others.
The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
Familiarity with Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Describe why customers desire SD-WAN
Explain the basic components of Cisco SD-WAN
Describe use cases of SD-WAN
Describe management features of Cisco SD-WAN
Understand the business areas to leverage Cisco SD-WAN
*Course Cost listed does not include the cost of courseware or lunch. Course is subject to minimum enrollment. Course may run virtually as a Virtual Instructor-Led (VILT) VTEC Partner class if minimum enrollment is not met. Electronic Courseware.
For more details, please contact email: learn@vtec.org or call: 207.775.0244.
Know and understand Cisco’s SD-WAN concepts, features, benefits, terminology and the way this approach innovates common administrative tasks on today’s networks.
Differentiate and explain each of the building blocks of SD-WAN Solution
Explain the concept of “Fabric” and the different node types that conform it (Fabric Edge Nodes, Control Plane Nodes, Management Nodes and Orchestration Nodes)
Identify the roles and functions of vEdge, vSmart, vManage and vBond entities
Know and understand the Zero Touch Provisioning Model
Know and understand the Zero Trust Provisioning Model
Identify Overlay Management Protocol (OMP) as a key element of the SD-WAN solution and the role it plays for Control Plane setup
Understand segmentation of SD-WAN fabric, through the use of VPN’s (VRF’s)
Understand the role that templates have in SD-WAN solution, differentiate templates and know how to apply them
Differentiate Control, Data and Application Route Policies and know how they are used in SD-WAN
Identify and apply QoS mechanisms to SD-WAN fabric