Continuing Education Credits: 40

The Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD) training deepens your knowledge of designing enterprise networks.

Topics covered include enterprise network design, including protocols and media for wired and wireless networks, SD-Access, VPN, Quality of Service (QoS), IPv6, and network programmability.

Associated Certification: CCNP Enterprise

Associated Exam: 300-420 ENSLD

Course Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Design Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design a network based on customer requirements
• Design Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing for the enterprise network
• Describe the different types and uses of Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) address families
• Describe BGP load sharing
• Design a BGP network based on customer requirements
• Decide where the L2/L3 boundary will be in your Campus network and make design decisions
• Describe Layer 2 design considerations for Enterprise Campus networks
• Design a LAN network based on customer requirements
• Describe Layer 3 design considerations in an Enterprise Campus network
• Examine Cisco SD-Access fundamental concepts
• Describe Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
• Design a Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) Campus Fabric based on customer requirements
• Design service provider-managed VPNs
• Design enterprise-managed VPNs
• Design a resilient WAN
• Design a resilient WAN network based on customer requirements
• Examine the Cisco SD-WAN architecture
• Describe Cisco SD-WAN deployment options
• Understand Cisco SD-WAN – NAT and hybrid design considerations
• Design Cisco SD-WAN redundancy
• Explain the basic principles of Quality of Service (QoS)
• Design QoS for the WAN
• Design QoS for enterprise network based on customer requirements
• Explain the basic principles of multicast
• Explore multicast with PIM-SM
• Designing rendezvous point distribution solutions
• Describe high-level considerations when doing IP addressing design
• Create an IPv6 addressing plan
• Plan an IPv6 deployment in an existing enterprise IPv4 network
• Describe the challenges that you might encounter when transitioning to IPv6
• Design an IPv6 addressing plan based on customer requirements
• Describe Network APIs and protocols
• Describe Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), and Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol (RESTCONF)

Target Audience

• Network design engineers
• Network engineers
• System administrators

Course Prerequisites

Before taking this offering, you should have:

• Understand network fundamentals
• Implement LANs
• Implement LAN connectivity