Continuing Education Credits: 12 

Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND) v2.0 provides a comprehensive overview of the Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution and Cisco SD-WAN components and their deployment.

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.

Course Objectives

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

Target Audience

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

Course 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)

Certification

• Associated Certification: None
• Associated Exam: None